Matthew Pace <mat### [at] lycoscom> wrote in message
news:mat### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> Hello,
>    Landscapes are what i really want to eventually master in POV, and i
> know this is going to be a long, tedious journey.  My question is, what
> tools do you generally use for heightfields?  I have GIMP, every Adobe
> tool, and Macromedia freehand, so I am sure I can replicate and
> personalize any tricks and techniques you are willing to share.  I
> checked out Gilles Tran's oyonale website, very beautiful landscapes
> there.  Right now I am using Photoshop 7 to make black and white
> difference clouds.  Those were too steep and jagged, so I used some
> Gaussian Blurring, and it was slightly improved, but still not quite up
> to par.  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> ~Matt


There are several 3rd party tools available specifically to create
landscapes.

World Machine ( http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/ ) is a good
one that creates POV .tga files.

RG

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