Hello fellow Terragen community. I'm a Geomatics student
and I have the following problem: I'm currently writing a c++ program that reads randomly organized points ( their xyz-values) and then sorts them
in order to create a dxf-file with the 3D-Triangles of the linked 3D-Points.
The points form a height grid, they all are equally arranged copys of the surface. The aperture or opening width is constant as i said.
Does anybody know how to gain information from a generated Height Map (in Terragen 1 or 2)
about the X,Y,Z coordinates of the surface. Ideally the aperture width should be equal
and the extracted points should be organized in a grid
What I want to do is organize the points (with the coordinates) in a asci file (file.txt for example)
and feed it to my c++ program.
The file fed to the program looks this way:
pointnumber X-Value Y-Value Height "Z-Value"
(not important) here Gauss-Krueger
10017 3413538.0000 5374755.0000 113.248
10099 3413540.0000 5374750.0000 113.682
10095 3413539.0000 5374755.0000 113.136
10066 3413540.0000 5374755.0000 113.498
10085 3413545.0000 5374748.0000 116.321
10003 3413542.0000 5374755.0000 112.168
10063 3413538.0000 5374748.0000 117.099
10005 3413545.0000 5374752.0000 114.615
I am thankful for any reply.
Greetings
Axel
I don't know if this will help, if I'm understanding you right you want to get the Terrain X,Y,Z coordinates from the Terragen terrain file to feed into your C++ program. If so, then you check out Wilbur - it is listed on the resources page of Planetside. Very neat little program to import & export terrain stats.
It might be what you are looking for, here is the link:
http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/software.html (http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/software.html)
Hope this helps.
JR
I agree, another app that deals with heightfields would probably get you the data you want easier.
- Oshyan
@jritchie777 and also Oshyan
thank you very much. The idea with wilbur was great. This little programm exactly featured the application i needed.
i now have so many more possibilties and the results i get are also a lot more significant.
Awesome!