Terrain editor-creator

golem841

I used to render almost all my scene from Poser in Eon software Vue.

I even subscribed to Vue infinite for that purpose.

It's the costliest software I ever bought for my little hobby !

Nowaday, the render engine in Vue is really showing it's age.

I could Buy Maya and the bridge to Studio, but that would be way overkilling compared to my needs and budget.

Some vendors have already bits of what's needed : like the ultrascatter,

Plants automatic variations is still lacking

Could someone make a plugin to import from and to Terragen or even "simpler" create a realistic terrain editor for DazStudio ?

WendyLuvsCatz

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjelevate-reva

as usual Casual has done it already 

golem841

WendyLuvsCatz said:

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjelevate-reva

as usual Casual has done it already 

Thank you,

CasualJacques is extremely inventive and I saw his "terrain creator"

but it's really too coarse for use in close-ups

Timotheus

You should have a look at UltraScenery from Howie Farkes (who also made UltraScatter)....

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascenery--realistic-landscape-system

WendyLuvsCatz

2 years later 

Timotheus

Oh, yeah. Didn't notice that. 

Gordig

The post Timotheus was responding to, stating that mCasual's script was too coarse, was only made yesterday. The poster may actually not know about UltraScenery yet.

WendyLuvsCatz

yes I was actually responding to them not Timotheus 

They obviously don't like to rush 

 

golem841

WendyLuvsCatz said:

yes I was actually responding to them not Timotheus 

They obviously don't like to rush 

 

Hi,

To answer shortly, I'm nearing 60 and playing with Poser+Vue since respectively version 3 and 4. I owned my first computer in 1979. 

So, no, I'm in no hurry at all.

chris-2599934

golem841 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjelevate-reva

as usual Casual has done it already 

Thank you,

CasualJacques is extremely inventive and I saw his "terrain creator"

but it's really too coarse for use in close-ups

If it's "too coarse" just apply it to a plane with more subdivisions. He shows an example applied to a 32x32 plane, but there's no reason why you shouldn't apply it to a 100x100 or 1000x1000 plane if your machine will handle it. Similaly, the texture image you apply can be of any size you like.

Timotheus

golem841 said:

Hi,

To answer shortly, I'm nearing 60 and playing with Poser+Vue since respectively version 3 and 4. I owned my first computer in 1979. 

So, no, I'm in no hurry at all.

Well, if you are still looking for a solution to use within Daz Studio, I highly recommend UltraScenery. It gives you a wizard-like UI to build a terrain from height maps (either random or imported) and then lets you add specific features like a road or a stream and en "ecology" like a grassland or aspen forest. The base terrain is only 64x64 meters, which is admittedly fairly small.

You can find out more and see a lot of renders in the product forum here.

Tim

Charlie Judge

There is also infinito: https://www.daz3d.com/infinito-1-0

and Ground Control: http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plugin.php?ProductId=7

golem841

Timotheus said:

golem841 said:

Hi,

To answer shortly, I'm nearing 60 and playing with Poser+Vue since respectively version 3 and 4. I owned my first computer in 1979. 

So, no, I'm in no hurry at all.

Well, if you are still looking for a solution to use within Daz Studio, I highly recommend UltraScenery. It gives you a wizard-like UI to build a terrain from height maps (either random or imported) and then lets you add specific features like a road or a stream and en "ecology" like a grassland or aspen forest. The base terrain is only 64x64 meters, which is admittedly fairly small.

You can find out more and see a lot of renders in the product forum here.

Tim

As for Howie Farkes products : I own almost all of them : ultrascatter is almost perfectly similar to Vue plant distribution system except the lack of randomness of objects and the ability to '"paint" the distribution of species.

Ultra scenery is also an absolute must.

For some reason Daz Studio tends to choke rapidly with increased instances which is not the case of Vue.

I vue it's possible to organise the scene by "layers"/ sub folder so that you can hidea lot of things at once.

golem841

Charlie Judge said:

There is also infinito: https://www.daz3d.com/infinito-1-0

and Ground Control: http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plugin.php?ProductId=7

Thanks for those links :

I'm downloading ground control right now (It's very possible I paid for it when Carrara was still alive outside Daz

In the same page of Github there's a program named DAZ Sorter : if it's an option to organize non-DIM products could be of interest.

For in Infinito I will have a look at it : it's a little pricey, so I expect it to have some powerful abilities, but the pictures provided are a bit too "cartoonsih" for my needs

golem841

golem841 said:

Charlie Judge said:

There is also infinito: https://www.daz3d.com/infinito-1-0

and Ground Control: http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plugin.php?ProductId=7

Thanks for those links :

I'm downloading ground control right now (It's very possible I paid for it when Carrara was still alive outside Daz

In the same page of Github there's a program named DAZ Sorter : if it's an option to organize non-DIM products could be of interest.

For in Infinito I will have a look at it : it's a little pricey, so I expect it to have some powerful abilities, but the pictures provided are a bit too "cartoonsih" for my needs

I'm trying to install ground control : there's a dll to put somewhere I don't know.

