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Gravitybeetle

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All my maps become flat.
« on: 31 Mar 2003, 14:45:48 »
I have a problem with my maps' height differences.

1. I make the terrains with Terragen.
2. I make some smoothing/add noise/sharpening with Wilbur.
3. I save it as a .txt file.
4. I import it to WrpEdit and do all the needed editing (flags, terrain texture etc..).

But... When I press preview, all I can see is almost flat terrain.
What looked like a huge mountain in Wilbur, looks now more like a small hill. ???

Offline Gielovic

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Re:All my maps become flat.
« Reply #1 on: 31 Mar 2003, 17:07:54 »
You can try to scale it to 1.5 and look
Still flat?
Do it again and again. You'll see you have enormous mountains after doing that

Offline ScouseJedi

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Re:All my maps become flat.
« Reply #2 on: 31 Mar 2003, 18:17:36 »
Rather than use a terragen or wilbur try using imagetoascii (its a tiny program on this site.

You just create a 256 x 256 greyscale bmp in any painting package. White is the highpoint.

When you run the program set min height at 0 or -5 and max height about 200. That should give you a balanced contour map.

I found terragen and wilbur to be hard to use. I just could not get the terrain I wanted out of them.

Also, import the data as 1 1 .  not as 3 3 . like wilburs mesh data.
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Leone

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Re:All my maps become flat.
« Reply #3 on: 31 Mar 2003, 19:22:39 »
The path I use is this:

USGS DEM file > MicroDEM (edit and convert file) > MicroDEM to DEM file conversion > Wilber (edit edges of map) > WRPEdit

Works a treat.  ;D

Offline ScouseJedi

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Re:All my maps become flat.
« Reply #4 on: 31 Mar 2003, 20:23:02 »
If you can find a DEM for St Vith - Prum (Belgium German border north of Luxembourg let me know

:)
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Leone

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Re:All my maps become flat.
« Reply #5 on: 01 Apr 2003, 05:28:07 »
All the easily available high quality ones are of the USA. What you could do is find one that is similar....and just edit!  ;D

Gravitybeetle

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Re:All my maps become flat.
« Reply #6 on: 01 Apr 2003, 07:31:59 »
You can try to scale it to 1.5 and look
Still flat?
Do it again and again. You'll see you have enormous mountains after doing that
Thanks, that helped.
 :) Thankyou all for your help, and have a safe and productive day.