Lidar to dem

Started by sjefen, May 19, 2020, 06:58:02 AM

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sjefen

Hi,


Anyone had any experience with converting LIDAR to DEM or other formats that can be used in Terragen?


- Terje
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KyL

No but I imagine you could probably convert your Lidar to a VDISP map, similar to this thread:

https://planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,23959.0.html

sjefen

Thanks 😊

I'll look into that.

I've found a good source for pulling point cloud from my home country which has lots of awesome mountains. I wanna import them to Terragen, but need to figure out how.

If anyone can find a good solution to this, I would be very happy  ;D
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sjefen

Ok. I've tried and failed so many times now. I know it's possible, but right now I just want Matt to implement and option to read these files and convert it to terrains  ;D
Just look at all the data that is there in the attached image. And the lovely landscape of course.
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WAS

This one seems specific to LAZ files to OBJ: https://wiki.beamng.com/Using_LIDAR_to_generate_terrain

Does seem like a lot of these are on other paid for suites.

sjefen

I'll try this one as well. Thanks  :)
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D.A. Bentley (SuddenPlanet)

#8
You could look into using MeshLab which is free.  Looks like from searching it may be possible:

MeshLab Import LIDAR

You might need this to convert your .las file to something else:  https://www.danielgm.net/cc/

See here also:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44408141/how-to-convert-las-file-to-ply-file

-Derek