Edit: ok it does do greyscale you just have to check the option box so i dont see why it wouldnt work

hello not sure if anyone else knows about tho im sure they might. but serarching the web i came across a pretty nice terrain editor and generator. to my knowledge its free for any use tho u may want to contact the creator to be sure if your working on a commercial project. I did not make this or have no knowledge of this program other then its existance so please dont ask me for help cause i wouldnt have no clue on what to do just hoping it may come usefull to someone. it has some good points from what im seeing but some negatives as well. it exports to bmp or hmp but the hmp wont load into med. i guess its another format. i dont know much about terrain. anyways heres the link
height map editor sorry if this has been posted before but its the first time i came across it

EDIT:: btw it uses color height maps and not grey scale not sure how well 3dgs is with color maps or if the colors are used correctly in the program or whatever so this may cause i problem havent messed with it much as i just found it. but on an upside if this does work its kind of cool cause it allows you to create prefabs and load them in over existing terrains like rivers and mountains and what not. i really hope this works with 3dgs ill post more if i find out

wait for my next version of terrEd, and you'll see what a powerful terrain generator is

good link, thanks for sharing it.
joey.

Cool cant wait will deffinately be lookin forward to it and no problem just doing what i can to help those who have helped me

EDIT:sorry was just looking around for terraed is there one out now the only reason i ask is you said your next version. where can i find a copy of the last

The License says it is a free program:
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Height Map Editor is (C) Radu Privantu(chaos_rift@yahoo.com).

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Read gpl.htm for more details on the GPL license.
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Might be worth further checking though.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=69 - think this is what he may be refering to and this looks amazing!

has been some time since i posted the last time..

yes, the next version is on it's way. i've translated all code into managed one (bad idea), and then realized that it's far from flexible to do so. currently i'm recoding the whole program (into standard c++). it will, afaik, consist of three parts:

terred compiler
|
script language
|
frontend

so that theoretically everyone can write a frontend or a viewer, and the heightmap files are just about some kb in size. it's also possible to have a dll parsing heightmap files ingame.

the script language is currently in development.

joey.