hello,
i have a object, which i have modeled exact the way i would need to have a part of a terrain. infact it is a profile view from a technical drawing of a hill extruded. what i need is that profile beeing part of the terrain and then on its edges just continue with random other terrain flow.
are there any tools, where i could transfer a 3d object to a heightmap from top view which i could import to unity again
or are there any other ways how i could get this object to be ‘projected’ on a part of terrain?
Sounds like what you want is to convert a mesh to a “heightmap”. I seem to remember seeing a tutorial on how to do this on the BlenderArtists forums a while back. If I find it I’ll post it here, otherwise you might want to search those forums yourself.
EDIT: Found this with Google: 3D Mesh-To-Heightmap Generator download | SourceForge.net
Wow… I have wanted one of these for awhile now. I’ll have to check this out.
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i386 is the listed platform for that download… bummer for me.
I’ll hit Google for the Blender solution
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the blender hint got me think a little and i managed to get it working in lightwave. if there is interrest, i could make a tutorial.
i then ran into the next problem, how to make such a image to a raw grayscale image. this is not so easy without photoshop and photoshop is a bit expensive as grayscale converter.
so i have done one for myself, just a quickshot for my own purpose, but might come handy to everyone just wanting to quick convert a bmp, jpeg, png or tga image to a unity terrain grayscale image.
you can get it from my homepage
I think you should include TIFF format amongst files you would convert. 
Just sayin’.