Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the inside
of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.

Any chance Colefax's bend.inc could be used in this regard ?


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I think one of the better known heightfield tools / toolsets could map a
heightfield to a sphere and export the result as a POV-mesh. Unfortunately I
don't remember which one (I don't even remember the names of all of them,
but hey, *you* are the linkmaster ;-) Maybe it was HF-Lab?

Johannes.

Ken wrote in message <36AAD70E.114F71BA@pacbell.net>...
>Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the inside
>of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.
>
>Any chance Colefax's bend.inc could be used in this regard ?
>
>
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>Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the
inside
>of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.


You love Leveller, right? :) Wasn't there someone who wrote
a plugin for it to map heightfields to objects? I'm not
sure, but...


Julius

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I suspect you are thinking of John Beale's application which
does this.

There is also a macro which does the same thing which has been
publically released.

Dan

Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> I think one of the better known heightfield tools / toolsets could map a
> heightfield to a sphere and export the result as a POV-mesh. Unfortunately I
> don't remember which one (I don't even remember the names of all of them,
> but hey, *you* are the linkmaster ;-) Maybe it was HF-Lab?
> 
> Johannes.

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Darnit.... yeah...I can do it with my program which I never finished...
It is still a kludge (you need to convert the tgas to oct format first)
but I should be able to patch it to map interiors instead of exteriors
in very little time.  I'll try and get you a exe within 24 hours.

Steve


Ken wrote:
> 
> Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the inside
> of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.
> 
> Any chance Colefax's bend.inc could be used in this regard ?
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> tyl### [at] pacbellnet

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Julius Klatte wrote:
> 
> >Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the
> inside
> >of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.
> 
> You love Leveller, right? :) Wasn't there someone who wrote
> a plugin for it to map heightfields to objects? I'm not
> sure, but...
> 
> Julius

Yes Leveller can do spherical and IIRCC cylindrical HF's
in mesh export now. The thing is it does this externaly
and not internaly. I want the mountains or whatever terrain
pointing inward (inverted).

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Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> Darnit.... yeah...I can do it with my program which I never finished...
> It is still a kludge (you need to convert the tgas to oct format first)
> but I should be able to patch it to map interiors instead of exteriors
> in very little time.  I'll try and get you a exe within 24 hours.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the inside
> > of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.
> >
> > Any chance Colefax's bend.inc could be used in this regard ?
> >
> > --
> > Ken Tyler
> >
> > tyl### [at] pacbellnet


It there an easy way to convert tga's to .oct ? I'm unfamiliar with
this process.

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HF-Lab will do it.  Just load the tga and save as an oct... they are
huge files but I haven't implemented reading tga's yet...

Steve


Ken wrote:
> 
> Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> >
> > Darnit.... yeah...I can do it with my program which I never finished...
> > It is still a kludge (you need to convert the tgas to oct format first)
> > but I should be able to patch it to map interiors instead of exteriors
> > in very little time.  I'll try and get you a exe within 24 hours.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Ken wrote:
> > >
> > > Anybody have an idea how to map a height field to the inside
> > > of a sphere ? Preferably 360 degrees in all directions.
> > >
> > > Any chance Colefax's bend.inc could be used in this regard ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken Tyler
> > >
> > > tyl### [at] pacbellnet
> 
> It there an easy way to convert tga's to .oct ? I'm unfamiliar with
> this process.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> tyl### [at] pacbellnet

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Um, if leveller will do it, why don't you invert the height field and
map it to the exterior?  It should end up the same in the end shouldn't
it?

Steve

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Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> Um, if leveller will do it, why don't you invert the height field and
> map it to the exterior?  It should end up the same in the end shouldn't
> it?
> 
> Steve

If you invert the HF image that Leveller uses for height elevation
points all that will happen is that it will be a mirror of itself.
The elevations will still be positive and the terrain will still
be extruded outward from the sphere. Nice try.

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