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Re: Heightfields in LDraw
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:01:37 GMT
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Michael Horvath wrote:
> I've been experimenting with importing terrain heightfields into
> LDraw.
A long time ago I wrote a terrain generator whose final output was a
BlockCAD file. The surface of the landscape was built up with 1x1 bricks and
tiles. I belive I also had the possibility to generate bricks all the way up
from the bottom, but removed it because too many parts made BlockCAD slow.
An example of a generated landscape viewed in BlockCAD can be seen here
(don't let the folder name fool you, TerraGen was not involded in this):
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/anders-isak/Terragen/image1.jpg
As BlockCAD can save in LDRAW format, it would be quite quick to get such a
landscape into an LDRAW editor.
I could probably find the sources (Delphi) and touch up the program a bit -
as I remember it stored the result in a hardcoded place on my
prev-prev-previous computer, and as it was quite some time ago, there were
probably a very small limit on the size of the landscape (maybe 64x64, I
don't remember).
Please let me know if you're interested.
--
Anders Isaksson
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) It could be nice if the tool switched between polygons and studs depending on the slope of the terrain. I like how some of the molded TLG baseplates aren't entirely covered by studs and have some empty spaces. -Mike (14 years ago, 30-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Heightfields in LDraw
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| I've been experimenting with importing terrain heightfields into LDraw. Here are the results: (URL) (One pair of triangles in the terrain mesh is equal to a normal LDraw baseplate in dimensions.) The steps I took: created the heightfield in Wilbur (...) (14 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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