This is the download page of the blender Digital Elevation Model importer.
Blender is one of the most complete Open Source 3D modeling programs. It's a nearly complete suite for animations and photo realistic image generation.
Goal of the script is the generation of a Blender grid mesh whose vertexes reflect the elevation data of
earth surface, contained within a SRMT or GTOPO format file.
Currently the script could be used to generate a “flat mesh” representing a part of “real” landscape.
Generated mesh is a grid of vertexes equally distanced along X and Y axis: the Z coordinate of vertexes reflect to the landscape elevation corresponding to the specific latitude and longitude of the point.
License
Script and associated documentation, are distributed according to the Gnu GPL 2 license (a copy is included within the distribution zipfile), and distribution is made through a zip/tgz file.
Format
Every script release is identified by three numbers x.y.z (Major/Minor/Bugfix).
Distributions contain the following files:
- DEM_import_x.y.z.blend
The blender file including the importer (as a text object) - DEM_import_x.y.z.py
The python script (to be eventually placed inside the script directory) - DEM_import_ita_x.y.z.pdf
this documentation (localized in italian) - DEM_import_eng_x.y.z.pdf
this documentation (in english) - GPL_License.txt
license copy
A fresh complete copy of the latest script version could be downloaded below.
Requirements
The script has been developed with Blender 2.36 and Python 2.3.4: the script requires a full fledged python installation to work.
Credits
Part of the code inspired by the GPLIGC package, by Hannes Krüger.
Documentation generated by OpenOffice.org, Inkscape, The Gimp and (of course) Blender.
Many thanks to the italian blender forum www.kino3d.com, for the valuable feedbacks.
For any information or feedback related to this script and its documentation,
please write to the following address:
uaraus-dem (at) yahoo (dot) it
Please report to the same address bad or broken links on this page.
Download
Current version
0.0.4 in .zip format
0.0.4 in .tgz format
Previous version
0.0.3 - bugged, not available for download0.0.2 (no doc) in .zip format
0.0.2 (no doc) in .tgz format
Links
Blender
Python
GPLIGC
OpenOffice.org
Inkscape
kino3d
blender.it
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