[Opensim-dev] terraingen

[Nebadon Izumi]

Diva i would like to see this posted on the wiki as a 3rd party tool,
perhaps in the terrain area or related software section.

Nebadon

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:

> Hello devs and users,
>
> I made a utility called terraingen that takes USGS DEM files and
> produces r32 terrains.
> Here's a picture of a terrain generated with terraingen, from Ihaca, NY:
> http://tagide.com/misc/Snapshot_003.JPG
>
> The utility and its source can be found here:
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/terraingen/<http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Elopes/terraingen/>
> The package includes test DEM files of San Francisco.
>
> I tested it on the DEM files I need to handle right now, and it works
> ok, but it's likely that it will have hiccups on other DEM files out
> there. Very concretely, I'm not handling Arc Secs. I didn't test this
> exhaustively. Also, I looked only at the USGS DEM specs, and not other
> variations.
>
> Probably not worth including this in the core OpenSim code, since this
> produces a terrain file that can then be used not just for loading into
> a grid but also for further processing by other peripheral tools. But if
> anyone wants to merge this, or some of it, please go ahead.
>
> Comments, patches, etc. welcome. This is just a first draft of this
> utility. If anyone wants to help improve it, that'd be great!
>
> In the process of doing this, I found another useful tool for
> visualizing and handling topographic data, DEM and R32 files included; I
> thought I'd pass it along:
> http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html
> It's freeware but not open source, as far as I could see. There isn't an
> easy way of specifying size in terms of OpenSim regions. But as
> visualization goes, and input formats, it's pretty good. Too bad the
> source is not open.
>
> Crista / Diva
>
>
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