Forum: Vue


Subject: Terragen Terrain files exported out to Vue?

nanotyrannus opened this issue on Mar 09, 2005 ยท 46 posts


nanotyrannus posted Wed, 09 March 2005 at 4:08 PM

Hi, I've already searched through the archives here looking for an answer that will work and have tried out a bunch of the ones that were discussed to no avail. I'm trying to get a fairly large terrain (4097x4097) exported out from terragen in a format that retains all the details for import into Vue 5. So far the best I've managed is using the export to an 8 bit raw file and then using PSP 9 to convert it to a tiff for import into the terrain editor of Vue (attempting to directly import the file causes a total crash) I've tried exporting to the 16 bit raw formats in terragen but neither will open correctly in PSP or Vue (PSP reads it as weird jagged lines and Vue simply hangs up). The result of the 8 bit is a bunch of stepped terraces forming, which of course can be smoothed out using erosion, but this results in smaller terraces and also smoothes out the details I want to remain in the terrain. Any advice on getting a terragen terrain file out of terragen and into Vue without any data loss would be much appreciated!