Heightmaps

[CultOfByron]

Hello there!

Can anyone help me? I'm just wondering if any of the established landscape editing/conversion tools for Black & White are capable of exporting heightmaps or making them visible?

What I am attempting to do is recreate the various islands from the first game in particular as new lands for either The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion or Skyrim.

Whilst I realise this can be done by hand, I'd prefer to use the heightmaps from the game if possible.

I know that lndromat can convert raw files into lnd files and wondered if it can work the other way?

Here's hoping!

Byron

 

[CultOfByron]

Well that was less of a headache than I was expecting!

Big thanks to Andux for his Land Tools - managed to extract the heightmap for Land 1 to a 512x512 8bpp raw file.  This then rendered fine Irfanview with all plugins installed.

Now to "persuade" the Oblivion Construction Set to render the landscape...

 

[Hammer]

Glad to hear you got it figured out.