Exporting a Heigtfield map?

[Chimera]

Hi There,

Does anyone know how I can export a Black & White image to be used as 'n displacement map in Maya? Is this Available Yet?
I figured a would make a shader with the lowest part of the mountains all black and the highest all white, then fade the white. Then I would set-up a orthographic camera looking down and render the image. I also disabled the atmosphere.
Doesn't seem to work as the diffuse gets in the way. Nice way to render quick textures though. If only the resolution wasn't limited to 800x600.

[Oshyan]

The only convenient way to export TG2 terrain data to non-native (.ter) format is the Heightfield to LWO node. You can also use the LWO Micro-exporter, but both export geometry. The .ter format is a heightfield format, virtually equivalent to a displacement map, and if you used Terraconv (http://koti.mbnet.fi/pkl/tg/TerraConv.htm) to convert to 16 bit TIFF you could probably use that as a displacement map in Maya, however .ter export depends on the terrain being a heightfield. As far as I can tell the Heightfield From Shader node isn't working properly (or consistently, at least) at the moment, otherwise I'd suggest using that first, then saving a heightfield.

In any case if your terrain *is* a heightfield, or you can get the Heightfield From Shader node to work, then all you need to do is right-click and Save Terrain As to get a .ter, then use Terraconv to convert.

Better import/export options should be available for the final release.

- Oshyan

[Chimera]

Thanx for the reply.

I am looking forward to that in the final release. As this is all I am going to use Terragen for.