Creating mountains?
17-Dec-94 01:21:46
Sb: #142259-Creating mountains?
Fm: Kyle J. McKisic 75542,363
To: David Gould 100424,2533
Hi David,
<<I've designed a mountain exactly how I want it. >>
Choosing a software package for this, kind of depends on how you have
designed your land. Vista Pro can import a grayscale .pcx file as
elevation data. The DISPLACE ipas routine will take a grayscale
image an displace your geometry according to dark and light values of
the bitmap. Or, better yet, if you designed it in another 3D
package, you could export a .dxf file and load it directly into 3ds.
There is a .dem (Vpro's file format) to .3ds file converter out there,
but I think it only converts .dem files of size 128×128.
Personally, I use Vista Pro, export the .dxf file and paint my own tex
maps for use in 3ds.