[GRASSLIST:2573] RE: World Renders

Thomas Adams Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
Thu Feb 12 07:48:57 EST 2004


Matthew,



I would try using Generic Mapping Tools (GMT): http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/

Regards,
Tom


dylan wrote:

>at what scale would these images be?
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>for an entire planet, xplantet might work
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>for larger scales (i.e. smaller regions) POVRAY might do the trick....
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>and both of those are free.
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>dylan
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>on 04.2.11 3:14 PM, Matthew Gillard at mattgurugillard at hotmail.com was
>reported to have writen:
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>>On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:55:19PM +0200, Matt Comb wrote:
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>>>I am currently programming a game that requires views of the
>>>world and have been trying to find some software to render
>>>views of the world.
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>>>Unfortunatley they are all very pricing and trying to recreate
>>>something that is up to date and cheap has been the challenge.
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>>>I am wondering if anyone could help me out by batch rendering a
>>>number of views of the world if I was to supply information.
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>>>In return they would get a mention in the games credits.
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>>>P.S. The game is a large networked game, and we don't have the cpu
>>>time to render on the fly, thats why the images will be prerendered.
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>>I know it's been a while since you posted it but I'm quite keen to get into
>>a new project and have some spare time at the moment. This sounds
>>interesting! Do you have any screenshots of the current state of the project
>>or a demo?
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>>How much information are you expecting to have to send across the internet?
>>ie. Do the rendered pictures have to be online or on the users computer?
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>>Will the renders need to be updatable with in-game information?
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>>Look forward to your reply
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