[Savannah-register-public] [task #5277] Submission of Mesh-To-Heightmap Generator

[Mark Euston]

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                 Summary: Submission of Mesh-To-Heightmap Generator
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: hopeless
            Submitted on: Wed 02/22/06 at 11:28
         Should Start On: Wed 02/22/06 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sat 03/04/06 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
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Full Name:
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  Mesh-To-Heightmap Generator

System Group Name:
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  mesh2hmap

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  The project is called 'mesh2hmap'. The program converts a 3D mesh into a 2D
heightmap. Currently this program can parse the mesh from a VRML file or a
plain text file using a 'native' file format. The output is a Portable Grey
Map (PGM) image with the pixel values corresponding to the height of the
mesh. 

This is primarily intended to be a tool for generating heightmaps for
applications that use heightmaps for terrain. It allows a terrain designer to
use the advanced geoemtry features of 3D modellers to create their terrain,
rather than using the limited capabilities of a terrain editor or using an
image manipulation program directly. 

The tool allows for easy selection of the terrain 'grid resolution' as an
image size, or the more convenient method of specifying 'metres per pixel'
which saves the user from having to calculate the size of the image
manually.

The first realease is currently available for download at the following URLs

http://legends.sciesnet.net/mesh2hmap-0.1.tar.bz2
http://muc.muohio.edu/~theyranos/mesh2hmap-0.1.tar.bz2

My apologies in advance for the extremely messy code.

Other Software Required:
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  The software currently has no dependcies. Except for the standard C
library.

I have plans to extend the software to output a PNG image directly, so this
would depend on libpng (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html), which I
believe is under an "AS-IS" license, and zlib (www.zlib.net) which is under
the ZLIB license which is listed as GPL compatible on you site.








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