Check out Pixie's tutorial DEM's to a Contour-Map. Pixie used real-world Digital Elevation Model data, but you could use cloud-generated terrain just as easily. And it winds up with a contour map of the sort you're looking for.
Hi everyone,
Sorry for my english but i will try to explain my problem.
I made a scale map (1:25000) with real measurement, and i want to do the topography (and next the hydrology). I have seen tutorials here that used cloud and different cloud technique but i want to make mountains where i want, not with a "random" filter. Why? because i need to have levels of geology mountains like this: http://www.studiomaven.org/images/8/...Topography.jpg
The question is: How i can do that? in photoshop for example.
See you later and thanks.
Check out Pixie's tutorial DEM's to a Contour-Map. Pixie used real-world Digital Elevation Model data, but you could use cloud-generated terrain just as easily. And it winds up with a contour map of the sort you're looking for.
if you already have contour lines on a map there are a few ways of converting that to a 16 bit ( or 32 bit) black and white height map
using qgis and inkscape for a vector line contours
this can also be done in Blender
or a close approximation can be done in Gimp and using the "Morphological filter" run erosion and dilation passes on
-- works fairly well but not vert accurate , just close
and if this is a real world location
the real height data is available
this can be processed in Qgis to output just counter lines
or even in gimp or photoshop
Last edited by johnvanvliet; 07-08-2016 at 05:17 PM.
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If you have the DEM and want contours then use QGIS. If you can draw the contours and want the DEM then this is how I do it.
https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...l=1#post296662
part of this thread:
https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=33666
I have seen the tutorial, he explain in the last step something interesting about the contour-map, but there is another way to do the mountains like cloud-generated? (without using the filter cloud).
I no have a DEM yet. I need first make mountains where i want, the technique of cloud and difference cloud dont help me, because its generated a random "mountains".
Thanks.
PD: my terrain is a ficticial map with real measurement, and i want to use only photoshop.
Last edited by Yasser Pulido; 07-08-2016 at 10:10 PM.
like say the city of Rio (The Olympics ) but with different names ?my terrain is a ficticial map with real measurement.
if you can post a image then we can see it, and guide you in the direction you need .
i am only guessing but something like i did in this post
https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=34480
turn a image into a heightmap
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have a look through this tutorial section
https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=29412
then you can decide on shading or on making contour lines from that
in the link i posted all i did was use a paint brush to paint the basic heights
then eroded it in wilbur
then used a inpainting tool to resynthesize the sections of the color to remove the mapping elements ) buildings and roads and such)
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let me play around with your green and white image
then i can post a few intermediate images
the real strait rivers are from the land being too flat and not noisy enough
also i tend to EXAGGERATE the height
the image of mine you posted has the height a bit too tall
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