Height maps.

[Schwoni]

Someone knows how to crate heigthmaps? or a good programm for that? maps like this

[EVO]

height map?  is that like a bump or super displacement map or something

[Schwoni]

yes something like that, black is flatten and white is a hill. I will try with a greyscale texture.

[Schwoni]

So here a small tutourial, create a texture only white/black, white is heigth and black is flat.
Create a plane> modify> displace> parameters> image: bitmap> load your texture.
in modifier> displacement> strenght u can type values in meters, 100% oppacity is that value u type there. (eg. if you type 2 meters there the part with 100% oppacity will be 2 meters.)
that`s all, now you just have to paint a good height map or find a programm that can use google earth data or something similar.

[EVO]

so the more white the more the the hill? 
how do you this for KRP?

[Schwoni]

what u mean? yes more white higher hill. yes i do for krp it will be the track like motocross

[EVO]

what the heck motocross krp

[Schwoni]

HAHA joke man. just wanted to show how it work. You only have to paint a good heigthmap and a terrain is quite easy done. You also could import terrains using Google sketchup the problem is that it isn`t so fine in some regions. it is much better and more easy as pull and push polygons^^ i think it is the easiest way or i only didn`t know a better one. You only have to be a good painter

[EVO]

i wonder if you can get hieght maps online?  that are better than google.  I agree google gives very rough terrain surface.  I dont mean literally rough I mean just not exact. A track can have elevation change in one particular area that is not picked up by google.   

I think best for our budget would be getting the GPS data from a mychron.  That will give you really precise data. Im pretty sure it gets elevation too.


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[EVO]

I racing tracks are 10 people and upto 6 months