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UPDATE - Need Help ASAP! - Modifying Terrain Objects....

UPDATE - Need Help ASAP! - Modifying Terrain Objects....

2004-02-09       - By ccoles_avengers

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I have also provided a CAR file of the exact terrain that I am using.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carrara/files/world%20map_terrain%20relief.car

Thanks.

Claudia
"Selocic"
(a newbie)

--- In Carrara@(protected), "ccoles_avengers" <ccoles_shado@(protected)>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry for the urgent post but I have been trying to tackle this for
> quite sometime and have not yet found a remedy.  
>
> This evening I have a meeting at which I would like to present a rough
> draft of a logo that I have working on.  I'm trying to show a variety
> of materials and I am finding that any glass or transparent material
> shows the "plane" part of the relief of a world map I am using.  I
> simply want the "relief" part; that is to say, just the countries.  
>
> Even though this is a rough draft, I don't want it to be THAT rough.
> There's got to be a way of selecting or cutting out and keeping only
> the "relief" part of the terrain map and leaving the "plane" behind.
> I tried to convert the terrain map to a vertex to attack it that way
> but it looses all of its detailed relief information.  I tried
> importing it into AMAPI, but still got the same problem; complete loss
> of detail in the relief.
>
> Could anyone please shed any light on this?  We meet only once a month
> and I wanted to have something to show them.  I can show them the logo
> drafts made from other materials, but the glass one looks really nice
> and wanted to push that one.  We meet in a couple of hours.  Any help
> would be MOST appreciated.
>
> Here is the bitmap that I used in the Terrain Modeler:
>
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carrara/files/earthspec1_reverse%20matte.bmp
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Claudia
> "Selocic"
> (a newbie)



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