Lyne opened this issue on Feb 10, 2006 ยท 26 posts
Lyne posted Fri, 10 February 2006 at 6:09 PM
I got suddenly interested in useing dem's in vue, when I saw the Google Earth ogl thing (which I am not comfortable trying yet).... Where do I get good dem's...and also I was told by a Bryce user I need a 'viewer' that will convert them into something vue could read? I really want to create "real" mountians, terrains...and I do need a step by step help... hmm I will take a look in the backroom here, but in case it is not answered there... Vue 5.7 Infinite on PC
Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
Lyne posted Fri, 10 February 2006 at 6:49 PM
OH this is complicated...so I took a screen shot of the grand canyon in google earth...inverted the grayscale version...
AND WHY DOES THE VUE TERRAIN EDITOR MAKE SPIKEY THINGS instead of a smooth photo gray scale terrain like BRYCE does with great ease??
I thought it was a better editor when I made a fence...but duh, Lyne- that was a flat white and black area...there was no texture.... Bryce always read the height by the gray scale areas...lighter is higher, to perfection! Why does the vue one disregard this?
Yes I had my slider all the way to picture.... oh pooh! rummages around in the backroom some more.... oh! the FUNCTION editor?? Create with a picture there? Hmmmmm....I am nothing if not persistant! :)
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Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
Lyne posted Fri, 10 February 2006 at 7:57 PM
Attached Link: http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/701/28/
apparently you need to get them FREE from here while you can... the 7.5 dems from a canadian server... I just got one, opened it and the mountians appeared!! wwheeeeeee!!!!!Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
creed2003 posted Fri, 10 February 2006 at 9:40 PM
Oh this is just too cool!!!! Nice find!!!
LordWexford posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 2:28 AM
Nice find Lyne, I wasn't aware that the USGS had stopped making the files freely available.
Irish posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 7:43 AM
Thanks Lyne!!! :)
Mazak posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 7:59 AM
Mazak posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 9:12 AM
videodv posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 11:54 AM
The "world dems" dont seem to load in anyone got them to work?
Trelawney posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 12:49 PM
Lyne posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 1:34 PM
OH I am so pleased that I could share something I found...I do feel like downloading as many as I can, as you never know when they will not be free like that anymore... What is a 1 dg? I am so new to all this! Trelawney, I don't know how youi got those trees lined up like that! Amazing!! :) Lyne
Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
Mazak posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 1:48 PM
1deg DEM has higher resolution than 7.5deg DEM. (More detail, larger in size). Mazak
Lyne posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 1:52 PM
OH! I will have to try some of those too! :) I did plan on trying different sorts of terrain bump with these...jpg's as bumps and also will force me to get more into functions! (the scariest part of vue! LOL!)
Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
iloco posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 2:20 PM
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Trelawney posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 2:52 PM
I agree Iloco - I wondered if I had the right .DEM as it looked so flat too hehe! I just guessed it was a flat area, but I might be wrong! It was New York West >8o) The default Country Town EcoSystem is a great though innit? I've taken to un-checking Resize and Centre Imports. The larger the scale, the more influence the atmospheric has (I find). I really must start experimenting more with Ecos - they can look so nice! >8o)
TimRiley posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 5:17 PM
Actually, a 1 degree DEM has LESS resolution than a 7.5 MINUTE DEM.
dlk30341 posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 5:43 PM
LOL Rod, I'd definately double check that dem. I'm from NY....the Finger Lake region & have relatives scattered from Buffalo, South to Elmira/Binghampton and north to Geneva. There isn't a flat place around unless you pick a square block of neighborhood, even then there are some hills :)
Trelawney posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 6:10 PM
Hehe - i'll have to download that to try again Debby, probably it was a 1 Deg DEM (i.e. small resolution)
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dlk30341 posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 6:22 PM
dlk30341 posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 6:24 PM
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randym77 posted Sat, 11 February 2006 at 9:15 PM
Wow, this is cool. The 1 degree dems don't work very well, but the 7.5 minute ones are great. Some of them are oddly spiky, but many look excellent.
I wonder if there are any for the Moon, Mars, etc.?
Benettor posted Sun, 12 February 2006 at 3:34 AM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1155605&Start=1&Sectionid=3&filter_genre_id=0&WhatsN
Thnks Lyne for this perfect source of dem scapes:) I want to use this stuff alot .. i have allready make something after that THNKS!
sermel posted Sun, 12 February 2006 at 6:36 PM
http://www.space-graphics.com/marster_om.htm
randym77 posted Sun, 12 February 2006 at 7:37 PM
Lyne posted Wed, 15 February 2006 at 6:04 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=Lyne
I did my first Vue scene with a "dem"...I don't know which one, since I was downloading many before I started to rename them...but this was really neat to use! :)Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
Lyne posted Wed, 15 February 2006 at 6:06 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1157615
If this will be faster, I took it out of my yahoo mail of notices for comments on my dem vue...Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!