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Subject: Tricks for Creating Realistic Mountains?

Saro opened this issue on May 31, 2005 · 10 posts
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Saro ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 11:24 AM · edited Sun, 02 February 2025 at 4:58 PM

How do people create the really detailed mountains? Mine never seem to turn out very releastic. I am alos wondering about how people texture them. I'm about to call it quits on all the standard Vue materials. They just seem so fake.

agiel ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 1:05 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=TROC

Check the Backroom of the forum (link at the top of the page), especially the section about Terains. You can create realistic terrains two way : - one is to use DEM files, which are usually elevation maps of real geographic areas. - the other is to play with Procedural terrains. Check out the galleries of TROC and Collateral_Damage for greate examples of realistic terrains.

agiel ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 1:06 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=Collateral_Damage

Here is the other link:

Saro ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 2:13 PM

Wow! Those are great. Thanks for the links agiel. I'm going to check the backroom, but I did have one concern. I went to the US Geological survey site and couldn't find a place to download DEMs. It looks like they aren't giving them away either. Is there another place to get them?

Collateral_Damage ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 5:15 PM · edited Tue, 31 May 2005 at 5:19 PM

Attached Link: http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/Seamless/#

Try there. Be sure to be patient and wait for the page to update when you are using the main map because the site can be very slow.

Message edited on: 05/31/2005 17:19

lingrif ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 8:03 PM

I sometimes use Terragen terrains for my mountains, especially if I want softer, rolling mountains. There is a little freeware program called Terrapainter that I use to convert the .ter files to .bmp files. Then I use those in the Vue terrain editor.

www.lingriffin.com

Saro ( ) posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 10:28 PM

How about software convertors for Macs. Everything seems PC only.

LordWexford ( ) posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 1:16 AM

You might also try a programme called World Machine: http://www.world-machine.com/ It's a very powerful procedural landscape generator that enables you to save the landscape as a .BMP file.

Saro ( ) posted Wed, 01 June 2005 at 11:06 AM

First of all, thanks for the aid. I've learned a lot from everyone. "You might also try a programme called World Machine" Sorry, I can't! I am running a Mac. Collateral Damage, thanks for the site link. I'm just not sure how to get them into Vue...every convertor I've seen is PC only...but hopefully I can find another Mac user who can help out with a Mac-Friendly convertor. Until then, what do you usually save them as? And when you view the maps, you check the elevation viewer, correct?

Singular3D ( ) posted Sat, 04 June 2005 at 3:24 PM

Awesome terrains!

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