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SageTech
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Posted: 10th Mar 2005 05:49
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For school we are doing a project and one of the options was to make a 3d model of Norway. So I asked if i could do it on the computer, and i can! So i figure ill get a height map of Norway and put some stuff around the screen to make it look like a plane. Any idea where i could get hieght map of Norway that i could use in my project to make a 3d map (i mean the kind geoscape can export,and yes i checked google)

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Jimmy
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Posted: 10th Mar 2005 05:56
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PROGRAMMING TO DO IT? HFPG!!!!


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SageTech
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Posted: 10th Mar 2005 06:00
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ya i have one day, no time to model it for real

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you could write a program to scan images of maps with contour lines and convert this to a heightmap or polygon based model.

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SageTech
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Posted: 10th Mar 2005 07:04
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i rather have a ready made one, anyone here no off one?

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GothOtaku
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It might be easier to get a map of Normway and draw the contour lines in Paint and then fill them in with the appropriate color to use as a heightmap.
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BearCDPOLD
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Just load a picture of Norway and make it so that you can click on areas and see close up models or pictures of it.


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SageTech
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could this be a hieghtmap somehow?

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No, there's way too much information on that map to be used as a heightmap, for example, all that red would come out as flat land above the ocean where in real life that red is actually part of the ocean.

Apart from that though, you're going to have a very hard time finding Norway on that map!


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SageTech
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Posted: 11th Mar 2005 04:23
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im aware of that, just seeing how stuff could be converted

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bitJericho
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lol.. is that a map of australia??^_^

Aye, I agree with GothOtaku, get yourself a nice simple map of norway, and draw in some height lines, and then file them in with nice solid grays, the darker the gray, the lower the level.. then when you're all done, blur the grays together and you got a nice heightmap


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Posted: 11th Mar 2005 06:31
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This could be useful http://carto.eu.org/article2457.html

All it took was a search of "norway topography" on google

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tis what i found, but it wasnt a hieght map so i ended up just making my own. thanks for the tips guys

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That can be a height map, just fill in the colours with shades of grey.

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