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Anyone around who knows how to create terrain .raw in photoshop?
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Opensimulator supports PNG, RAW, R32, and unlike SL, TER (Terragen) formats. PNG is the most basic way. You can save or load any of these and convert back and forth using the console commands. PNG seems to be less accurate to me, so I save in r32 when possible after editing in PNG.
This also includes JPG, which produces a map colored by blue/green values.
DreamGrid has a free, open source library of terrains , a link to a dropbox full of them, in all these formats is here.
I always start with a terrain I saved that has various steps made in world. Just below water, at water, different hills. Export it as PNG and JPG, then I use those in a paint program to paint these "swatches" and then blur them with a brush.
Opensimulator Console commands:
Some of these may require a sim restart to show properly.
terrain load - Loads a terrain from a specified file.
terrain load-tile - Loads a terrain from a section of a larger file.
terrain save - Saves the current heightmap to a specified file.
terrain save-tile - Saves the current heightmap to the larger file.
terrain fill - Fills the current heightmap with a specified value.
terrain elevate - Raises the current heightmap by the specified amount.
terrain lower - Lowers the current heightmap by the specified amount.
terrain multiply - Multiplies the heightmap by the value specified.
terrain bake - Saves the current terrain into the regions baked map.
terrain revert - Loads the baked map terrain into the regions heightmap.
terrain show - Shows terrain height at a given co-ordinate.
terrain stats - Shows some information about the regions heightmap for debugging purposes.
terrain effect - Runs a specified plugin effect
terrain flip - Flips the current terrain about the X or Y axis
terrain rescale - Rescales the current terrain to fit between the given min and max heights
terrain min - Sets the minimum terrain height to the specified value.
terrain max - Sets the maximum terrain height to the specified value.
terrain modify - Provides several area-of-effect terraforming commands.
If you have a sim with multiple regions and you want to set all regions on that sim to be from one larger image you can use 'terrain load where regionX and regionY are the coordinates of the bottom-left region.
More information is in help terrain in Opensim's region console
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Free_Terrains
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This also includes JPG, which produces a map colored by blue/green values.
DreamGrid has a free, open source library of terrains , a link to a dropbox full of them, in all these formats is here.
I always start with a terrain I saved that has various steps made in world. Just below water, at water, different hills. Export it as PNG and JPG, then I use those in a paint program to paint these "swatches" and then blur them with a brush.
Opensimulator Console commands:
Some of these may require a sim restart to show properly.
terrain load - Loads a terrain from a specified file.
terrain load-tile - Loads a terrain from a section of a larger file.
terrain save - Saves the current heightmap to a specified file.
terrain save-tile - Saves the current heightmap to the larger file.
terrain fill - Fills the current heightmap with a specified value.
terrain elevate - Raises the current heightmap by the specified amount.
terrain lower - Lowers the current heightmap by the specified amount.
terrain multiply - Multiplies the heightmap by the value specified.
terrain bake - Saves the current terrain into the regions baked map.
terrain revert - Loads the baked map terrain into the regions heightmap.
terrain show - Shows terrain height at a given co-ordinate.
terrain stats - Shows some information about the regions heightmap for debugging purposes.
terrain effect - Runs a specified plugin effect
terrain flip - Flips the current terrain about the X or Y axis
terrain rescale - Rescales the current terrain to fit between the given min and max heights
terrain min - Sets the minimum terrain height to the specified value.
terrain max - Sets the maximum terrain height to the specified value.
terrain modify - Provides several area-of-effect terraforming commands.
If you have a sim with multiple regions and you want to set all regions on that sim to be from one larger image you can use 'terrain load where regionX and regionY are the coordinates of the bottom-left region.
More information is in help terrain in Opensim's region console
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Free_Terrains
May use any editor.
Format must be TGA or PNG
1 pixel for 1 meter on terrain: for 256x256 region 256x256 pixels or for 2048x2048 meters-> 2048x2048 pixels.
Golor mode: 8 bit!!! RGB Grayscale!!!
0= -127m under water
255= 127m in mountains.
Use terminal commants to load or adjust: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Server_Commands#Terrain_Comm...
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Format must be TGA or PNG
1 pixel for 1 meter on terrain: for 256x256 region 256x256 pixels or for 2048x2048 meters-> 2048x2048 pixels.
Golor mode: 8 bit!!! RGB Grayscale!!!
