Height Map Terrain Generator

Height Map Terrain Generator - Houdini 12.1 to Houdini 15.5

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Create terrain from black and white images.

Simply feed a standard 8, 16 or 32 bit black and white height map and watch your mountains grow!

Options for simplifying, smoothing and texturing your terrain as well as a "create higher res patch" option in case you need extra detail in just one area.

Thanks to Ziggy Ostertag who supplied the original file from which this asset was derived.

FAQ

Q: I can't see my geometry, where is it?
A:by default the asset creates a mesh that is 1 vertex for every pixel in
the source image. The relative size of these meshes are often HUGE....so
giant that you have to zoom out to see it.

Two things to try:
Select the terrain node in the network view. then move your mouse over
the main 3d viewport and hit space-g. This will home the view to what
ever is selected.

Or you could just scale the whole terrain to .1 and see if it's visible.

If that doesn't do it, then go to the heightmap image pulldown menu and
select one of the default images.

If you have used a custom image, then check the following:
If you are using a standard jpeg, you should be plugging it in under the
8-bit pulldown.
If you have an HDR,EXR, tiff16 or tiff 32 then use the pulldown under the
16-32 bit image area.

Also, if your custom image has all values which are ALL slightly higher
that 0,0,0 (total black)
Then your terrain will be slightly higher than you might expect...maybe
several hundred meters!

Height Map Terrain Generator

Author:	SideFX
Version:	9
Asset Type:	Object node
Dependencies:	None
File Size:	108.51MB
Created:	Jul 23, 2012
Terms of Use:	Standard License
Compatibility:	Houdini 12.1 to Houdini 15.5
Supported In:

Version 9 - July 23, 2012

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Version 8 - July 12, 2012

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Version 7 - July 6, 2012

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Version 6 - June 26, 2012

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Version 3 - June 5, 2012

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Version 2 - June 5, 2012

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