Sisterdale Farms — 310-Acre Hill Country Ranch

Sisterdale Farms

310-Acre Hill Country Estate · Guadalupe River · Boerne, TX

Sun study

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12:00 PM

Lat Lng

Sky & clouds

Sky style

Sky Pro look

Sky & sun Clouds

Cloud cover 45%

Drift speed 1.0×

Haze 6

Shadows

Strength 60%

Softness 0.50 m

Surface shading 25%

Light blocker α 0.35

Contact bias 0.15 m

Exposure · Scan 1 100%

White balance · Scan 1 0

Exposure · Scan 2 100%

White balance · Scan 2 0

Exposure · 3D mesh 100%

Map res

drop to 1024 for a smooth day sweep

Splat placement

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Scan

3-point align

Solve scale —

For each control point: click a feature on the REFERENCE (the moving splat hides itself), then the same feature ON the moving splat (shown solo). 2–3 pairs → Apply solves position + heading (+ scale if ticked) and reports the fit error. Esc cancels.

East (m) North (m) Up (m) Heading (°) Scale Up axis

Splat standing on its side or upside-down? Flip Up axis until it lies flat (drone scans are usually +Z), then fix Heading. 🖐 Drag to align: drag slides the selected splat on the ground · Shift-drag = height · Alt-drag = heading · arrows nudge 5 cm (Shift 25) · PgUp/PgDn height · , . heading 0.1° · Esc exits. Or type numbers below. Ranch first, then the house on top.

Hotspot pin

Click the house (recenters the orbit on it), then "Pin hotspot here" — the pin lands at the orbit center and dives to the other scene. Save view in each scene, then Copy full config to bake everything.

Trim

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Keep radius 400 m

Edge fade 35%

The keep-radius disc is centered on the site pin by default — and the ranch sits ~1.2 km from the pin. Click the splat (recenters the orbit), then this button, and a tight radius works. With scan 2 selected in Align, centering + sizing the house disc ALSO drives the carve: the ranch splat auto-hides inside it so the high-res replaces it exactly.

Section box

Box Clip tiles

Drag the colored discs to slide each face — red east, green north, blue up. "Hide inside" carves interior noise out instead of cropping.

Splat footprint ✂

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Click around the community on the map — splats outside the polygon disappear (both scans). Way tighter than the radius for odd-shaped sites.

Google-mesh cutout

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Cuts the Google mesh inside the polygon so the splat sits in a clean hole instead of z-fighting the satellite terrain. Draw it just inside the splat's good coverage.

Google-mesh cutout 2

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Cutouts active

A second, independent cutout (blue) for a separate area. "Cutouts active" toggles both.

Dollhouse

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Show mesh

Place the mesh with the Align panel — pick “Dollhouse mesh” in its Scan dropdown; the 🖐 gizmo, ⊹ 3-point and 👁 Solo all work on it. Up axis is +Z (MatterPak).

X-ray

Ground-floor cut height 3.30 m

Mesh inset below splat cut 0.75 m

Carve the house splat above the cut

Splat cut (wall stubs above the level cut)

Lower the house splat around the outline

Splat cut height — this level 2.20 m

Reach outside the outline 1.50 m

Fade band 0.30 m

The hollow removes the splat INSIDE the house outline; the splat's own exterior walls and eaves sit on/just outside it and poke up above the mesh cut as grey stubs. This lowers them: everything within the reach outside the outline and above the cut height fades out. Each level (Ground/Upper) keeps its own height; slide the reach to the end for “everywhere”. Off when the X-ray is off.

Interior shave (per side)

West (−X) 0.30 m

East (+X) 0.30 m

South (−Y) 0.30 m

North (+Y) 0.30 m

Shrinks the house outline inward on each side (mesh axes — the house is placed with heading 0, so these are true compass sides) and hides mesh outside it: strips the exterior wall skin and eaves so you look at the interior itself. Each edge of the outline uses the shave of the direction it faces. 0 = off.

“Roof off” hides the high-res splat above the chosen floor's ceiling and clips the mesh just below that (the inset keeps floor plates from poking past the fuzzy splat edge). Measured floors: ground slab 0.0 · ground ceiling ≈3.06 · upper plate 3.55 · top 8.8 (mesh metres).

Cleanup

Erase radius 0.60 m

Erase: click a stray fragment (window/door artefacts) — everything inside a sphere disappears; stack several, Undo the last. Hide atlas: click any part to hide its whole texture atlas — handy for exterior sweeps that got their own atlas. Both bake with Copy full config.

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