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Subject: 3D Models of countries


Kingfisher ( ) posted Fri, 14 July 2006 at 5:44 AM · edited Thu, 25 July 2024 at 7:16 PM

I am after some 3D models of countries particulary New Zealand, Australia & Singapore anyone any suggestions where I can find them.

Thanks in anticipation.


ockham ( ) posted Fri, 14 July 2006 at 8:36 AM

Since each of those is an island [or a continent] you could make them

in Poser, with a little help from a paint program. 

Start with a good map of the area that shows the land in relief (not colored

to reflect political boundaries.)  Use the 'replace colors' feature in PaintShop

to replace the ocean with black.   

Save the image at this point to use as the texture map.  

Apply it to a Square in Poser. 

Then make a greyscale copy of the image, and apply this as a

displacement map to the Square.    (Note: If you want true relief,

you might have to do some lassoing and inverting of colors,

since the typical relief map uses a darker color for higher

altitude, and Poser wants lighter color for higher displacement.)

Then take a Box, make it blue and slightly transparent.  This is the ocean.

Scale and move the ocean so that the 'land' pops up from the 'water'.

Since displacement doesn't show in the preview, this will take a bit

of fiddling and rendering!

 

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muralist ( ) posted Fri, 14 July 2006 at 8:46 AM

You may download my free models of Australia at http://gregsandor.tripod.com/Terrain/Australia.htm

Open them in Terragen, reduce the size, and export as .obj if you want to use in Poser.


Kingfisher ( ) posted Fri, 14 July 2006 at 3:02 PM

Thanks for that Ockham.

I`ve partly followed that course already but it finding a good quality map of just New Zealand etc.

Its 3D models Im really looking for.

Muralist

Ill have a go with your Terragen models.Its not a program Ive used much recently but Ill have a go.

Thanks for the assistance.


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