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  • Make Mountains in Blender from Heightmaps

    Blender can make mountains from heightmaps, and this is a tutorial to show you how. Follow along and recreate two volcanoes from New Zealand's Central Plateau.
    Mountains with Heightmap in Background
  • Export Terrain Contours from Blender Using Freestyle

    Learn to create contours from terrain and export from blender in the SVG format for making maps, 3d printing, or cutting from physical materials.
    Contours and Terrain.
  • Colour by Altitude

    Learn to assign colour to terrain based on altitude with Blender.
    Altitude Colour
  • Finding Heightmaps on the Web

    This tutorial provides heightmaps, links to them, and talks about what to look for. It is written from the point of view of someone wanting to use them for modelling terrain in Blender, but it is relevant to modelling with other 3d packages
    Mt Taranaki
  • Heightmap Conversion with GDAL

    Learn how to use GDAL through the command line to extract 16bit heightmaps from Data Elevation Models.
    Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe Heightmap
  • Export Heightmaps from QGIS by Print Layout

    To get the highest quality heightmaps from QGIS we use the Print Layout function. This tutorial builds on the heightmap refinements taught in Export Heightmaps from QGIS by Screenshot.
    QGIS Print Layout Window
  • Export Heightmaps from QGIS by Screenshot

    This tutorial shows how to export heightmaps from QGIS 3.0.1 by using the screenshot method.
    Export Heightmaps from QGIS by Screenshot


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