   My Terrain Generator. (screen & video)
  Hi AllJust a quickie to show some videos of the results generated from a Max plugin we have written as one of the many tools for our main product, it kinda took on a life of its own and its been suggested it could make a product in its own right.Fly Around the Med 22MBQuick Zoom 2MBMars 9MBYou will need the DivX codec installed by the way.ThanksChrisQuick grabs.MarsGrand CanyonMount St HelensSouthern SpainI forget :)Also a blank :)[Edited by - spookycat on April 9, 2010 5:37:42 PM]
  DivX is lame,  use .wmv   ;  I seem to get a much better quality result for a lot less file size with DivX compared to wmv. Though I am by no means an expert on Max rendering settings :)   ;Quote:Original post by JTWattersDivX is lame,  use .wmvI must be lame then. I love DivX, hate .wmv...;  .WMV is a great way to get virii.   ;  Nice looking screenies man. GJ!   ;  Thanks. Guess the screens don't really convey the plugin too well, as they don'y show the ease with which such scenes are made. The plugin automatically downloads the elevation data from the internet if it isn't cached on the machine and handles joining the tiles together. It will also automatically plug any holes in the data as can be seen in the pics below. The scenes can go down to 30m res in the US and 90m for everywhere else, and the colour data is seasonal as can be seen in the Med movie above, so you can see the show forming on the mountains. Everything is animatable in Max so you can easily make an animation for any spot on the earth/mars flying to any other spot, zooming in/out as you wish etc. The terrain can be exported to bitmaps, Terragen or Vterrain files as can the colour info, so it works quite nicely as a tool for stitching together DEM files etc.It took a fair old time to build the database for all the tile info with well over a million images being generated and processed and a fair few Gigabytes of data processed. Not sure how much interest there will be in plugin but there dosn't seem to be anything else that is as easy to use for Max for generating such meshes. Anyway glad you liked the pics.ChrisUnplugged.Plugged.;  Great job!  When will you release this to the public?   ;  Screenies look very nice   ;  you talk about 90m dems for non us areas, can you give us your source? last time i searched the best i could find is like 1km outside us (DEMs that is)and yes, i think that could be a real nice tool (looks great), like Worldwind is... afaik worldwind cant exportT2k   