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Started by darthvader, August 12, 2008, 05:27:26 PM
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August 12, 2008, 05:27:26 PM
I recently downloaded what I thought was a Mars heightmap but it turned out to be a normal map instead. Is tg2 able to use normal maps to create terrains and if not is there any way to converte the normal map to a heightmap?
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August 12, 2008, 11:57:52 PM
TG2 cannot directly use normal maps, although sometimes the term "normal map" refers to another file/image type which TG2 may actually work with, for example "displacement map". Here's a workflow for converting normal map to displacement map if you need to:
http://www.silo3d.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-8503.html
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August 13, 2008, 04:03:23 AM
I downloaded the tiff from the link below a while ago and used it as a heightmap in T0.9...
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/mars/marscyl2.htm
...it seemed to work quite well. (Here's my results -
http://digitaldynamics.blogspot.com/2007/09/life-on-mars.html
)
http://www.digitaldynamics.blogspot.com/
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