3D Photo Carving

Hi @thehootens,

As Neil mentioned, you basically only have two ways to do this:

  • find a 3D model of a horse that you like, and then use some software to generate a grayscale heightmap from that. Our own @fenrus happens to have created a nitfy online tool where you load an .STL file (one of the 3D file formats), and it generates the PNG heightmap for you. He has a whole thread with all the details here.

  • or, find/purchase a grayscale heightmap of a horse, that someone else made. If you search for “horse heightmap”, you can find a few, they all look similar to this:

(you’ll need to check the copyrights on the image)

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