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Angry Lawyer

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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #30 on: August 07, 2008, 01:05:59 pm »
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #31 on: August 07, 2008, 05:30:27 pm »
Any tips on making the mountains less spikey and jagged? They seem really exaggerated compared to the rest of the terrain. I've been playing with height range and scale but I'm really not happy with the results.
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #32 on: August 07, 2008, 05:43:01 pm »
Quote from: Fleeb on August 07, 2008, 05:30:27 pm
Any tips on making the mountains less spikey and jagged? They seem really exaggerated compared to the rest of the terrain. I've been playing with height range and scale but I'm really not happy with the results.

In whatever image editor you use you could play with the levels or the brightness/contrast and make the height map a little less extreme, then import it. Using the height range/scale in Terragen is the only way I know how to mess with the elevations and keep it from getting too jagged.
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #33 on: August 07, 2008, 06:14:39 pm »
That's a good idea. Also, height scale % on the import window can be turned down. 50% or so looks decent to me..
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #34 on: August 07, 2008, 06:27:14 pm »
Yeah, I usually go about 50% or a little more.
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #35 on: August 10, 2008, 05:30:49 pm »
Can I do the same shizzle in vue 6?
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2008, 05:35:57 pm »
Quote from: Angellus on August 10, 2008, 05:30:49 pm
Can I do the same shizzle in vue 6?

If it supports greyscale height maps, then yes.

I've used it in Maya and Max and Terragen.
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #37 on: August 10, 2008, 05:56:36 pm »
Quote from: Davion on August 10, 2008, 05:35:57 pm
Quote from: Angellus on August 10, 2008, 05:30:49 pm
Can I do the same shizzle in vue 6?

If it supports greyscale height maps, then yes.

I've used it in Maya and Max and Terragen.
going to try that out soon then :) thanks for resp.
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #38 on: September 08, 2008, 09:33:44 pm »
Woah, somehow I missed these new export options. I finally have an excuse to install Bryce 4 again, yay! Now I just gotta find the CD...

Yeah, I actually paid like $300 or something for it, oh so many years ago, and basically the only thing I did with it and kept was this:

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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2008, 10:28:47 am »
Hmm this looks very promising.

DUnno if you heard about Vue 6 (newest 7, but I don't have it) where we could even render the real vegetation as it was exported!! I just wonder how this vegetation map could be used there..

Anyone intersted in playing with this? xD
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2009, 05:10:14 pm »
I have tried to, but my hypothetically acquired version is very prone to crashing.
So I have not made anything.

Might try it again once I have another working harddisk to put my dump on (current 1TB disk died while falling, still need to find a way to recover the data, 600 GB of data I do not wish to lose.)
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2009, 05:35:33 pm »
Quote from: Angellus on January 17, 2009, 05:10:14 pm
Might try it again once I have another working harddisk to put my dump on (current 1TB disk died while falling, still need to find a way to recover the data, 600 GB of data I do not wish to lose.)
Pr0n stash, huh?

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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #42 on: February 05, 2009, 05:51:09 pm »
Quote from: Mephisto on January 17, 2009, 05:35:33 pm
Quote from: Angellus on January 17, 2009, 05:10:14 pm
Might try it again once I have another working harddisk to put my dump on (current 1TB disk died while falling, still need to find a way to recover the data, 600 GB of data I do not wish to lose.)
Pr0n stash, huh?

... Amateur.
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #43 on: February 15, 2009, 12:45:01 am »
Seems a few of us enjoy doing renders of DF landscapes.
I wonder if anybody would be interested in me doing a how-to for this in Terragen 2?
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Re: Terragen + New Map Export Options
« Reply #44 on: February 16, 2009, 03:56:42 am »
Go for it.

Terragen 2 looks amazing from the screenshots.
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