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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: digital artist on April 27, 2007, 07:29:06 AM

Title: using .ter files?
Post by: digital artist on April 27, 2007, 07:29:06 AM
Has anyone found a method or work-around that will allow .ter files (from TG) to be recognized/ imported?
Title: Re: using .ter files?
Post by: red_planet on April 27, 2007, 08:00:22 AM
Do you mean a different one to....

Add Terrain .. Heightfield (load file). in the Terrain tab .   ;) ??

Rgds

Chris

Title: Re: using .ter files?
Post by: digital artist on April 27, 2007, 08:03:06 AM
That works....*smacks forehead*. I was trying to use the objects import function to do it.

Thanks,

Digital artist
Title: Re: using .ter files?
Post by: chefc on April 27, 2007, 09:03:53 AM
When using .ter 's in T2 the terrains perimiter's are restricted as in Terragen creating the world edge look Adjusting height remedies this in the loaded ter. 
Now combining a loaded ter w/a power fractral generated ter is a little test Ive been working on with some success..... For this image I used 257 Shiprock NM on top of a power fractral generated  ter
Still a work in progress ......
Title: Re: using .ter files?
Post by: rcallicotte on April 27, 2007, 11:05:50 AM
I like it.  Looks cool.
Title: Re: using .ter files?
Post by: bigben on April 27, 2007, 11:37:15 AM
If you have a) a lot of extra data and b) software to accurately specify the coordinates for your data export, you can generate multiple TERs with the same center but increasing size (decreasing resolution). 

My Tetons project uses a 40-50km square of 10m DEM data surrounded by 90m SRTM data. Using a series of 5 2049x2049 TERs, each double the size of the previous, I end up with a 320km terrain for 1/3 of the file size of a single 8193 TER.  TG2 blends the borders of these TERs very nicely as long as the resolution jump isn't too great.
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