Export to RAW 16 bit Intel byte-order

Bug Reports
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I am trying to use World Machine to create the heightmaps for the battlefield 2 (BF2) game engine. BF2 requires the heightmaps to be in a specific format to read and it appears that WM doesn’t quite support this. So I wanted to post here and see if anyone has any suggestions.

Here’s what I have found to work…

  1. Create a 512x512 terrain in world machine (WM) and save it as a terragen file.
  2. Open the .ter file in terragen (free version) and export as a RAW 16-bit Intel byte-order (.raw) file.

Where this doesn’t work for me is I am trying to create terrains larger than 512x512. I really don’t want to purchase terragen ($99 USD) just to perform this conversion. I have also been told that photoshop would work for me, but again, I’m not interested in shelling out that much money just to convert a file.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Are there free or inexpensive tools that would perform this conversion for larger size terrains?

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Try exporting as a 16bit raw from WM (.r16) and renaming to .raw.

3

I’ve tried that but that doesn’t seem to load in the editor correctly. I’m not sure why that doesn’t work but exporting from terragen does.

4

Here are two screenshots of what a 512x512 map looks like in the bfeditor.

This image below was a WM terrain exported to terragen, then opened in terragen and saved as a RAW 16-bit Intel byte-order (.raw) file.

This image below was a WM terrain saved as .r16, then renamed to .raw and then opened in the bfeditor.

5

That kind of artifact is usually seen when you have an off-by-1 size mismatch; ie WM is exporting 512x512 and the editor is expecting 513x513. Do you have any control over what dimensions of data it expects to see as input (ie you can set it to 1 less?))

6

Unfortunately I can’t. I guess that could be a reason why terragen works because it exports to 513x513.

I tried taking the .r16 file and resizing it but that didn’t seem to work.

7

TG0.9.19 can load heightfiels larger than 513 - unlike 0.9.43, give it a try :slight_smile:

8

I’m not familiar with TG0.9.19. What is that?

9

terragen version 0.9.19, using this version, you can open large heightfields too :slight_smile:

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