koobas.hobune.stream
Importing RAW heightmaps into GIMP
I'm using a Mac, BTW.
I want to export a terrain from Unity, perform some manipulations in GIMP (want to raise the terrain uniformly so I can carve deep valleys), and then reimport back into Unity. I'm having a hard time with the import to GIMP, as everything is grayscale but GIMP only seems to understand RGB RAWs.
Anyone seen, hopefully conquered this issue?
If GI$$anonymous$$P simply can't handle grayscale RAW images, is there any other (cheap or free) $$anonymous$$ac-friendly image editing software (or dedicated heightmap editing) software that folks can recommend?
How are you doing the export? DEM's (if that's what you're doing) are generally 16-bit grayscale. If GIMP can handle them, then it should be ok, my version (2) does not seem to have that.
I'm exporting the heightmap by choosing Terrain->Export Heightmap. Is there another way? The only options I see when I export the terrain are Depth and ByteOrder. I'm choosing 16-Bit and $$anonymous$$ac, respectively. It then makes a 16-bit grayscale RAW image.
Thanks for your help!
Looks like you'll need Gimp 2.8 http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-8-new-features
