I would look into worldbuilder or vue. They both have powerful tools for terrain heightmap generation. There used to be a plugin called GEM64 that you could feed DEM's if I remember correctly which might get you going in Softimage. Not sure if that plugin still works though.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doeke Wartena Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: creating cliffs hi, i'm working on a hl2 map where i need to make some cliffs. I really dislike how this works in hl2. So i thought maybe make it in xsi and program a converter that tries to get a close result to the xsi version. Anyway, how would you make a cliff in xsi? One way could be a grid with a displacement driffen by a weightmap. But i'm sure there are tons of other ways. please let me know.
