I am trying to create a 3D version of my 2D raster using QGIS GRASS NVIZ. I have been following these steps: http://linfiniti.com/2010/12/3d-visualisation-and-dem-creation-in-qgis-with-the-grass-plugin/
I have no problems creating the 3D model, but my colors always get lost. This is frustrating because the second option on the NVIZ module asks for a raster to use for color. I've tried multiple times to get NVIZ to create the 3D model with the color of the raster indicated and I always get the Pseudocolor or grayscale colormap. The link provided in the above directions (http://linfiniti.com/2010/12/a-workflow-for-creating-beautiful-relief-shaded-dems-using-gdal/) claims to explain how to map colors, but does so only through command line procedures. I am not yet familiar enough with GRASS command line to take that route and meet my deadline.
This GISSE question did not really explain how to do it through the NVIZ module:
How to change the raster color range in GRASS NVIZ?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
-mike
Best Answer
This is not QGIS, but GRASS GIS so you need to know GRASS GIS to use NVIZ.
With GRASS GIS or QGIS and the GRASS plugin
Each raster can have a color table and r.colors creates and/or modify this color table, here for a DEM with color table "elevation":
In other words, you have to replace the raster color table with r.colors if you want to change the default -> "rainbow" here ):
With QGIS and the Processing/GRASS NVIZ
Here only the current layer is available due to the algorithm used
So you can only modify the color ("New constant")