POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : bicubic patch editor : Re: bicubic patch editor Server Time
12 Apr 2025 16:16:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bicubic patch editor  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 31 Mar 2025 11:00:00
Message: <web.67eaacd941fe044d97b426e25979125@news.povray.org>
"gulino" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> I want to make a plain like this image, I think heightfields will not work
> because it's for mountains. I am not sure how many patches but for sure more
> than one. It would be nice if there is a program that for example can make these
> and give me the value of the points because it seems very hard doing by hand

I would think that a heightfield would be perfectly fine for that.

You can model anything from a perfectly flat plane to a very rough mountainous
terrain with a detailed enough heightfield.

But if you want to do the Bezier patches - that's a topic we can get into in
more detail.

- BW


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