Terrain Model

There are several items for sale that allow you to capture the terrain from a sim then have that terrain rendered as a tga and placed on a sculptie to create a sim model.

My quesiton, is there anyway to convert a RAW file generated from backhoe or some other off grid terrain editing program into a TGA file so you can display the terrain map as a scupltie for other sim coowners etc to evalute?

Any thoughts?

I am pretty sure photoshop or gimp can do this easily.

im pretty sure sl uses just a heightmap.
you must give that heightmap one color and add 2 gardients, horizontal and vertical, in the 2 other colors.

then theres a 50/50 chance that your sculptmaps normals are flipped, inside out.
then there are are a few chances that your sculptmap is mirrored, some combinations wont matter because you can fix them with rotation.
in both cases you must invert the image or mirror/invert one of the gardients.

Well, there must be a solution, I bought a device called Land Sculptor off of SLX that generates the sculpt texture, the raw file, and the map image, and uploads it to a webpage where you can download. You drop the script in the sim and have it do it's stuff, takes a minute or two, then you have 2 hrs to download the goodies from the website. $1500L, but it is worth it. If you're looking for a product that will provide your solution, I can vouch for it's ease of use and the quality of the product.


http://www.secondscripter.com/

Johan - I saw your post and decided to add export of sculpties to my (free) Bailiwick sim raw file editor. This should allow you to open a raw file and generate a sculpty of the terrain which you can view in world. Bailiwick 1.2 beta will generate the sculpty as a png, not a tga though. I'd be interested in knowing if it worked for you (and others).

http://spinmass.blogspot.com/2008/06/export-sculpties-from-bailiwick-12-beta.html

Also, I thought I'd mention that I give away something called Terrain Sculptor which maps the terrain of (live) sims, and can save the resulting heightmap as a sculpty. It uses a libsl bot however, not a scripted object. This is lazy, but here is a link to my blog where there are downloads of Terrain Sculptor (I keep putting off updating my web site).

http://www.spinmass.blogspot.com/

The Bailiwick export is a band-aid because I've been working on something which sort of combines Bailiwick and Terrain Sculptor with a 3D viewer and editor for sim terrain, so that's really my focus. Maybe I'll finish that this summer.

I've used Emma's Land Sculptor, Cadroe's Baliwick/Terrain Sculptor, and Anjin's Terrain Mapper. They are all very good tools for generating scale models of SIM's. Unfortunately, I need to do the same thing but for OpenSIM!

Now that Cadroe's Baliwick generates the scale model sculptie, I am 1/2 way there.

I would like to find out how to generate the world map in a .tga or .png file. I've heard of the print screen trick but is there a relatively simple LSL way to get a copy of the world map for an estate?