3D Effect for Curved Road

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January 5, 2017
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Hello Adobe Community,

I am trying to create the illusion of depth by adding a 3D effect to a curved road I have illustrated. However, when I apply any of the 3D effects, the road becomes distorted. I also tried using the pen tool to accomplish this effect, but I am struggling to make it look seamless. Here is the road:

I want to draw lines straight down from the edges of each curve to make the road look like it's elevated.This is a rough example of what I'm going for using the pen tool:

Any suggestions would be extremely appreciated!

Best,

Tif

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Correct answer Tifhogan

I ultimately worked with the pen tool to achieve the effect I was look for.

Thank you all for your responses! Unfortunately the perspective grid and extrude effect were giving me very different results.

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TifhoganAuthorCorrect answer

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I ultimately worked with the pen tool to achieve the effect I was look for.

Thank you all for your responses! Unfortunately the perspective grid and extrude effect were giving me very different results.

Jeff Witchel, ACI

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The biggest problem with Extrude is the road cannot be 100% Black or it will be impossible to differentiate between the sides of the extruded road and the road itself. Try making the road about 60% Black. Please see attached.

Jeff Witchel, ACI

Community Expert

You could use 3D > Extrude for the second part of your request.

Jeff Witchel, ACI

Community Expert

I would suggest using Perspective Grid.

Draw the road flat as an object with two Strokes in the Appearance panel (a thick Black Stroke with a much thinner White Dashed Stroke on top)
With the flat road selected, go the the Object menu > Flatten Transparency to make the Strokes into Fills
Select the Perspective Grid tool (Shift + P) to turn on a grid.
Under the View menu, go Perspective Grid > One Point Perspective and choose the default.
Switch to the Perspective Selection tool (Shift + V)
Choose the bottom Plane in the Perspective widget by pressing 2
Click on your flat road and drag into perspective over the grid

Please see attached.