How about a plastic model of terrain for school education, a small-scale version of a national park, a model that shows the overview of a real-world race track, or perhaps a tiny version of a mountain you climbed in the past. That’s why every time the 3D printing technology is applied in practical use, I’m excited! Today, I’ll show you how to print a 3D map, that can serve in a number of situations not only using our Original Prusa i3 MK3 printer.
If you don’t need that functionality, or don’t want to spend money, this is definitely worth trying out.From time to time, every 3D printer owner is asked the same question: “Why is the printer really good and useful? I cannot imagine what would I use it for.” I did not find a satisfactory answer to this simple question at first, because I don’t consider printing figures and statues as the right example. But I want to be sure to mention that other alternatives while not free are great as well and provide a lot more in the line of options and functionality. I really like how easy it is to get a terrain pulled in with this method. Your terrain should look something like this (of course it will vary based on the location you picked) That’s it, your heightmap should be imported! Set the Terrain Width & Height values to match what you had in Terrain.Party.īrowse to your heightmap file and click Open. Keep note of where you decide to export it, you’ll be importing into Unity it in a minute.Ĭreating the Unity Terrain and Importing the Heightmapīack in Unity, create a new Terrain object (GameObject->3D Object->Terrain) Take the (Merged) one and open it in GIMP (or photoshop if you have it and prefer).Ĭhoose the type “. Once you have a terrain area you like, click the Export button and save off your heightmaps.Ĭlicking the export button will download a zip file with multiple heightmaps. Take note of the size, you’ll want to use this as your reference when importing into Unity (you can re-scale, but it’s a good starting point to keep in mind). Use the zoom control to adjust how big of an area you want. On the right hand side, you’ll see a few controls for zooming and exporting. While you’re there, you can scroll around the world to find the location you like, or click the search button and enter the place you’re interested in. If you take a look at the site you’ll quickly see that it’s a minimalist website, but with some awesome functionality. That’s not to say that this solution is ‘better’, the competitors have some amazing functionality, but if you just want to get some real world maps into your game, do it in 5 minutes, and do it freely, terrain.party may be right for you. But none of them are as easy as the method I’m about to present.
I’ve used Worldbuilder, Gaia, and other methods before, and they’re all great. Earlier today I learned about a great way to import real world terrain to Unity for free.
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