Sisterdale Farms — 310-Acre Hill Country Ranch · 3D

Sisterdale Farms

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

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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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Which splat

Everything in this panel — radius, fade, bottom cut, footprint and the section box — belongs to the splat selected here, and is saved per splat. This is the same selection the Align panel uses, so changing it in either place changes both. Ranch is selected.

Keep radius 400 m

Edge fade 35%

Bottom cut off

Bottom softness 8 m

Bottom cut dissolves the UNDERSIDE of the splat — the capture's flat cut edge and the skirt of floaters hanging below the terrain. The number is metres below this scene's ground height where the dissolve starts, so smaller = cuts more. 0 = off.

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

0 pts

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

0 pts

Cutouts active

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

The property line

Draw outline Show inholding

Keep the camera on the property

The outline is the Kendall CAD parcel, drawn from public/listing/parcel.json. "Keep the camera on the property" fences the orbit target to that same polygon, so a pan can never leave the splat behind — the visible gold line is the limit. "Show inholding" adds the 2-acre parcel inside the ranch that is not part of it, in red.

Seam blending

Mesh edge dissolve 18 m

Stipple the band

The mesh cut is all-or-nothing per pixel — black hole or untouched — so the only way to soften it is to scatter the decision across a band. Stipple on dissolves it as fine noise; off gives a clean edge at mid-band, which is better where the splat above is solid and worse where it is thin. 0 m = the old hard cut.

Keep cut inside trim by 15 m

Cutting the mesh paints it black and assumes the splat covers the hole. Anywhere the cut reaches past the splat's own trim, nothing does — that is what black wedges over open ground are. This holds the cut that far inside the trim so it cannot happen.

Splat edge feather 40 m

Only applies once a Splat footprint polygon is drawn — the radius disc has its own Edge fade above. Ramps the footprint edge over this distance instead of ending on the straight line between two vertices, with the band wandering so it reads as coverage running out rather than as a drawn boundary.

Camera

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These are the rails every visitor rides on, saved per scene. Drag the view to where you want the limit, then press "from here" — the readout above always shows your live distance and tilt.

Zoom

Closest 8 m

Farthest 3500 m

Tilt

Highest — 0 is straight down 0°

Lowest (horizon) 88°

Both numbers are degrees away from straight down, which reads backwards at first: 0° = a full top-down bird's eye, 90° = dead level with the horizon. So "Highest" at 0 allows the plan view, and raising it forbids it. Keeping "Lowest" under 90 is what stops the camera tipping past level and turning the splat upside down.

Auto-orbit

Orbit this scene

Speed 3.0 °/s

Resume after 5 s

Spins around the orbit centre — click the splat first to put the centre where you want it. Any drag, scroll or key parks the spin for the resume delay, so it never fights the viewer. Negative speed reverses.

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 2.60 m

Upper-floor cut height 5.70 m

One horizontal plane per level, through BOTH layers: the mesh is clipped here and — while “same height as the mesh” is ticked below — so is the house splat. Heights are mesh-local metres above the ground slab.

Mesh inset below splat cut 0.00 m

Carve the house splat above the cut

Splat cut (horizontal, footprint only)

Cut the house splat around the outline

…at the same height as the mesh

Splat cut height — this level 2.60 m

Reach outside the outline 1.20 m

Fade band 0.25 m

A horizontal cut through the house splat, applied ONLY where the Matterport mesh is: the hollow clears everything inside the outline, and this takes down the splat's own exterior walls and eaves — everything within the reach outside the outline and above the cut height. The barn, the guest wing and the walled court are outside the footprint, so they keep their roofs. Untick “same height as the mesh” to drive the splat plane on its own (each level keeps its own height); slide the reach to the end for “everywhere”. Off when the X-ray is off.

Wall feather (dissolve inward) 0.55 m

In-law suite cut

Roof cut height 5.00 m

Reach outside the outline 2.40 m

Fade band 0.30 m

Wall feather 0.45 m

The gatehouse's own plane and edge — mesh-local metres, its slab sits at −0.6. Its eaves overhang a small plan, so its reach wants to be wider than the house's.

Cut contour line

Draw the contour along the cut

Line width 2.5 px

Lift above the cut 0.06 m

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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