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Post by prodigy // Mar 19, 2007, 5:39pm

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Hi, anybody knows a soft or plugin to create a terrain from a picture??

Thanks!!

btw.. it must work or save a fileformat compatible with truespace 6 or 7 ;)

Thanks!!

Post by prodigy // Mar 19, 2007, 5:55pm

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by the way.. anybody noted many plugins from the caligari page are broken links???


http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts5/Plugins/free/default.asp?Cate=Free


Trueconez


tSXtrude :(


UVRip


and many otherS???? :rolleyes:

Post by W!ZARD // Mar 19, 2007, 6:36pm

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Shame about TSXtrude link - that's a handy little plug for doing exactly what you're talking about.


If you have Vue the terrain editor in Vue will create a terrain from a picture (bmp, tga, jpeg etc) which you can then edit using Vues terrain editor. Vue will export the terrain as a .COB mesh which you can import into tS and away you go. I find this method is quite flexible.


You may be able to use Bryce in a similar way.


Hope this helps

Post by trueBlue // Mar 19, 2007, 7:19pm

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Hi, anybody knows a soft or plugin to create a terrain from a picture??

Thanks!!

btw.. it must work or save a fileformat compatible with truespace 6 or 7 ;)

Thanks!!

Johny made tS7 script that does what you want.
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=730 (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=730)

Post by prodigy // Mar 19, 2007, 7:26pm

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THANKS TRUE AND WIZARD... :D


Wizard, i found the tsxtrude from an external link but doesnt work on 6.6 or 7.11 :(


Thanks for both to take time to reply!! :jumpy:

Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // Mar 20, 2007, 2:20am

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trueScape sounds like it might do the trick. Pretty much like having the Bryce terrain editor right inside trueSpace. It's on my dePak but I don't see it listed on the dePak page so whether it's missed from the list or not on there anymore I don't know. Don't have a link just for the standalone version.


Alternatively, have a look at trueDisplacement, that should do what you want. You can get it from the fab CK Game Factory here http://ckgamefactory.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tsxe/truedisp.html. It's also on the dePak and the dePak pages show it being used on a plane to generate the sort of thing you want rather than on a sphere on the CK pages.

Post by GraySho // Mar 21, 2007, 4:49am

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You can use terragen (http://www.planetside.co.uk) (free) with the firmament plugin to import bitmaps and export the terrain as .lwo file which can be read by tS. There's also a plugin to import terragen terrains into tS (U|V The I/O collection).

Post by prodigy // Mar 21, 2007, 5:35am

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Thanks Graysho :)

Post by chamaeleon // Mar 21, 2007, 5:59am

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 Just to add one more option, my ImageReader Python extensions has an example that uses my Mesher Python extension to create heightfield from a mandelbrot fractal image.


http://www.quantumchamaeleon.com/products.html


FWIW.. :)
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