Feature request #4012
Feature: add hillshading as an option for raster symbology
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Low | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Symbology | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | fixed/implemented |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 13999 |
Description
Testing something in Mapwindow GIS I noticed that it can do on-the-fly hillshading of single band rasters; in fact, this is even enabled by default when you add a new raster layer!
I don't think it makes sense to enable it by default, but I'm sure QGIS users would also appreciate hillshading as a symbology option (rather than having to create a second raster file for the hillshading). Mapwindow has demonstrated that this is possible, and can be plenty fast enough ;)
History
#1
Updated by Pirmin Kalberer almost 13 years ago
If you create a hillshade layer using DEM from the Raster plugin, you have to set the following parameters: Z factor, Scale, Azimuth of Light, Altitude of Light. Do you think the defaults are good enough for "online" hillshading?
#2
Updated by Alister Hood almost 13 years ago
It looks good to me, although I imagine people would often like some vertical exaggeration, and in the northern hemisphere they probably want a different azimuth.
I think if on-the-fly hillshading was implemented someone would eventually make the parameters configurable anyway :)
#3
Updated by Pirmin Kalberer over 11 years ago
- Target version changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have
#4
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed/implemented
- Description updated (diff)
- Pull Request or Patch supplied set to No
- Status changed from Open to Closed