I'm trying to come up with a landscape for a scene I'm working on, but I can't
seem to come up with anything suitable.  I've tried Terragen, World Machine,
and several other programs.

I have rather specific needs for my landscape, so, obviously, the best solution
would be to draw it myself, but I have no Idea how.

I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial
of some sort.

Regards,

ADB

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Hi Anthony

you may give TerrainMaker a try,
it's a quite old program (DOS-Vesa) but don't be scared off that
i used it to 'draw' landscapes in the old days...

http://www.ericjorgensen.com/html/tm.htm

Regards
Joerg


Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a landscape for a scene I'm working on, but I can't
> seem to come up with anything suitable.  I've tried Terragen, World Machine,
> and several other programs.
> 
> I have rather specific needs for my landscape, so, obviously, the best solution
> would be to draw it myself, but I have no Idea how.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial
> of some sort.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> ADB
> 
>

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:

> I have rather specific needs for my landscape, so, obviously, the best solution
> would be to draw it myself, but I have no Idea how.

You can use a rough manually drawn height field as an input to
World Machine and then smooth it and layer some random stuff on
to make it look more real as in

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C463bbad2%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=3

The input file was a simple low resolution b/w image, don't remember
what program I used to create it, might even have been Paint although
I'm not sure if it can write a grayscale format directly readable by
World Machine. Gimp will be fine, though.

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a landscape for a scene I'm working on, but I can't
> seem to come up with anything suitable.  I've tried Terragen, World Machine,
> and several other programs.
> 
> I have rather specific needs for my landscape, so, obviously, the best solution
> would be to draw it myself, but I have no Idea how.
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial
> of some sort.
> 

I know what you mean. I downloaded a lot of programs to make height 
feilds and never did get one I liked.
So... I made my own.
If you have windows 98 or better I have programs that make and modify 
height feilds. They are at:
  http://leroywhetstone.s5.com/Win_Programs.html
The height feild maker uses contour lines as a map. It gives you great 
control of the lay of the land.
I also have a program that modify height feild tgas.

Hope this helps!

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a landscape for a scene I'm working on, but I can't
> seem to come up with anything suitable.  I've tried Terragen, World Machine,
> and several other programs.

I haven't used it, but Geomorph looks very interesting:
http://geomorph.sourceforge.net/

It's specifically designed for "painting" your own heightfields.

However, it seems to be pretty much Linux-only (with a FreeBSD port). As
a Linux nut, that makes me a little happier than it really should. :-)

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

You know you've been raytracing too long when every computer upgrade you
have made in the past three years has been to accommodate more complex
images.
    -- Aaron Gage a.k.a Slartibartfast

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William Tracy wrote:

> Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>> I'm trying to come up with a landscape for a scene I'm working on, but I
>> can't
>> seem to come up with anything suitable.  I've tried Terragen, World
>> Machine, and several other programs.
> 
> I haven't used it, but Geomorph looks very interesting:
> http://geomorph.sourceforge.net/
> 

Very nice, been thinking about writing something like that but I guess I
don't need to now.

> It's specifically designed for "painting" your own heightfields.
> 
> However, it seems to be pretty much Linux-only (with a FreeBSD port). As
> a Linux nut, that makes me a little happier than it really should. :-)
> 

Don't feel too bad about it. Linux-only here too :)

-- 
Ger

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Ger <No.### [at] ThankYou> wrote:
> William Tracy wrote:
> > As a Linux nut, that makes me a little happier than it really should. :-)
>
> Don't feel too bad about it. Linux-only here too :)

hey!  we're mates!  and I know Jaime Vives Piqueres is onboard too! :)

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