Hi, i currently try to import a heightmap from l3dt or terragen to WE but i dont know exactly what to do.
I created in L3DT a 2024x2024, 1000 m horiz. Scale with 64 HF/DM ( 2048*2048km) ratio and exported the heightfield map to bmp(is this a good format for esenthel?). Now i dont know what values i have to choose when i import the bmp in the WE. What x, x, z,z, maxY values do i have to choose to get exactly what i see in L3DT?

thanks

x,x z,z are area coordinates (area size is default 32 meters, it can be changed when you select menu\new world)

miny/maxy are in meter units

thanks for the fast answer. As a beginner i hope i did understand right.
So, when i try to import a heightmap of the size i mentioned above, i have to use these values from starting area position x,z 0 :
x: 0
x: 32000 ( 2048km / 64 m )
z: 0
z: 32000( same math )
maxY: 5000 ( is it right thats the value for the max height of "montains"? If yes, what happens to heigths above this value? )

ok i tried this out and as i expected, this data is too large , i get an error message 'cant allocate 65536 bytes of memory'.
What is the max value you can import a heightmap?

thanks

"2048*2048 km" are you sure?
even MMO's use some reasonable scale of 20km (which is already huge) but not 2048 km

I think you want your heightmap dimensions scaling to be 0.5m. Therefore if you have a heightmap of dimensions 2048x2048 (pixels), your world size would be 1024x1024 meters. This would equate to 32 x 32 grid sections in the world editor.

yes thats it, maybe my map was a little bit too big.
One more question, is it somehow possible to take over textures from the map in L3DT to WE?

not yet, but when I'm done with adding some new key features to EE, I'm planning to look into l3dt formats, and see if I can add importing them into WE automatically.

that would be very nice . Without L3DT are there any other possibilities to import heightmap + textures from any other external program?

heightmap yes, but materials need to be applied manually

(01-25-2010 04:09 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  not yet, but when I'm done with adding some new key features to EE, I'm planning to look into l3dt formats, and see if I can add importing them into WE automatically.

That would be awesome