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is there a way that i can create a terrain in hex or some other modeling program, import it into Bryce, and have Bryce recognize it as a terrain object??

TIA

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Model it. Render a height map from it in the render software of your choice. Use that height map to create a terrain in Bryce.

just tried that and does not seem to work.. cannot preserve the contrast range needed to reproduce the original object…. need something a bit more direct.

thanks!

hiker_1 - 23 September 2012 07:31 PM

just tried that and does not seem to work.. cannot preserve the contrast range needed to reproduce the original object…. need something a bit more direct.

thanks!

Its possible the height map from your other app is not creating a 16 bit image.

hiker_1 - 23 September 2012 05:58 PM

is there a way that i can create a terrain in hex or some other modeling program, import it into Bryce, and have Bryce recognize it as a terrain object??

TIA

:8

It is possible, but difficult.  I have done this with Grome 3.  There are heightmap exporters but the trick is setting the range and getting it to output in a format that Bryce Terrain editor will accept.  You need, 16 bit precision and I use tiff.  The picture radio button in the Terrain editor will let you bring these in.  But I warn you now, it is a time consuming and fiddly process, cross calibrating the two applications.

These scenes (taken from the Bryce Mentoring DVD  ) are examples of heightmaps generated using, or filtered using, Grome 3.

You can also “paint” a height map in a graphics application where white is high and black low. It must be exported as a 16 bit greyscale (not colour!) TIFF. Back in the terrain editor of Bryce, you can use the filter, erosion and what-not tools to adapt the terrain.

well.. this whole thing started because I had come across a modeling program that has a terrain generator/editor included with it—VoidWorld.

Below is a screenie of it.

And also a terrain in Bryce that was created by the program.

The problem was that exporting from VoidWorld as an obj, and then importing into Bryce, I could not apply terrain textures or height maps to it… hence my posting.

However, Horo’s comment particularily woke me up.  I had not looked at VoidWorld close enough!  It will also save the image map as a bmp file, which of course, imports directly into Bryce!

So here is also a shot of it imported into Bryce and a quick render.  I had to lower the altitude a bit when importing, but othere than that, there is no manipulation to the image.

Thanks all, for waking me up and making me think a bit!