Heightmaps?

I suppose this would be a feature most useful to whole-sim owners, as opposed to those of us who own relatively small plots (or, if you're like me, stupidly-small plots; 21 prim limit w00t!), but it'd be interesting if one could generate a bmp or tga heightmap, upload that, and then have SL use this data to terraform the entire plot/sim/whatever in one go. I know a lot of 3D terrain modellers have this feature (Terragen comes to mind, neat stuff that .

Dammit, stop stuffing your faces with turkey, you Yanks, and reply to my thread! Or at least share the turkey with me. I love turkey. Mmm, tryptophan...

please pass the gravy.

wait, i thought you were in europe or somewhere and i just saw you're in canada. you got turkeys in canada! go get you some! if you're not thankful the pilgrims came to america be thankful for beer and beavers or whatever you want.

p.s. i like your idea.

/endorsed but probably impossible. sims use a single terrain prim based on a single raw file.

feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

If you own a sim you already can! Anyone buy me a sim so I can test that out?

Yeah, what he said. Though its not as simple as a traditional heightmap. SL heightmaps have to have several layers. I have a large file about it if anyone's interested. But it's all a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo.

Now that you mention it, yeah, I do vaguely remember reading about heightmappish sorts of things already being implemented. Hey, what can I say? Loose-brained vixen and all that.

OBTurkey: Oddly enough, my cat doesn't like raw turkey. I thought all cats liked raw turkey. She's an odd one though.