Gimme a 256x256 grayscale height map image and I'll post back the result.

[Redrobes]

What can you do with the first greyscale image su_liam posted...

Yeah that would be no problem. Its 2am here so I have to knock off now which is a pity. This greyscale would work just great but it has already been produced via Bryce. The idea of GTS is to take *worse* images than this and produce great stuff. But ill run it up and show you the result of it. Its actually quite a nice one since its a mountain and I can set up the temperature to drop snow, start some glaciers and maybe even a small volcano...


Edit -- Here it is as the native one for now just as a reference but ill run it through GTS tomorrow.


Edit #2: Actually, can some admin move this to a new thread... im on some kind of hijack mode now

[RobA]

Edit #2: Actually, can some admin move this to a new thread... im on some kind of hijack mode now

By your command.

-Rob A>

[Redrobes]

Ok, I have the main terrain processed now. What I will do now is take a small square out of it and process it up some more.

[Redrobes]

[su_liam]

Guhhh!?! Well, that's better than what I could do with bryce. Any chance of a mac port of geotersys?

[Redrobes]

Got to get it going on Windows first. Every time I run it I find a new bug. They are getting less frequent and less important but its going to be in Beta for some time yet.

Then there is a UI issue as its all text based and command line. Its quite hard to run it right now. I had to write a script to generate that mountain run. I could use that same script to run a similar one tho so the idea is that the bit of ground next to this one gets processed in a similar fashion. I keep learning more about what is good and what is not as time goes on. I hope that I will be able to burn in some of the best techniques into something that I can make easy to use.

I could see myself producing a linux version and given that its all text based it ought to run easily in your virtual OS mode. It has numerous outputting/export formats so you can visualize the terrain in whatever app you wanted. The original idea was to have it as a plug in for some other terrain app that had the UI. So maybe it could run as a plug in for Bryce...who knows, its a bit early to say for sure.