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craftycurate
9.April2007, 20:24
This is strange. I have created the following 16bit TIFF map in v2 alpha (See first image).

This was then imported into a procedural terrain in Vue 6I using function editor (and also a map filter with Input -1 to 0; Output -1 to 1). If I set the mapping mode to "Object Parametric", the terrain has the following shape, which looks wrong - the Vue terrain is symmetrical, whereas the GeoControl terrain map rises and then falls sharply (see second image).

However, if I now set the mapping to "Object", and the scaling to "3.00", then the Vue terrain does look more like the GeoControl terrain (see third image).

Is this a Vue Issue? (I suspect it might be)

Thanks
Ricahrd

cajomi
10.April2007, 06:08
For the terrain function I always use the automatic mapping mode.

But how can you get the "Object parametric" in the function editor for terrains. There it does not exist.
You should create a terrain, then change to the terrain editor, there change to procedural terrain, and in the terrain editor, change to the panel "Proc." and there edit the function.
You will find, that the maps do not fit exactly, a bug in Vue. To fix this, set the scale (not of the image but of the whole function) to 1.01.

craftycurate
10.April2007, 12:33
The Mapping Mode I refer to is in the "Proc" tab of the terrain editor when you are working with a procedural terrain. See image:

Also, the image scale of 1.01 helps to explain why I've had problems getting seamless terrains to fit together exactly.

cajomi
10.April2007, 12:47
ups, you are right. I then always use "object parametric".

I have just found a really unexpected behavior of Vue:
If you want to get a terrain, which absolutly equals the preview in GC, you should not use the map filter.
I have set the size of the terrain in the tool box on the right of the main window to the values, I had set for the terrain in the terrain panel in GC. And the wonder was, without the map filter, I have got the same results. The proportions were correct.
The problem is the shown bounding box in Vue. It should be sized to the terrain.