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[kristian02]

This is my curent world rendered using blender

Warning big picture

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And is it posible to get a heightmap from your site??

[Itnetlolor]

That's awesome!!!

Definitely should be a great help in finding good spots.

[Elvang]

That's a rather cool way to view the heights of each region.

Yea, go to Start Playing->Legends->d for various options for exporting, such as elevations.

[Derakon]

You can fake a heightmap by exporting images of every layer of the site; each layer is one Z-level, after all.

Interesting image. Not quite what I was expecting, but cool in its own way.

[DWeird]

...are those mountains of water or am I seeing things?

[Sordid]

...are those mountains of water or am I seeing things?

I believe that's the ocean floor.

[rickvoid]

Trippy.

When I realized that it was the ocean floor, what I was seeing as a mountain suddenly reversed. Neat.

[timmeh]

That is awesome.  Out of curriosity, how'd you do it?

I tried doing it with one of mine, and while it technically worked, I don't have much experience with blender, so I'm interested to see how you did it.

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[Mondark]

Wow.  Awesome.  I'm going to try this with my world, as soon as I get a chance.

Timmeh, while I cant speak for the OP, here's how I'd do it:

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Go into legends mode, and go to the export image screen ('d' key, iirc) and export the elevation map, this will give you a simple black and white image.  Also make sure you get the color map too, but you seem to already know that.

In Blender, create a plane, and subdivide it a whole bunch of times, you want a very fine mesh, 5 or 6 subdivisions should do it.  (W key then selecting Subdivide, again, iirc, as I've not used Blender for a while)

Set your exported heightmap as the texture, you seem to already know how to do this (Textures tab, select image from the "Texture Type" dropdown box, for those of you who don't,)

At this point, your plane should look like a flat photo of your heightmap, let's fix that.

Select the plane, and enter editing mode, NOT sculpt mode, and select all the vertices.  Go into Mesh Tools tab, and hit the 'Noise' button as many times as you like to get a nice height.

Then, just set the texture to the color map, and render.

Sorry if that was too much information, too little, or way incorrect.  It's been a while since I've used blender.  Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

[timmeh]

Wow.  Awesome.  I'm going to try this with my world, as soon as I get a chance.

Timmeh, while I cant speak for the OP, here's how I'd do it:

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Go into legends mode, and go to the export image screen ('d' key, iirc) and export the elevation map, this will give you a simple black and white image.  Also make sure you get the color map too, but you seem to already know that.

In Blender, create a plane, and subdivide it a whole bunch of times, you want a very fine mesh, 5 or 6 subdivisions should do it.  (W key then selecting Subdivide, again, iirc, as I've not used Blender for a while)

Set your exported heightmap as the texture, you seem to already know how to do this (Textures tab, select image from the "Texture Type" dropdown box, for those of you who don't,)

At this point, your plane should look like a flat photo of your heightmap, let's fix that.

Select the plane, and enter editing mode, NOT sculpt mode, and select all the vertices.  Go into Mesh Tools tab, and hit the 'Noise' button as many times as you like to get a nice height.

Then, just set the texture to the color map, and render.

Sorry if that was too much information, too little, or way incorrect.  It's been a while since I've used blender.  Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks!  Out of curiosity, what is the best way to get a second texture for the color map, I pretty much just screwed around with it till it worked.

[Time Kitten]

Actually, rather than a mesh, I'd use a program that supports displacement maps or terrain items (basicly a flat displacement map) to get a 100% accurate version.  Personally this is exactly the task I'd use Bryce for, with some creative texturing and alterations to get a real worldview other than the tilemap.

[Mondark]

     Timmeh, there should be several blank buttons in the texture tab.  Clicking on one should make it the active one, and you can make any changes to the texture in that slot, then click on another button and change/add another texture the same way.  I don't remember exactly how the texture mapping worked, there was another tab for it, back in the material section, I think.  Like I said, I'm away from my home computer right now, so I can't be sure.

     Time Kitten, I don't know about terrain items, but Blender does support displacement/bump maps, though in my experience, they're better suited for smaller scale things, rough, bumpy surfaces, etc.  Bryce looks interesting, but it's not free, so meh.

     Something else to try, using the site/biome maps, or some of the others, as texture.  That way you get the nice colors, without the ascii.  Maybe some kind of combination of several could look neat.

EDIT here we go!

Alrighty, here's my first two:

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The first is most of the world, and the second is a little valley, only accessible on foot (no fast travel), which had been colonized by a few peaceful civs.  I have fun traipsing across the mountains.

More soon.

EDIT 2, here's a version with the biome/site map, nice, but I like the ascii better, I think.

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[schm0]

This thread is pretty cool, I must admit! Looking forward to more!

[zchris13]

How about a temperature map on that?

[kristian02]

Wow.  Awesome.  I'm going to try this with my world, as soon as I get a chance.

Timmeh, while I cant speak for the OP, here's how I'd do it:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Go into legends mode, and go to the export image screen ('d' key, iirc) and export the elevation map, this will give you a simple black and white image.  Also make sure you get the color map too, but you seem to already know that.

In Blender, create a plane, and subdivide it a whole bunch of times, you want a very fine mesh, 5 or 6 subdivisions should do it.  (W key then selecting Subdivide, again, iirc, as I've not used Blender for a while)

Set your exported heightmap as the texture, you seem to already know how to do this (Textures tab, select image from the "Texture Type" dropdown box, for those of you who don't,)

At this point, your plane should look like a flat photo of your heightmap, let's fix that.

Select the plane, and enter editing mode, NOT sculpt mode, and select all the vertices.  Go into Mesh Tools tab, and hit the 'Noise' button as many times as you like to get a nice height.

Then, just set the texture to the color map, and render.

Sorry if that was too much information, too little, or way incorrect.  It's been a while since I've used blender.  Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

That is exactly how i did it
(Help from super3boy(Youtube) )

Edit:
I subsurfed it a little