Hello,

I'm looking for a simple height field paint program that will export to
a 16-bit greyscale file (such as .pot, .tga, etc. as in the docs.)  I've
looked and looked but the only programs I've found that export 16-bit
greyscale images are fractal programs.  All that would be necessary in
the program would be a simple airbrush tool so that I could paint the
elevations with smooth transitions.  If anyone knows of such a program
please let me know!

Thank you,

Andrew Clinton

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Andrew Clinton wrote in message <3829E632.D0FD269D@ibm.net>...
>Hello,
>
>I'm looking for a simple height field paint program that will export to
>a 16-bit greyscale file (such as .pot, .tga, etc. as in the docs.)  I've
>looked and looked but the only programs I've found that export 16-bit
>greyscale images are fractal programs.  All that would be necessary in
>the program would be a simple airbrush tool so that I could paint the
>elevations with smooth transitions.  If anyone knows of such a program
>please let me know!


HF-Lab exports 16-bit PNG files, but it doesn't have any of the tools found
in a paint program.  I think the GIMP can save 16-bit PNG files, but I'm not
sure about this.

Mark

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Mark Wagner wrote:
> 
> Andrew Clinton wrote in message <3829E632.D0FD269D@ibm.net>...
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm looking for a simple height field paint program that will export to
> >a 16-bit greyscale file (such as .pot, .tga, etc. as in the docs.)  I've
> >looked and looked but the only programs I've found that export 16-bit
> >greyscale images are fractal programs.  All that would be necessary in
> >the program would be a simple airbrush tool so that I could paint the
> >elevations with smooth transitions.  If anyone knows of such a program
> >please let me know!
> 
> HF-Lab exports 16-bit PNG files, but it doesn't have any of the tools found
> in a paint program.  I think the GIMP can save 16-bit PNG files, but I'm not
> sure about this.
> 
> Mark

Yes, the GIMP can save 16-big PNG.  I wouldn't exactly call it a "simple
height field paint program", but it's more of a paint program than the
fractal programs.

-Mark Gordon

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Andrew Clinton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a simple height field paint program that will export
> to
> a 16-bit greyscale file (such as .pot, .tga, etc. as in the docs.)
> I've
> looked and looked but the only programs I've found that export 16-bit
> greyscale images are fractal programs.  All that would be necessary in
>
> the program would be a simple airbrush tool so that I could paint the
> elevations with smooth transitions.  If anyone knows of such a program
>
> please let me know!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Andrew Clinton

Hi Andrew,

not one with an airbrush tool, AFAIK, but with other powerfull smoothing
filters and other useful tools: Give a try lo LEVELLER, which you find
at
  http://www.daylongraphics.com/ .
There also is a trial version with limeted features, but the full
version regrettably isn't free.

ReVerSi

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I wish the demo where more useable. Also, when I downloaded the demo, on the
website all that was mentioned was that it didn't have support (I thought I
could use it like the full version), then when I was installing, it tells me
it isn't the same and that features are gone. Why don't they tell you the
whole truth on the site? Anyways, I need Leveller, and my parents won't
gimme a dime (especially for buying stuff in the States, since we haven't
had good experiences with that), so what can I do? Does anyone know of a
freeware equivalent? (Lemme guess: no, because then you'd be using that
one.)

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Thank you to all who replied,

Leveller looks great, although for now I wouldn't need this complexity in the
program.  Unfortunately I can't run GIMP without UNIX (I'm on Windows) although
this program looks appealing too!

I have found a decent alternative which is just making a regular 8-bit tga in a
paint program then running a free app called Smooth (in the links on this site)
on it to increase the resolution and depth to 16-bit while smoothing it out and
this has worked nicely for the task at hand.

Andrew C


TonyB wrote:

> I wish the demo where more useable. Also, when I downloaded the demo, on the
> website all that was mentioned was that it didn't have support (I thought I
> could use it like the full version), then when I was installing, it tells me
> it isn't the same and that features are gone. Why don't they tell you the
> whole truth on the site? Anyways, I need Leveller, and my parents won't
> gimme a dime (especially for buying stuff in the States, since we haven't
> had good experiences with that), so what can I do? Does anyone know of a
> freeware equivalent? (Lemme guess: no, because then you'd be using that
> one.)

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Andrew Clinton wrote:

>Thank you to all who replied,
>
>Leveller looks great, although for now I wouldn't need this
>complexity in the program.  Unfortunately I can't run GIMP
>without UNIX (I'm on Windows) although this program looks
>appealing too! 

The Gimp for Windows:
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/


Ingo

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