{"id":6643,"date":"2011-05-16T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6643"},"modified":"2011-05-12T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:30:02","slug":"playing-with-geocontrol2-and-vue-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6643","title":{"rendered":"Playing with GeoControl2 and Vue – part one"},"content":{"rendered":"

I happened to get a very good price on a new piece of extremely cool software, GeoControl2<\/a>, an offer I could not refuse and the godfather would have said. To describe it in one sentence, I would say: It’s like a FilterForge for making landscape and mountain formations.<\/em> And for me who is artistically impaired and cannot draw anything without computerized help (maybe there is a hidden EC fund \u00a0for us, who knows). Even making good looking mountains in either Bryce<\/a> which I’ve had since version 2 and now Vue<\/a> is difficult when you can’t really draw things. I know how you would like it to look, but I fail epically everytime I try to draw something by hand.<\/p>\n

So let is scratch the surface of this, there will be many more in depth posts about this later on I think, I’ve found a new baby toy to play with.<\/p>\n

First, when you start GeoControl2, you will see a top down view of a randomly generated mountain. You can fiddle with filters and things (I said I will dig deeper into this later, I’m still learning) <\/em>to craft and shape your mountain.<\/p>\n

I fast forward a bit here, and this is the 2D view of my first mountain that didn’t look like crap. (Why cant I just fiddle carefully, but have to tweak everything and try everything until the result is crap, then start over…<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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The colors represent heights. You can now see the details of this, it is brilliant. And here is the 3D view of this mountain.<\/p>\n

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Now I exported this in a Vue .TGA height map format. Vue can read many formats but this was an option so I tried it. Now I started Vue, and created a terrain object, it looks like this in the top view.<\/p>\n

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I went into edit o the terrain in the terrain editor, and this is how it looks there.<\/p>\n

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Now I did import image, and selected the new image I just generated in GeoControl2. I set the Proportion to 100% (only the imported image, but you can use this to blend different maps together. I got some ideas for a FilterForge filter to make terrain maps, but GC2 is all that and much more.<\/p>\n

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When the terrain was loaded it was way to high, something I need to learn to control in GC2, but this is how it looked.<\/p>\n

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Now I went to the material painting, one of my favorite tools in Vue, that I never got the grip of in Bryce. You add materials and then you give each a color to represent the material, then you paint (which isn’t really my thing as I paint like a lame cow<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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But the result looks promising, green and grey goo.<\/p>\n

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So, how will this turn out? Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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