137k --- I saw a vision of the Madonna!

[Ross Macintosh]

I was just flying my airplane over the frozen Canadian tundra and looking out the window I was awestruck to see a 'vision of the Madonna' in the frozen wasteland. I just had to share...

Regards, Ross

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[Steve Newport]

What program did you use for the landscape? Nice integration, I think it's much easier to bring images into Xara and animate then to get an animating program. I like complete control of an image!

Steve Newport

[Ross Macintosh]

I used xara to convert the Madonna image into a .bmp that I brought into Terragen as a heightmap for terrain modelling. The .bmp created by Terragen was brought into Xara for creation of the animation.

Below is a more artsy-fartsy image created in xara from the same Terragen-created .bmp. I hope you like it. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I just posted a Terragen example in the 3d gallery. It is a little different because it made terrain out of imported text.

Regards, Ross

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[Steve Newport]

Do you have the newest version, 8.44?

You know, you could also if you were bored import the BMP into terragen and overlay it onto the hightmap as a texture and render it. It would look rather interested I'm sure, probably an optical illusion

Nice 2nd version! I've been playing around w/ terragen a lot more lately too. Nice job

Steve Newport

[Ross Macintosh]

this isn't really the place to discuss Terragen in detail: I do find working it in concert with Xara smooooth. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

In Terragen, I can't find how you can use anything other a .srf or .tgw file as a texture. I'd love to be able to use my xara images - explain how to do that and I'll name my next child "Steve"! (or the name of whoever beats you to an explanation).

I do have the latest version thanks to Steve's remarks about it in the New Gear Forum.

The image above looks more like Buddha than Madonna eh?

Regards, Ross

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[Crow Haven]

An interesting mix and results between the different programs!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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Maya

[Steve Newport]

Go here and download what they have to offer and follow the directions. Then double-click the surface layer you want the texture to appear then click the 'textures' option and use on of the image overlay options. I have only used this once or twice so I really don't know how well it turns out! Hope this helps

BTW, Middle name Michael too, alright? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Steve Newport

[Judi A]

Plus it gave me a laugh of the final image of "the" Madonna

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