Programs used to make .bmp files and such?

Programs used to make .bmp files and such?

• Mark Wills

  thanks, I will check those two out. ZMan, I searched to forums for "Image Programs," "Image Editors," and "Image Makers" they all brought up nothing
  

• JuKiM

  link - please search the forums before asking general questions. This has been asked several times before.
  
  

• ashk1860

  I know some people use Paint .NET: http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html
  
  

• WildRich

  I generate my own bitmap files for randomly created maps. (Sorry, I won't share that code with you.)

  If you're interested in doing this yourself, check out http://www.wotsit.org for the bitmap format, as well as pretty much any other format you might want to generate.

  
  

• R.Tutus

  Some of the painting programs have filters to convert to grayscale.
  

• gafferuk

  BodyPaint 3D is somewhat popular:

  http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/bodypaint3d/bodypaint3d_e.html

  
  

• Douglas H. Troy

  So, should I make the colors of my picture in RGB format, and then grayscale it
  

• sanwanas

  Some great tools I use here :)

  http://www.filterforge.com

  http://www.freeworld3d.org

  http://www.world-machine.com

  http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~jslayton/software.html

   

  
  

• Deeps_123

  Its no problem, and while writing in this thread, I was wondering, how do people get the images thay make into the black/white/gray mix
  

• JBate

  If you are painting a new picture as opposed to adjusting an existing image, then you could paint it in black and white directly if you want. If you are converting an existing image and your goal is to make a height map, the grayscale conversion may work ok or it may not give exactly the results you expect since the bright spots in the color of the image may not exactly match the points that should be high points in the height map.

  I'm also not really sure that coverting the RGB channels to grayscale would give any different result from leaving them as their normal colors because algorithms that use height maps expect a single scalar value as an input, and if you passed in the color directly it would be converted to a scalar anyway which I believe would be the equivalent of the scalar you would get by passing in the grayscale-converted color.

  
  

• zybernau

  OK, you are forgiven :-)

  Not sure what search terms would find the threads, but unfortunatly a lot of people do not search for stuff in advance so we always warn when there are repeats. My apologies.

  
  
  
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