Three.js global heightmap not showing expected result

Question

Sorry if this is a repeat question but I haven't found the answer and I've been trying for hours. So I am new to three.js and I wanted to create a model of earth using a global 4k height map that I found online. I found this open source script that can do this.

    function createGeometryFromMap() {
    var depth = 512;
    var width = 512;

    var spacingX = 3;
    var spacingZ = 3;
    var heightOffset = 2;

    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    canvas.width = 512;
    canvas.height = 512;
    var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

    var img = new Image();
    img.src = "assets/earth.jpg";
    img.onload = function () {
        // draw on canvas
        ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
        var pixel = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, width, depth);

        var geom = new THREE.Geometry;
        var output = [];
        for (var x = 0; x < depth; x++) {
            for (var z = 0; z < width; z++) {
                // get pixel
                // since we're grayscale, we only need one element

                var yValue = pixel.data[z * 4 + (depth * x * 4)] / heightOffset;
                var vertex = new THREE.Vector3(x * spacingX, yValue, z * spacingZ);
                geom.vertices.push(vertex);
            }
        }

        // we create a rectangle between four vertices, and we do
        // that as two triangles.
        for (var z = 0; z < depth - 1; z++) {
            for (var x = 0; x < width - 1; x++) {
                // we need to point to the position in the array
                // a - - b
                // |  x  |
                // c - - d
                var a = x + z * width;
                var b = (x + 1) + (z * width);
                var c = x + ((z + 1) * width);
                var d = (x + 1) + ((z + 1) * width);

                var face1 = new THREE.Face3(a, b, d);
                var face2 = new THREE.Face3(d, c, a);

                face1.color = new THREE.Color(scale(getHighPoint(geom, face1)).hex());
                face2.color = new THREE.Color(scale(getHighPoint(geom, face2)).hex())

                geom.faces.push(face1);
                geom.faces.push(face2);
            }
        }

        geom.computeVertexNormals(true);
        geom.computeFaceNormals();
        geom.computeBoundingBox();

        var zMax = geom.boundingBox.max.z;
        var xMax = geom.boundingBox.max.x;

        var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geom, new THREE.MeshLambertMaterial({
            vertexColors: THREE.FaceColors,
            color: 0x666666,
            shading: THREE.NoShading
        }));
        mesh.translateX(-xMax / 2);
        mesh.translateZ(-zMax / 2);
        scene.add(mesh);
        mesh.name = 'valley';
    };

}

function getHighPoint(geometry, face) {

    var v1 = geometry.vertices[face.a].y;
    var v2 = geometry.vertices[face.b].y;
    var v3 = geometry.vertices[face.c].y;

    return Math.max(v1, v2, v3);
}

When I tried the demo heightmaps of Grand Canyon and Hawaii that came with the download, they seemed to be fine. However when I tried to implement my global heightmap into this the result was not displaying what I needed

This is the terrain of grandcanyon:

This is the global heightmap that I am using:

And this is the result I am getting for 3d terrain of the world:

It's obvious that something is wrong because that is not the world. Sorry guys if there were too many images I could not think of describing this problem in any other way.

Answer 1

When you tell your 2D canvas context to .drawImage() , it's going to draw a 4000px image over a 512px canvas. That's how it's defined in the MDN documents if you only use 3 img, dx, dy arguments.

You could either:

• Draw the Earth image smaller to fit inside your 512x512 canvas by using the 4th and 5th arguments of dWidth, dHeight .
• Make your canvas larger to match the width & height dimensions of your Earth image.