Landscaper

Landscaper has been created by mattias fagerlund.

News

2003-02-17: Initial beta release of Landscaper
2003-02-17: Second release, forgot midas.dll

Download Landscaper

Note: This file is a beta release, if it doesn't work on your machine, please let me know!

Click here to download Landscaper. Size=4 073,05 kb, created 2003-02-25 23:04:30.

Eric Grange, the creator of GLScene, has demo called "Archipelago Demo", that features the above texture map. To download it, click here. I plan to include a similar interface in future releases of Landscaper, so users can navigate their terrains.

About Landscaper

BE WARNED: There is no documentation for Landscaper. The only way, currently, to learn how to use Landscaper is to try to alter the included test landscapes.

Landscaper is a program for creating terrain texture maps to use with terrain renderers.

What Landscaper doesn't do:

• It doesn't help you create height maps, I'd recommend World Machine ( http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/world/ ) for that.
• It doesn't create photo realistic snapshots of your terrains, I'd recommend Terragen ( http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ ) or that.
• It doesn't let you navigate your terrain, but I'll add that shortly.

What Landscaper does do

• It lets you create terrain texture maps that can be used in games like Battlefield 1942 or with the included terrain navigator (not currently included).
• It shades and shadows the terrain texture maps, so they get the right depth feeling.
• It can output either one large bitmap, or a number of 1024x1024 bitmaps. The largest tile patchwork I've created was 16535 x 16535, which comes out to 256 images 1024x1024 each. It took 9 hours and 1 GByte. For this, I used a 4096x4096 heightmap and another 4096x4096 sedimentation map.

The image at the top of the page is an example of what Landscaper can do. It was created from two height maps (one for landscape and one for river sedimentation) and a handful of bitmaps. Both height maps were created using World Machine.

Height map for landscape;

Height map for river bed / river sedimentation;

License

Landscaper is free for non commercial use. I will not be held liable for any damage that Landscaper does.

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