height map help

Discussion in 'Content Creation' started by oliafro, Nov 4, 2015.

  1. oliafro

    oliafro
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    I was going to attempt to make the nurburging in the game, but i didn't know the best way to create the terrain is there a site i can get the height map from or do i have to do it all by hand?
     
  2. torsion

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    Pretty sure you're going to have to do it by hand. From my understanding the recommendation is to do this in an external program and then export it as a heightmap. At that point you'd import it into BeamNG.

    You're looking at a pretty ambitious project. I don't mean to discourage you from you project, but have you considered doing a made up track first? Properly doing Nürburgring will take hundreds of hours of work.

    Here are some useful resources:
    http://wiki.beamng.com/Content_Creation (reference the Terrain Creation section)
    http://www.beamng.com/threads/tutorial-adding-heightmap-roads-using-blender.16356/

    Note that all of the official tutorials revolve around pay-for terrain modeling programs used in conjunction with Blender (a free program). I've been playing with GeoGen, which is free, but: (A.) I don't find the results to be entirely satisfactory for my purposes with 0.25 meter square sizes. It might be better with 1 meter square sizes. (B.) It's not easy to use. (C.) It's nowhere near as flexible as those programs referenced in the tutorials.
     
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