Terraign editor for the freeware raytracer: POV. Features fractal landscape generation, colormap editor, 3D preview, importing, and a suite of landscape editing tools. Requires: 386 or better and VESA SVGA adaptor with at least 512 Kb memory. Shareware: $5.
- What is POV?
POV stands for Persistance Of Vision. That is the title of a very amazing freeware raytracer.
- what is Terrain Maker?
Terrain Maker is a landscape editor. It offers powerful tools for creating and editing all kinds of landscapes that can be used as heightfields in POV.
- picture formats and extensions
Terrain Maker works only with gif (87a spec.) files. Height fields saved by Terrain Maker have the extension .ghf (Gif Heightfield). Terrain Maker can import any image as long as it is in gif format.
- Using the mouse with Terrain Maker.
Terrain Maker is fully mouse driven. To activate any button on the screen , simply move the mouse cursor over it and click any mouse button once. To use any of the drawing tools on the heightfield, simply hold down one of the mouse buttons while the cursor is in the heightfield work area.
- using slider tools
Slider tools look like the scrollbars used in many Windoze applications. To use a slider, you can press a mouse button while the cursor is on the square in the middle of the tool and drag it around to change the particular value associated with tho tool, or you can click on one of the arrows to change the value by one unit.
- Hot keys.
If you see a yellow letter on a button, you can access that button by pressing that letter! YAY!
- Available functions and video memory.
Terrain Maker likes to use to two video pages at 800x600x256 resolution. This means that your video card should have at least 1 MEG of video ram. Terrain Maker will still work on cards with only half that, but certain functions will be unavailable. Specifically, these functions are: pseudo 3D,undo,remember,lava
Note: some video cards do not perform page flipping properly.
- WINDOWS
Terrain Maker does not behave well under Windows. Exit to DOS before you use it.
File List:
CRETE.RGB
3Kb
DOCS.TXT
12Kb
EXAMPLE.GHF
172Kb
EXAMPLE.JPG
72Kb
EXAMPLE.POV
3Kb
EXAMPLE.TXT
2Kb
FILE_ID.DIZ
314b
HISTORY.TXT
1Kb
LAND.WNF
6Kb
LNDCSR.MSE
386b
MOON.RGB
3Kb
PACKING.LST
1Kb
README.TXT
5Kb
REGISTER.FRM
1Kb
STANDARD.RGB
3Kb
SVGADIAG.EXE
138Kb
TM.EXE
257Kb
TMFONT.FNT
4Kb
TMKR.GIF
11Kb
TMKR11.TXT
1Kb
TROUBLE.TXT
3Kb
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