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Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:14:20 GMT
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> 8<----------------------------------------------------
> Appendix F.5 Height Field Tips
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> Try using POV-Ray itself to create images for height fields:
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> camera { location <0, 0, -2> }
> plane { z, 0
> finish { ambient 1 } // needs no light sources
> pigment { bozo } // or whatever. Experiment.
> }
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> That's all you'll need to create a .tga file that can then be used as
> a height field in another image!
> 8<----------------------------------------------------
Yeah I had seen that, but I don't want a ranom landscape, I want to use one
I've sculpted using photoshop, the layout of the mountains etc is important.
> There are also other programs available, I have been playing a little
> with
> TERRAIN MAKER by Eric Jorgensen. It's an old DOS program, but it can
> Search around a bit, and I'm sure You will find it, otherwise, mail me
Ok I found it, It's downloading slowly. I'll try it out but it still looks
like it only creates 8-bit heightfields and I really need 16-bit (at least
:-)
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| You could try Paint Shop Pro (5.01) from (URL) my (really) quick trials, it seemed to be able to save 16-bit PNG format. (it had 16Million colors) -Lee. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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| Tim McSweeney skrev i meddelandet ... (...) lugnet.cad.rendering (...) want to (...) primitive (...) format for (...) as a 255 (...) to (...) but (...) any (...) From the POV-ray documentation: 8<---...--- Appendix F.5 Height Field Tips Try using (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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