I have lately been trying to make my own world and am have a bit of a problem in the Height map department. All my height maps I make with TESAnnwyn have been form one extreme to another, but now what my other programs show it looks like. Here is a pic of what I mean [img]http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r604/jupiterrocks1/Untitled-1copy.jpg[/img]

What programs are you using to make the HM?

I'm going to guess and say your grey scale may be out (needs to be 100 - 75, where 100 is black). Have you used the scale option in TESannwyn?

Post your TESAnnwyn command line and tell us about your map. What application did you use to make it, how did you export/save the image file, what resolution is the image file, etc.

I used the command line from the tutorial for the creation kit and it is: "TESAnnwyn -i Skyrim - w HeightMap -d 4096x4096 -s 1 HeightMap.raw" I also used " -s .75 and
-s .5"

I used MICRODEM for the original height map and then to Photoshop. The height map was 16 bit greyscale, 4096x4096 in size. I saved as a .raw file

You must have misunderstood the example I think, that command line is most likely the reason it's screwed up. Try this instead:

tesannwyn -i Skyrim -w WorldSpaceName -p 1 -b 16 -d 4096x4096 -x -64 -y -64 -0 -h -8192 HeightMap.raw


Change WorldSpaceName to the desired name of your new worldspace.

What is the -0 for?

I've read that you want the height map grey % to be under 76% and the above person with it between 76 and 100. Which should it be because it can't be both. I have tried both and both results are not good.

I tried Maegfaer's command line with a better result but still nothing usable. I do appreciate your time however and I am one step closer to solving the problem with your help.

I think it might be the image I'm using but can't be sure. Here is a pic of a image I have tried so far: http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r604/jupiterrocks1/HeightMap.jpg

The other one is the same one just whiter.

-0 gives the worldspace formID a 00 index. It's not really important anymore in Skyrim, actually that one can be removed. It doesn't really matter tough.

What is the result report of TesAnnwyn when it's finished? That often gives a better clue what exactly is going wrong (min/max height values)

It reads:

Some Gradient overflows/underflows have been caught and blocked:
Total Overflows: 8146004
Total Underflows: -8250266

Highest Point is 31303 THU (250424 Game Units) = 3568. 542000 metres [Cell 63.55>]
Lowest point is -33787 THU (-270296 Game Units) = -3851.718000 metres j[Cell <-58.19>]

Total number cells imported: 16384

Finished! The imported ESP is called tesannwyn.esp and is 128 cells by 128 cells

That's way too extreme, it should definitely be scaled down vertically with the -s parameter. Try 0.1 for starters and see if the result is less messed up.