Hide Tool

site preparation made easy

Introducing your new best friend: the Hide Tool in VU.CITY

The Hide Tool is a huge update to to our previous Object Remover tool in VU.CITY, and has been developed to help set up sites correctly. It contains some of the most requested features of all time. You can remove trees, hide terrain, slice blocks of modelling and so much more.

Proposing change mainly starts with a blank canvas, our Hide Tool simplifies the site preparation process. Partially or fully clear elements within your site area to prepare it for early-stage “Create Tool” massings, visualising imported proposals, or even bringing entire masterplans into our city context.

While the majority of VU.CITY's features are compatible with the Hide Tool, please note the following:

Terrain can only be hidden in one overlapping plotted area at a time: If you have multiple plotted areas which overlap, and you choose to hide terrain in one of them, you can still hide terrain in another, but the terrain in the first plot will automatically reappear.
If multiple selection plots or groups contain the same content, only one of them can have its visibility settings activated simultaneously: This means that you can have overlapping plotted areas, several building groups that all encompass the same buildings, or even plotted areas that contain buildings already included in a building group. However, once this occurs, only one of those selection layers (with shared contents) can be toggled active at a time.
When you slice part of a building using plot selection, directly selecting its other half, or slicing its other half with a different plot, it is treated as shared contents, meaning the limitation noted above applies.
LOD4 buildings cannot currently be sliced: This may be addressed in future releases, based on user feedback.
Sliced buildings behave as complete (visible) buildings with the ZTV tool: We are hopeful that this will be repaired with the release of the Viewshed Tool. (The Viewshed Tool uses the latest optix code/library, while the ZTV tool does not in this release. It will be updated with Viewshed release).