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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: Quiet109 on March 16, 2001, 02:38:00 AM

Title: Topography
Post by: Quiet109 on March 16, 2001, 02:38:00 AM

Is it possible to turn a topographical map into a terrain with the TE?

How and to what difficulty?

Tips welcome.

Title: Topography
Post by: LLv34_Camouflage on March 16, 2001, 02:54:00 AM

Yes, quite easily.  Download AKWabbit's BMP2MAP editor.  It will do a 512x512 mile terrain out of a 1024x1024 greyscale image.  Black is 0 elevation which means water, white is the highest elevation.  You can define the highest elevation value in the editor. So, make a 1024x1024 greyscale image of your topographic map and import it.

You can find BMP2MAP on the HTC download page.

Good luck!

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Title: Topography
Post by: Quiet109 on March 16, 2001, 03:32:00 AM

<img>http://quiet109.homestead.com/files/terrQ001.JPG</img>

***EDIT***"Check this out ^^^^^^ ***EDIT***


thanks camo...will do.

quiet109

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Title: Topography
Post by: jihad on March 16, 2001, 05:39:00 AM

Use the [] instead of <> to display images.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

 (http://quiet109.homestead.com/files/terrQ001.JPG)

Title: Topography
Post by: Superfly on March 16, 2001, 10:57:00 AM

Is that a photo, or did you do that in the TE?

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Title: Topography
Post by: Quiet109 on March 16, 2001, 02:16:00 PM

thanks jihad, forgot bout that.

Superfly, made that in MSpaint...
Created water and added land from the TE files. No realistic photos involved.

Title: Topography
Post by: Zigrat on March 16, 2001, 05:02:00 PM

is that a water texture???? it looks  a frigging mazing!

Title: Topography
Post by: Quiet109 on March 17, 2001, 01:55:00 AM

The bpm2map program keeps giving me runtime errors left and right, so i'll leave that alone for a while.

And the mapmaker is a read my code, then try your luck program.I'll have to give it some time later.

Still no luck with AH's TE (joystick dont wanna cooperate with the program).

Back to work...

Quiet