Hand painted height maps

knak47

Absorbing this info , I get my map imported but everything is so extreme!! highs are way to high and lows are huge crevasses. I am painting with the greyscale specs that are advised and my deviation in greyscale is minimum, but the transition is so harsh. %50 grey as a background with a line at %55 creates a huge difference, I'm talking, not playable.

Oniram

maybe use your handpainted heightmap as a base.. with which you can bring into zbrush or mudbox, apply deformation to a plane and then use that to get a proper heightmap.

knak47

Nice, l'll give that a try.

Eric Chadwick

You can also set the Draw Scale 3D Z value to a lower number. When I import heightmaps from World Machine, I always change it from 256 down to 16 or so.