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#Landscape Maker?

    27-Aug-94 14:31:26
Sb: #120604-#Landscape Maker?
Fm: Mechadeus 71052,1575
To: Cyberdreams 71043,670
Brandon, Yeah, we've been using the displace IPAS to try and make landscpaes, but it is very time consuming to have to leave the program to edit the bitmap and come back in to re-loft. It seems not to be made with landscaping specifically in mind. Also, Vistapro and Bryce both map the finished mesh in a really easy way (except Vistapro makes only mathmatical texture at render time, which requires you to render an overhead view for a huge map). Looks like Bryce tiles maps. We tried Cybermesh within Photoshop to create DXFs, but it is limited to mesh only, and a little slow. If I saw Vistapro improve its renderer to Bryce quality, export/import lights, cameras, add antialiasing, raytraced surfaces, etc, we would jump on it. Eric @ Mechadeus