Hi,

I'm a 3d environment artist working in the vfx industry for years now and I love building terrain from DEM data.

Every country as different format of heightmaps. Houdini files can only accept tif.

I have some data that require houdini to use .he or .hdf5 but how can we process them inside houdini?

I'm not familiar with the .he format, but if it is geospatial data GDAL [gdal.org] can probably convert it. Being a generic format, pulling the image arrays out of an hdf5 is a little more involved than some other formats, but GDAL should be able to do what you need.

Thanks I wil have a look

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/os-terrain-5-user-guide.pdf [www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk]