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How to create Heightmap image in C4D to transfer terrain from C4D to Unity?

Discussion in 'Formats & External Tools' started by Kaya, Jan 23, 2011.

  1. Kaya

    Kaya

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    Unity can import a greyscale Heightmap image as terrain.

    I have a large (approx 3 million vertices) terrain in Cinema 4D.

    How to save this terrain in C4D as Heightmap image so that I can import into Unity 3D ?

    Unfortunatelly Unity can only handle upto 65000 vertices. That is why I will downsample the Heightmap image before importing into Unity.

    -Kaya
     
    Kaya, Jan 23, 2011
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  2. Achim

    Achim

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    you have to bake a heightmaptexture. bake it in the illumination channel with a black/white gradient and change the gradient to 3D linear and set the y-values to -100 (start) and 100 (end), i think it should be baked in 16bit. then save it in photoshop as photoshopraw non-interleaved and it should work. (worked here with R10.5 and Photoshop elements)

    Achim
     
    Achim, Jan 23, 2011
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