Importing heightfield from Vue to terragen 2

[disneytoy]

I'm having a bit of trouble getting a terrain i created in Vue 8 into TG 2.1.


First in the Vue terrain editor I've tried both regular and converting it to a procedural terrain.

There are several export formats. I'm just interested in the terrain, no shaders.

I tried TIFF.

I added a terrain hightfield (load) selected the tiff, but it gives me an error, that I need to convert it to SGI for non standard bit depth?

Any other options to import this terrain? any other export format?

Thanks

Max

[Jason71]

I've heard from some guys at The Foundry (Nuke) that .tif is really not a recommended file format because apparently not all applications write them out the same way creating compatibility issues.  Just try another format that supports float like hdr, or exr. 

[Kadri]

Look here. It may help you , Max :

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8021.0

Kadri.

[Oshyan]

As Jason mentioned, TIFF is a format that varies quite a lot in different implementations. There is no real, complete standard. One possibility would be to load the TIFF in another application which can read it then save it out to a different TIFF or other image format. A good example of this is Photoshop, which can read 16 bit TIFFs and offers multiple TIFF save options (e.g. byte order) that can be configured to work with TG2.

What other file formats are supported for export? Perhaps one of them will be more suitable.

- Oshyan

[Dune]

Speaking about file formats. Why is 'bitmap' not supported? I tried it, because often a mask in pure black/white is good enough, and the file size is very low. Very handy if you need a really large mask for sharpness, but don't want it to consume all memory. Another question has already been answered, I think; that a small sized jpg has no effect as it has to be 'unpacked' within TG and eats memory as well.

---Dune

[Oshyan]

Not sure what you mean by "bitmap", as it's a term used for many different purposes, including description of any general non-vector image format. Perhaps you mean a simple 1 channel image, 2 bit image, black and white?

- Oshyan