• Maxon Cinema 4D

  DEM – STDS – GRID FLOAT

  Posted by Glenn Tak on April 25, 2008 at 8:27 pm

  Does anyone work with real terrains and displacement maps these days?

  I used to be able to download Grayscale DEM renderings and use them but they are very hard to find. The USGS has switched to the STDS format. There doesn’t seem to be any MAC translators for these files to render out the displacement maps.

  I have found a program called Natural Scene Designer which can apparently import STDS data and create terrains but I would rather keep things in CD4

  Can anyone suggest a work flow? I need to deal with Mt St Helens and Mt Rainer and would like to build them accurately with Displacement

  Thanks

  TAK

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  Glenn Tak replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  April 26, 2008 at 6:38 am

  https://virtualhiker.sourceforge.net/file-formats.html (maybe useful – haven’t had time to test) — [edit] nope too old

  https://www.jizoh.jp/english.html (don’t know if it will read SDTS but it will save greyscale that can be used as displacement data)
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  Glenn Tak

  April 30, 2008 at 11:04 pm

  Thanks!

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