Hi,

I'd like to use a Terragen terrain in a POV scene as a height_field, but I
wasn't able to find an indication on how to achieve this on the newsgroup.
Is there a [free] utility wich could do this,  or any other method ?
(OK, I didn't search too long, but I didn't find any answer on the first
couple of pages on google)

Thanks (and sorry if this was a stupid question :-P).

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> Hi,
> I'd like to use a Terragen terrain in a POV scene as a height_field, but I
> wasn't able to find an indication on how to achieve this on the newsgroup.
> Is there a [free] utility wich could do this,  or any other method ?

There's a Terragen BMP export plug-in here :
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Ejomeder/feo/index.html

World machine can import and export between Terragen and other formats.
http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/

(all solutions not tested by me...)

G.


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Gilles Tran wrote:

>There's a Terragen BMP export plug-in here :
>http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Ejomeder/feo/index.html
>
>World machine can import and export between Terragen and other formats.
>http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/
>
>(all solutions not tested by me...)
>
>G.

Both solutions tested by me & both work fine...

Highly recommend World Machine, since it can export POV .tga, and because it
has some really nice erosion & terracing tools.

RG

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gonzo wrote:
> 
> Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> >There's a Terragen BMP export plug-in here :
> >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Ejomeder/feo/index.html
> >
> >World machine can import and export between Terragen and other formats.
> >http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/
> >
> >(all solutions not tested by me...)
> >
> >G.
> 
> Both solutions tested by me & both work fine...
> 
> Highly recommend World Machine, since it can export POV .tga, and because it
> has some really nice erosion & terracing tools.

Leveller also has Terragen support and all kinds of nice erosion and terracing
tools - http://www.daylongraphics.com/

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You can also export is as RAW. Photoshop, if you've got it, can import
these.
Then just save them as TGA.

/Stefan

"SeeSchloss" <seeschloss_at_9online.fr> wrote in message
news:3f2845b8$1@news.povray.org...
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use a Terragen terrain in a POV scene as a height_field, but I
> wasn't able to find an indication on how to achieve this on the newsgroup.
> Is there a [free] utility wich could do this,  or any other method ?
> (OK, I didn't search too long, but I didn't find any answer on the first
> couple of pages on google)
>
> Thanks (and sorry if this was a stupid question :-P).
>
> _______________________________
> SeeSchloss - GPU.sf.net / Nye.free.fr
>
>

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3f2858d3@news.povray.org...
> There's a Terragen BMP export plug-in here :
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Ejomeder/feo/index.html
>
> World machine can import and export between Terragen and other formats.
> http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/

Thanks,  the problem with FEO is that it exports to 8 bit bitmaps and the
steps are too apparent, but World Machine exports to "Povray TGA16" (I
didn't think of it because I thought it couldn't import files, only make a
terrain and save it) and the result seems better.
And I also found another utility wich seems very useful to convert terrain
files, Wilbur (it can also import .ter and export .tga):
http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~jslayton/software.html

Now I only have to make the atmosphere, clouds, textures look like in
Terragen :-/

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