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Nice! I tried doing this a while back and like you found they aren't a silver bullet, but are handy for touching up edited terrain.
-Rob A>
Realistic Elevation Photoshop Brushes
When tackling the problem of creating a realistic elevation map, i tried first to make a set of brushes that i could use to paint in elevation with. These were carefully created from real elevation data. While they certainly work better than painting with round fuzzy brushes, it wasn't entirely what i wanted, and i mostly turned to copy/pasting real elevation into my map. However, i've still found the brushes useful to add in some detail, and some of you may find them useful too. So i present them here.
* To keep the pattern from being too obvious, these brushes are highly randomized in position, opacity, rotation, scale, etc, and some combine 2 graphic elements. Each click will produce a different result.
* Some of these brushed look best with single clicks, and others if you paint a stroke.
* Some of these brushes are extremely large approaching 500 px wide, so the detail is about as high res as i could get it.
* The Brushes are named: "Geo UP..." or "Geo DOWN", as you might expect, these are designed to raise or decrese elevation respectively.
* To keep the image from being absurdly large, i only did about 2/3rds of the brushes in the example image below.
Enjoy.
geobrushes.jpg
Last edited by jwbjerk; 05-11-2010 at 04:45 PM.
Nice! I tried doing this a while back and like you found they aren't a silver bullet, but are handy for touching up edited terrain.
-Rob A>
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Neat stuff, thx for posting.
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Looks amazing, Ill have to try it out tonight...I have a big map I want to make.
Awesomeness in pure form. Here's my reputation for you, very useful.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for these, really great starter pack for making height maps!
Hi, have the attached files been removed? I only see the picture.
Oh nvm, it shows in the desktop view, not in the mobile view.thank you