0= -127m under water
255= 127m in mountains.
Use terminal commants to load or adjust: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Server_Commands#Terrain_Comm...
Okay so 1024x1024 greyscale png where 122 122 122 is sea level. Sounds easy enough. Will try!
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I could be wrong (but it's already happened once this year, so that oughta be my quota), but I think it won't fundamentally matter at which point in the 256 scale you put the sea, as long as you have enough room either side to move. You can just adjust the terrain (and / or water) height later ;-)
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For os, completely disregard anything to do with sl's use of heightmaps. Opensim can import / use them, but they are still broken.
Way easier to just create pure and simple ones and load them via a sim console.
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Way easier to just create pure and simple ones and load them via a sim console.
Oh.... one more neat trick...
You can also load an oar with the --no-objects argument. That way, you only get the terrain ;-)
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You can also load an oar with the --no-objects argument. That way, you only get the terrain ;-)
Fine then!!!! More neat tricks!!!!one!!
You can then use the sim console to issue a range of commands to toy with the terrain. All sortsa stuffs - too much to mention here. Just see http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Server_Commands for a start.
I've taken some oars, used the --no-objects arg to load just the terrain, then played around around to get some stuff that's pretty cool for intended purposes ;-)
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You can then use the sim console to issue a range of commands to toy with the terrain. All sortsa stuffs - too much to mention here. Just see http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Server_Commands for a start.
I've taken some oars, used the --no-objects arg to load just the terrain, then played around around to get some stuff that's pretty cool for intended purposes ;-)
OMGGG I BARELY managed to get my own test grid in Ubuntu in a cheap VPS following blinding steps from an old video from DIVA...most comands really fly over my head lol
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This looks interesting https://youtu.be/k5uKJEF-ZWw I always go here for my RAW terrains: https://opensimworld.com/hop/82029'
And all these resources: Procedural Terrain Generation: The Worldbuilding School offers a tutorial on generating random terrain using Photoshop's built-in filters. This method involves rendering clouds and applying threshold adjustments to create unique landmasses.
WORLDBUILDING SCHOOL
3D Terrain Mapping from Google Maps: For those interested in creating 3D terrain maps without additional plugins, there's a YouTube tutorial that demonstrates how to use Photoshop to transform Google Maps data into 3D terrain models.
YOUTUBE
Topographic Map Patterns: To create topographic map effects, another YouTube tutorial guides you through designing detailed patterns using a combination of Photoshop filters and techniques.
YOUTUBE
Fantasy Map Creation: If you're aiming to design a fantasy map, Instructables provides a step-by-step guide on crafting a random continent map in Photoshop, covering aspects from coastline creation to biome coloring.
INSTRUCTABLES
Terrain Texture Creation: For those focusing on texturing, CRYENGINE's tutorial explains how to use Photoshop's high pass filter to convert photo source material into seamless albedo terrain textures.
CRYENGINE
That was with a quick AI search. Good Luck on this project :)
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And all these resources: Procedural Terrain Generation: The Worldbuilding School offers a tutorial on generating random terrain using Photoshop's built-in filters. This method involves rendering clouds and applying threshold adjustments to create unique landmasses.
WORLDBUILDING SCHOOL
3D Terrain Mapping from Google Maps: For those interested in creating 3D terrain maps without additional plugins, there's a YouTube tutorial that demonstrates how to use Photoshop to transform Google Maps data into 3D terrain models.
YOUTUBE
Topographic Map Patterns: To create topographic map effects, another YouTube tutorial guides you through designing detailed patterns using a combination of Photoshop filters and techniques.
YOUTUBE
Fantasy Map Creation: If you're aiming to design a fantasy map, Instructables provides a step-by-step guide on crafting a random continent map in Photoshop, covering aspects from coastline creation to biome coloring.
INSTRUCTABLES
Terrain Texture Creation: For those focusing on texturing, CRYENGINE's tutorial explains how to use Photoshop's high pass filter to convert photo source material into seamless albedo terrain textures.
CRYENGINE
That was with a quick AI search. Good Luck on this project :)
It's just a 256 shade greyscale heightmap. But be aware that sl screwed up the channel format a very long time ago and never bothered to address it. In os, just use a png ;-)
Also, just gonna go ahead and say use the gimp - screw photo$hop :p
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Also, just gonna go ahead and say use the gimp - screw photo$hop :p