Realworld Terrain inside max !

[Mirko]

Hello Samuel,

some weeks ago I have downloaded the DEM date of the area where I live. But the landscape has been very round and not very detaild.
Do you have an idea where I could find crisp, high detailed data for my area?

I am living in the Rhine valley very close to the border of france (2 km away). Between the cities called "Freiburg" and "Karlsruhe"

Best regards,
Mirko

[samuel_bubat]

Hello,

Did you use DEM or SRTM Data ?
The way I described above uses SRTM Data wich should be available
in a 76m resolution for the whole world.
If you did it that way and you import the converted SRTM -> DEM
into max using the habware plugin, You will get resolution parameters
for the landscape in the modifier dialog ! By default it has a step size of
20x20 wich will not look very detailed !!

By the way, the SRTM ressource ftp from above is no longer in service
and the SRTM´s are now available from here
ftp://e0dps01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/

Be patient.. this server is much slower than the previous one.
And I had to try several times until I could get a connection

cheers

[Mirko]

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately the folder "SRTM" seems not to be available anymore
It is written in italic letters and an error message apperas when I click on it.
I tried the folder called "SRTM30" but I think that's not the right one. I could not find my region.
I found my region (N46E00 in the "Eurasia" folder some weeks ago. But there you will find *.hgt files. When I opened such a file in den DEM Programm, the mountains have not been very "crisp". I thought there should be some more detailed stuff available, too.
Or is "*.hgt" the file extension of SRTM?

Gruß
Mirko

[samuel_bubat]

Well that´s probabely the highest resolution of this region
that´s available to the public. You can contact the DLR the have
38m Data.. but they want 400eur for their terrain. And it only covers
Germany partial.

And also take a look out of the window to make shure that there at least
some mountains to be displayed )

Keep in mind when open such a file in max you are hundreds of miles
above the ground. A mountain of 50 or 100m won´t be seen to spectacular !

cheers