Surely I’m doing something wrong when I create the landscape importing an heightmap.
Here is the link to the image Dropbox - needHelp.png - Simplify your life
Obviously It’s not what I would expect!
Can anybody tell me what I have to set/change/do/etc. to avoid this?
Thanks!
Hi,
The link is giving an error: not found. Can you attach the image here or post a new link to the image?
Tim
Try this!
Thanks!
I got it! The heightmaps (created with both Gimp and Blender) were 8-bit png. Just tried with a 16-bit png image that didn’t create that odd cubed output.
Thanks for the quick fix!
Can you post a screenshot of the heightmap as well. It looks like it’s hard steps through layers instead of blending.
It may be necessary for you to add a bit of blur to your image to get a smoother transition.
Here is the first image with the stepping and the imported landscape heightmap:
Here are the landscape results:
Using Photoshop or an image editor you can blur the edges using Guassian Blur (or anything else that gets the same results):
Here is the landscape result:
There may also be some things that could be adjusted in the way you make your heightmap depending on the particular third party software you’re using (ie. World Machine), but I’ve not used any of those really to give you any advice on where to look. If you are using a third party software for your landscape heightmaps perhaps a user here in the community would know off hand what you’d need to adjust to get a smoother result.
I hope this helps!
Tim
Ok! Glad you’ve got it. I didn’t refresh before posting my images. Maybe that will some others as well! 
Thank you!
Tim
Thank you for your clear explanation, now I got it more deeply. 
You’re true, I’d like to use Blender to create the heightmap and surely someone in the community more experienced could point the right way to proceed out to me in order to improve the results.
Bye!
