Higher quality grayscale?

Mike Norton

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Jan 15, 2017, 11:33:25 PM1/15/17

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Hello everyone.

I just spent the day falling in love with the idea of World Engine today. I quickly tired a few seeds and came up with something I wanted to use in unreal. I exported the grayscale height map but when I tried to import it into UE it had terrible spikes and just did not look great. I looked at the produced GS image and noticed it was rather pixelated instead of smooth.

Am I missing a setting or an option to produce a usable height map?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

bret curtis

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Jan 16, 2017, 7:55:09 AM1/16/17

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Hello Mike,

if yo have WE installed with GDAL you can export in other formats and
higher bpp. Greyscale is horrible as most are just 8-bit, but there
exists 16-bit PNG greyscale which might help you. I would recommend
32-bit RAW, but I'm not sure what works best for Unreal. Please
experiment and post your results back to use! :)

Cheers,
Bret

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Mike Norton

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Jan 16, 2017, 10:41:01 AM1/16/17

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Thanks Bret. I am trying to export out as different formats but so far am not having any luck.

I have the latest Windows BIN's installed. And even with using the --export-format set to something other than PNG it wants to just output a PNG that windows says is 16 bit but still pixelated.

I have tried using the export option but have been unable to get it to run.

Still trying to get it to work and will report back. .

Mike Norton

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Jan 16, 2017, 11:16:40 AM1/16/17

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Well, it appears the export function is hardcoded to point to an incorrect file location.

E:\worldengine>worldengine.exe export NoobLand4.world --export-format PNG --export-datatype uint16

Worldengine - a world generator (v. 0.19.0)

-----------------------

name : NoobLand4

width : 505

height : 505

seed : 6883

no plates : 25

ocean level : 1.000000

step : full

has biome : True

has humidity : True

has irrigation : True

has permeability : True

has watermap : True

has precipitations : True

has temperature : True

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 6, in <module>

File "C:\Users\psi29a\Workspace\worldengine\build\worldengine\out00-PYZ.pyz\cli.main", line 600, in main

File "C:\Users\psi29a\Workspace\worldengine\build\worldengine\out00-PYZ.pyz\worldengine.imex", line 95, in export