Reply With Quotelooks fantastic!Could we see the borders again?
Managed to speed things up significantly, and have started working on adding details.
Last edited by isomage; 03-18-2009 at 04:18 AM.
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looks fantastic!
Sure, here are the plate boundaries for that last image.
Remember, though, that I'm not trying to come up with a realistic plate tectonics-based planet -- I'm just using the notion of bounded regions to help me generate continents which may have coastal mountain ranges
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Here it is on a sphere (with GIMP's "map object" filter).
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All this work and I'm not sure my results are half as nice as what Fractal Terrains does.
In the end I'm probably just gonna use this stuff as input to my hex map generator, so it's not really that big a deal. But geez, this stuff is hard. The people who wrote FT and all those other apps (Terragen, Wilbur, etc) have earned my respect.
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would it be hard to output the height map in numbers, so I can put it in a database? It would be great if that was possible.
Here you go.
The file contains the width and height in pixels on the first line, followed by width * height floating point elevation values (0.0 - 1.0), one per line. If you read them sequentially in width columns of height points each you should be able to reconstruct the map. The resolution of this data set is 9 points per degree, so if the planet is Earth-sized, that's about seven and a half miles per pixel at the equator.
Note that it's a spherical projection, so is distorted at the top and bottom; you can, however, map it to a sphere (width is longitude and height is latitude) and view the result from any angle.
Have fun
EDIT: attachment removed due to errors; see below.
Last edited by isomage; 03-18-2009 at 04:21 PM.
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wow, thanks. Now i only have to find a way to reconstruct this
edit: you say it has an resolution of 9 points per degree, that would be 180*360*9 = 583200 points, but there are only 6371 points in the file. So that would be about 0.09832 point per degree, or am i doing something wrong here?
Last edited by haroim; 03-18-2009 at 07:32 AM.
I must've erred when I dumped the data. I'll look into it.
Last edited by isomage; 03-18-2009 at 04:00 PM.
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when making the map, are longitude and latitude coords generated? if so, could you output in this way:" ( '' , 'long', 'lat', 'height'), ( '' , 'long', 'lat', 'height'), ", that would make life a lot easier for me, because i can put it directly into the database. If you could find the time to do this i would be very grateful.
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