terrain generator 2005-04-13 - By Pingo
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Hey Tim. Dunno if this helps, but recently I had a look at making
landscapes in xsi. I used an application called world machine to
generate the terain files. (It's very cheap and quite good IMHO!). Then
when I wanted to use the maps in XSI I found it very annoying that the
displacement in XSI doesn't show in the viewport. So I tried some
different plugins.
One is called Subdivide Displace and works really well.
http://www.mindthink.de/ohm/subdividedisplace
the other one is called EM_Displacer
http://www.xsibase.com/tools/plugins.php?detail=507
that one is good one to have also.
Mindthinktools' Subdivide Displace gave me the advantage, that I could
actually see what I was displacing in the viewport, and it subdivided
around sharp peaks. AFTERWARDS I was then able to let XSI itself
subdivide further (with SubdivideDisplace height turned to zero), but
only in the areas where it was needed... kinda exponential:-/
have a look at those plugins, and world machine, and see if they can
help you some.
cheers
On Apr 13, 2005, at 2:54, Tim Thorburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the world of XSI, so please forgive me if this is an overly
> noob-ish question. Recently I purchased XSI Foundation 4.2 coming
> from a mostly LW background. I'm not preparing to go to my first
> SIGGRAPH this summer and am working on a small demo reel. My question
> is this - in LW when it came time to make terrains I would most often
> turn to Terragen as it easily imported into LW. What do ppl in XSI
> land use for terrain generators?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Tim
>
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