i have recently sculpted some terrain in mudbox is there any way of converting an obj file into targa then converting it into a .ter terrain or converting an obj file straight into a .ter file
So far as I know there is no way to convert the .obj into a .ter file. However, if you can generate a heightmap of the .obj, you can use the resulting image to convert it to a .ter.
Hey Lightening, if you are getting a tga file out, as in a displacement map/greyscale, you should be able to go from the tga to tif in Photoshop, and then from tif to ter in TerraConv http://koti.mbnet.fi/pkl/tg/TerraConv.htm.
I don't know how good the results will be, (no idea of the res/channels/bits Mudbox exports tga files) but once you get the ter out of TerraConv you can scale it in TG, I would think.
I know that it's possible to import a .ter file into 3dsMax (using a free plugin) and then save it as an .obj. If you can import your .ter into any 3D modeling program, you could likely do the same thing.
Hello,
You can use poseray to convert obj file to a povray mesh.
http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/ (http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/)
then with an orthogonal camera, a marble texture, and ambient light only you can convert to TGA or any picture format. (you can use the extent function to get the size of your mesh)
http://www.povray.org/ (http://www.povray.org/)
finally you can convert to .ter using worldmachine.
http://www.world-machine.com/ (http://www.world-machine.com/)
it seems painful but it should be fast and easy to reproduce. the drawback is the limited size of terrain with the free version of worldmachine.
Bye
Pascal.