How can I make a terrain from a black and white picture into blender?
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1 Make a grid object (or a plane and subdivide it a few times)
2 Apply a new material
3 Add your Image to a texture channel of the material
4 Go in edit mode
5 Hit F9 (Editing Tab)
6 Press the “Noise” button in the Mesh Tools a few times
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Take a plane, subdivide it 6 or 7 times. Load the black and white image as the texture, go to the top view of your plane and in the edit buttons push “noise”. This will adjust the height of the vertices every time you press it in relation to the black and white image (dark only rising slightly, white rising more.) You may have to play with the x and y sizes in the materials panel to get the effect to cover the whole plane.
Is it possible to do this in reverse? Generate a black and white map based on the elevations of the plane in blender?