Fun With Height Maps (Terragen)

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:51 pm

This isn't a good render, I'm just playing around with making height maps in photoshop and importing them into terragen:

The text isn't photoshoped in there, its raised terrain.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:14 pm

thereis a similar tool in 3dsmax.Its called `displace` modifier.Zou overlaya a texture over a Plane and then it extrudes the text.Fo that Purpose you would use black and white.Black text band white background.
RIGHT?

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:53 pm

Patrickssj6 wrote:thereis a similar tool in 3dsmax.Its called `displace` modifier.Zou overlaya a texture over a Plane and then it extrudes the text.Fo that Purpose you would use black and white.Black text band white background.
RIGHT?

Almost, black background, white text.

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:08 pm

Cool concept. I can think of a couple ways you could expand on that.