Forum: Vue


Subject: MEGA Terrains and Terragen TER files in Vue

Veritas777 opened this issue on Sep 09, 2005 ยท 34 posts


Veritas777 posted Fri, 09 September 2005 at 6:44 PM

...O.K., first I'll explain the Terragen link- and then direct you to some FREE terrain utilities you can download and add to your Vue Terrain Toolkit. Terragen, as a FREE program, should be one of those toolkit programs.

The first thing to do to get a Terragen file out of Terragen is go to it's Landscape Panel (a little like Vue's Terrain Editor) and export your TER file as a 16 Bit Intel Byte Order RAW file. This is very Important. Do NOT export it as 8 bits - unless your imaging-paint software cannot handle a 16 bit file- then you have no choice! If you are a MAC user- then export as a 16 Bit Motorola Byte-Order RAW file...

O.K.- I just realized that some of you may NOT have software that reads a "RAW" file- so I can't help you there. I use Photoshop- so I will continue with that process in the meantime. Photoshop 7 and 8 reads 16 bit files- and I think several other Paint apps do also- but I don't use them to test this all out...

ALSO- I always RESIZE all these Terragen TER files up to 4K by 4K (4097 x 4097) and then EXPORT these RAW files. The biggest RAW file you can get out of Terragen the BETTER looking your VUE Terrain scene is going to look "space-wise" (more Terragenish).