WendyLuvsCatz

golem841 said:

golem841 said:

Charlie Judge said:

There is also infinito: https://www.daz3d.com/infinito-1-0

and Ground Control: http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plugin.php?ProductId=7

Thanks for those links :

I'm downloading ground control right now (It's very possible I paid for it when Carrara was still alive outside Daz

In the same page of Github there's a program named DAZ Sorter : if it's an option to organize non-DIM products could be of interest.

For in Infinito I will have a look at it : it's a little pricey, so I expect it to have some powerful abilities, but the pictures provided are a bit too "cartoonsih" for my needs

I'm trying to install ground control : there's a dll to put somewhere I don't know.

in plugins folder with your other dll's

I installed it and it's an option but I have not downloaded any dem files to test it

I couldn't get the Carrara version to work so never tried 

under program files DAZ DAZ studio version whatever plugins

Charlie Judge

golem841 said:

Charlie Judge said:

There is also infinito: https://www.daz3d.com/infinito-1-0

and Ground Control: http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plugin.php?ProductId=7

For in Infinito I will have a look at it : it's a little pricey, so I expect it to have some powerful abilities, but the pictures provided are a bit too "cartoonsih" for my needs

It goes on sale sometimes. I don't like it as well as rendering DEMs in Bryce but here is an old render I did in DS using infinito and a Grand Canyon DEM

richardandtracy

If you have a Windows PC, I have written a freebie little program to generate a terrain from a height map. The program is available here: http://www.chestnutpens.co.uk/misc/heightmap.html The program UV maps the height map but does not create a texture - sorry!

Regards,

Richard

Gusf1

   What about Terradome 3?

                  Gus

golem841

Is it Iray compatible ?

Gusf1 said:

   What about Terradome 3?

                  Gus

 

Richard Haseltine

golem841 said:

Is it Iray compatible ?

Gusf1 said:

   What about Terradome 3?

                  Gus

 

Yes

golem841

richardandtracy said:

If you have a Windows PC, I have written a freebie little program to generate a terrain from a height map. The program is available here: http://www.chestnutpens.co.uk/misc/heightmap.html The program UV maps the height map but does not create a texture - sorry!

Regards,

Richard

Looks a really nice and lean piece of software, but one have to find decent resolution DEMs or Height Maps.

I'm not proficient enough to draw these out of nothing in GIMP

chris-2599934

golem841 said:

richardandtracy said:

If you have a Windows PC, I have written a freebie little program to generate a terrain from a height map. The program is available here: http://www.chestnutpens.co.uk/misc/heightmap.html The program UV maps the height map but does not create a texture - sorry!

Regards,

Richard

Looks a really nice and lean piece of software, but one have to find decent resolution DEMs or Height Maps.

I'm not proficient enough to draw these out of nothing in GIMP

One way to create random height maps in GIMP is to create a new grayscale image of whatever size you want. Then select "Filters > Render > Noise > Plasma..." from the menu. For a different look, you can also try "Solid Noise" from the same menu. Of course, this just gives you a random, uneven surface - it won't give you realistic weathering or water features. For that, I find promising leads at https://www.google.com/search?q=random+height+map+generator

golem841

chris-2599934 said:

golem841 said:

richardandtracy said:

If you have a Windows PC, I have written a freebie little program to generate a terrain from a height map. The program is available here: http://www.chestnutpens.co.uk/misc/heightmap.html The program UV maps the height map but does not create a texture - sorry!

Regards,

Richard

Looks a really nice and lean piece of software, but one have to find decent resolution DEMs or Height Maps.

I'm not proficient enough to draw these out of nothing in GIMP

One way to create random height maps in GIMP is to create a new grayscale image of whatever size you want. Then select "Filters > Render > Noise > Plasma..." from the menu. For a different look, you can also try "Solid Noise" from the same menu. Of course, this just gives you a random, uneven surface - it won't give you realistic weathering or water features. For that, I find promising leads at https://www.google.com/search?q=random+height+map+generator

 

chris-2599934 said:

golem841 said:

richardandtracy said:

If you have a Windows PC, I have written a freebie little program to generate a terrain from a height map. The program is available here: http://www.chestnutpens.co.uk/misc/heightmap.html The program UV maps the height map but does not create a texture - sorry!

Regards,

Richard

Looks a really nice and lean piece of software, but one have to find decent resolution DEMs or Height Maps.

I'm not proficient enough to draw these out of nothing in GIMP

One way to create random height maps in GIMP is to create a new grayscale image of whatever size you want. Then select "Filters > Render > Noise > Plasma..." from the menu. For a different look, you can also try "Solid Noise" from the same menu. Of course, this just gives you a random, uneven surface - it won't give you realistic weathering or water features. For that, I find promising leads at https://www.google.com/search?q=random+height+map+generator

I never imagined this could be as simple as that !

There are so many things to experiment.....

WendyLuvsCatz

http://terrain.party/