Lionhardt wrote:
(If you wonder, why I go through all these formats: I am running a Linux machine, where I do my editing with gimp and use Photoshop on another machine for converting to and from RAW, because gimp does not support 16 bit graphics, which is required for the RAW files for the map editor. But I don't use the latter machine for editing, because it's a laptop with a very small screen...)
The answer lies in your quote. If you put a file into gimp, which as you say does not support 16bit, it comes out as a 8bit map. The folllowing import in photoshop and the converting to a 16 bit raw does not make up for the fact that your source map is 8 bit. Its like a 460p screenshot of a 1080p video, its still 460p. 8 bit maps are just unusable for hightmaps!
So you have to find a workflow without gimp.Statistics: Posted by Deep_ — 28 Aug 2013, 23:56
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