Does Blender do height maps?

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Hello

I would like to create a floor height map with blender for irrlicht engine,  i can just create a flat plane and put texture on it , is this a good idea?

are there better softwares outthere (free) for it?
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Subdivide the plane enough, and then hit noise button (in edit mode) as many times as needed ,and watch the vertices rising up.

Hope it’s what you what you needed.

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Theres a plugin on my page that does heightmaps with better numeric input.