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Real World Mountain elevation data
Hey guys!
Long time lurker... recent poster... Love the site, I've just never been able to get a map going that I really wanted to pursue... There was always something with the way that mountains, and mountain rangers were rendered...
I was so tired of my mountains looking like mounds... Or piles of dirt, when real world mountains have water erosion like this:
Well... I decided I had to have real world mountains. So I went and found a tutorial ( here ) that showed me how to export height maps from google earth. (I found the usgs site very unfriendly...)
Once I got some nice dense mountains into photoshop, I spent most of the day creating a tileable (that is: seamless edges) realworld mountain texture.
Then, I defined it as a pattern in photoshop, and painted this pattern on a new layer with a blend mode of screen, overtop of my original export from Fractal Terrains.
My original image with the "mounds" of mountains was this:
And with about 2 minutes of painting, I was able to turn it into this:
I was so happy, I decided I'd share it with the class!
So... you can download the full tileable mountain image
RIGHT HERE!
(graciously stored on forum.cartographersguild.com!!)
I hope you all find it useful. Feel free to use it at your leisure. The only thing I ask is that you give credit where credit is due
Thanks!!
-Jay-Nic
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I could see this being handy, especially for the pattern mappers. Probably need a few more just for variety's sake but good stuff nonetheless. If you make some hills I'll surely snag those.
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All this on a first post, and no rep?!?
Gonna fix that right now!!
Nicely done.
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It never occurred to me to make a seamless pattern out of a heightmap. Interesting.
You may want to take a look at Wilbur, which is capable of creating those erosion valleys. It's not perfect, and it demands a lot of CPU cycles, but it is definitely a worthwhile program.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
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