<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The question may be 20 "what?" on your image.<div><br></div><div>Depending of your software and the kind of color you choose, it can be counted in percent or in 0-255 scale.</div><div><br></div><div>What I did when I encountered the same problem was setting the terrain in world, saving the height map and checking the value. If I remember well, 20meters ended up to be something around 16% grey (which does not find any of the two hypothesis above)</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't have the curiosity to match the result with OpenSim settings about minimum and maximum terrain height. This could be the clue.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>Le 6 mai 2012 à 16:00, Len W. Brown a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div><p>Ah yes, thanks for the trip down memory lane! I remember seeing that over a year back while still pretty active in Second Life.</p><p>Although it hasn't been updated since August of last year, it has helped answer a few of my other questions, however, on the page I am reminded that I continue to be doing something wrong, or else Second Life's servers are better calibrated, because I am reading:</p><p><span>Remember that the water level has a default elevation of 20 meters (with a corresponding gray value of 20), and that an estate owner can change this setting in-world.</span></p><p><span></span>And while this is my objective, the actual height I'm getting in-world is not accurate. Unless maybe by using PNG rather than importing a RAW-generated terrain that is where my trouble stems maybe?</p><p>Thanks again!</p><p>On 05/06/2012 08:23, R.Gunther wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored -->Not sure if you found this one. But here you can find lots of info about Secondlife heightmaps.<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tips_for_Creating_Heightfields_and_Details_on_Terrain_RAW_Files">http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Tips_for_Creating_Heightfields_and_Details_on_Terrain_RAW_Files</a><br><br>On 2012-05-06 15:04, Len W. Brown wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Hi everyone! Google and <a href="http://OpenSimulator.org">OpenSimulator.org</a> haven't provided me a really clear direct answer to this question (yet)...</p><p>I am attempting to create a very crisp heightmap for a tech-based region I'm planning where certain areas must be at precise elevations. I'm trying to choose precise grayscale colors that result in precise elevations.</p><p>I'm having a hard time determining what settings to choose.</p><p>I'm using GiMP and have made multiple attempts this morning creating an image 256X256, grayscale, set to total black and saved as a PNG with zero compression. But when loading in the console ("terrain load 0.png" for example) while it loads "successfully" what I wind up with is a flat terrain that is approximately 12.25 meters in elevation. Not the 0 meters I expected.</p><p>Doing the same as above, but setting the grayscale to 20 on a new image, I expected it to load at sealevel. Instead it loaded at about 25.75 meters elevation.</p><p>I would sincerely appreciate a clear options setting for elevation if this is actually supported with precision in OpenSim 0.7.3.1... Thanks!</p>
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