cmcgaugh opened this issue on May 01, 2013 · 48 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Fri, 03 May 2013 at 3:22 PM
I went to http://www.terrainmap.com/rm50.html and followed their quick instructions and was able to load a MOLA (using Latitude) from
http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/mgs/mgs-m-mola-5-megdr-l3-v1/mgsl_300x/meg128/
and saved a selected region as ascii DEM because TIFFDEM is not availabe for MOLA. The ascii DEM won't work with curved maps (that's obvious since DEMs are flat on the bottom).
Anyway, I imported the ascii DEM into Vue. I had to scale the terrain object (by eyeball technique since I've seen this so many times already in SCI-FI), otherwise the volcano is flat (2m high) instead of 1 mile high, my edumacated guess). Rendered with no material in Vue.