Hello, this is my first thread on this forum. I have two questions
1 - Does anyone knows if its possible to export GoogleEarth heightfield for use in other programs? I know that from Sketchup, you can import a heightfield equivalent to your current GoogleEarth view (both programs must be open). And Sketchup can export in a few 3D formats (like .obj for example). Thus I wonder if it would be possible to export directly from GoogleEarth to Terragen via some kind of plugin you guys may be aware of, or if it would be possible to export from Sketchup to Terragen via some common 3D format.
It would be a really good way of aquiring real world heighfield terrains, since GoogleEarth makes it very easy to select the area you want...
2 - I am not finding the terrain editor that featured in Terragen 0.9. You know, the one where you "painted" the heightfield. But anyway, it was not very good. And in fact, I havent been able to find ANY good terrain editor on the internet (tried demos of several of the terrain editors listed on Terragen Resources page). Most editors let you edit procedural features of the terrain as a whole, or edit the terrain as if it was a bitmap, adding (or subtracting) height blobs, cones, etc.
I wonder why there isnt (if there is, please point me to it!) a terrain editor where you draw a line and set the width of that line and the height of the features on that line. But that line wont "paint" over an image. That line (with its width and height) will be the location for example of a multi-perlin noise feature. Something like that. It can have the feature of adding features to the terrain as a whole, but the main thing would be to add procedural generated features (instead of paint like features) directly with the mouse...
Thanks for your patience.