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29 Jul 2024 02:23:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Generating huge world landscapes  
From: Leroy
Date: 27 Jan 2007 00:39:27
Message: <45BAE39A.1040809@joplin.com>
Alp wrote:
> 
> What i found out already:
> 1) I think i need a good Heightfield generator that allows me to specify
> some parameters and generates nice landscape hf-descriptions. Terrabrush
> seems to be nice, it also supports 16-Bit Grayscale Export, but i guess it
> lacks for my need to specify some basic data of the world. And it supports
> Maps up to a size of 2048x2048 which could be too small. I found also
> Terraformer, HF-Lab/Gforge, Wilbur, Genesis IV, Leveller Demo, Terrain
> Maker, World Machine and surely Terragen. But none of them seem to fit my
> wishes. I would appreciate some hints here. A combination of tools wouldnt
> be a problem if it solves some problems though.
> 
I had the same problem with most of the height makers you listed above.
So I wrote my own.It use contour lines to make a height feild.
It's call LineMapper. It's at http://leroywhetstone.s5.com/
But I haven't tried it on truly huge height feild, So it might not help you.


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