Heightmap Help

DEADSCAPE · June 11, 2023

Recently I have gotten into Terrain Creation, however, I am trying to find out how to get height maps. I was using the following, however, I think I made mistakes:

https://heightmap.skydark.pl/

The Map Size on the heightmap generator isn’t based on km^2, but actually km, and after reading a comment on a Terrain Creation tutorial they stated that the Map Size was just the length of one size and not the area. Seems about right because my map seems small in comparison to actual size of island in the real world. Anyone have any answers on that.

Also which heightmap generator do y’all use, or do you create your own?

DrunkenTigerSleepingDragon · February 17, 2015

Hi..

I would recommend using QGIS.
In QGIS you also need to install the Game Terrain Tools plugin (gtt.zip version is for Enfusion)
Link to download and setup tutorial: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/224613-qgis-game-terrain-tools/

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Link to some tutorials by Piano_Man for using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLSOwWJYCo&t=506s

(Watch part 1 to 4)

From here you can either use heightmap and satellite map download through gtt. Or you can add custom WCS, WMS and WFS api connections to access data. You can also download heightdata in DEM or DTM from websites manually to import to QGIS