How do you assemble slices of USGS Data into a full globe?

Daeglan

How do you assemble slices of USGS Data into a full globe?

I am trying out Fractal Terraines Demo and I can't figure out how to add more than one slice of USGS Data.

jslayton

It's much simpler to use a full-scale data set such as the ETOPO2 data set than it is to try to use smaller pieces and put them together. FT unfortunately will only read a single file at a time (maximum size on the order of 1GB).

ETOPO2 can be obtained from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/01mgg04.html if you'd like to try that. An example of using this data with FT can be found at http://www.welshpiper.com/ft-pro-and-real-world-data/ as well. http://forum.profantasy.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=133 was a discussion on the subject on this forum a couple of years ago.