How to generate a planet surface from a height data file?

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can you share the script
if anyone else needs it we can refer back to this thread

thanks
happy bl

22

I’m not at my PC right now but the script is on the image I posted earlier, along with how the actual data file looks like.

23

would be a lot easier if you upload script for other peoples
and no errors when trying to reproduce it !

thanks
happy bl

24

Ok, I attached the data file and the script, you need to open a new Blender file, save it somewhere first, then unzip into the same location as the file and run data.py (I open and run it in Text Editor panel). It won’t bring you much joy for the reasons I mentioned above but as an option/example of how to display elevation data it’ll do.

Blender doesn’t seem to remove underlying mesh data from memory after you manually delete the object from the scene, so you might also want to run flush.py a few times to clean up memory.

Attachments

HeightToSphere.zip (331 KB)