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Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 28 Jan 1999 23:37:40 GMT
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You could try Paint Shop Pro (5.01) from http://www.jasc.com
From my (really) quick trials, it seemed to be able to save 16-bit
PNG format. (it had 16Million colors)
-Lee.
Tim McSweeney wrote:
> > 8<----------------------------------------------------
> > Appendix F.5 Height Field Tips
> >
> > 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<----------------------------------------------------
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> 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.
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> > 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
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> 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
> :-)
--
Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc.
mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc
mailto://ljorgensen@uswest.ten <-- reverse ten
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| Lee Jorgensen wrote in message <36B0F4C4.CFAAD57D@u...st.net>... (...) Yeah, I've got the fully paid for paintshop pro 5.0 as well. but tis doesn't support 16bit grayscale images, only 8bit, I guess the real problem is with pov-ray, the input format (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) 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. (...) Ok I found it, It's downloading slowly. I'll try it out but it still looks like it (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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