Grey scale / height map / relief carving

[Jester]

Is it something like this your were after

I spent five mins just messing with it but there is a lot of noise on the picture.

[totts]

How on earth did you get that?!

Thats looking good! What program is that?

If you are feeling generous i might have to pinch a 3d model of that :)

By noise, is that because it is a low resolution picture?

[Jester]

Yeah the noise is the low res picture and by all means i can send a 3d model ill have a look see if i can get it any better

[totts]

Yes please, and thankyou, what program did you use?

[Jester]

Ok hows this


I found a hi res picture of it

[Jester]

I use aspire ill have to figure out how to send a 3d model of it

[EddyCurrent]

I use aspire ill have to figure out how to send a 3d model of it

Good effort, maybe this helps

http://support.vectric.com/aspire-qu...el-from-aspire

How did I guess it was going to be big money software

[totts]

Thats awsome! Shame it is big money software i cant afford yet :(

[Jester]

What software do you have I will try replicate it for you when I get out of hospital lol

[Ger21]

If you want to create a greyscale image like the shell in the first post, you first need to model the object in a 3D modeling program.
Then you need to render the depth map in a rendering program like blender.
http://blendtut.wordpress.com/2011/0...e-a-depth-map/

This method is far more complex than the quick and easy bitmap to 3D model in Aspire shown above, but the results will be far superior. And once you have a 3D model, you can render the depth map from different angles, for a variety of different effects.
Blender is free, btw, and there are many low cost 3D modeling programs out there.