System Requirements for Terrain Sulptor

Java

Terrain Sculptor requires Java 6 or higher by Oracle, which is available for most major platforms. Java 6 is not supported on older Mac hardware based on PPC processors. Macs with Intel 32 bit processors need Mac OS X 10.6. If you have troubles starting on Mac OS X, see here.

RAM

Terrain Sculptor's memory requirements depend on the size of the input elevation model. 2 GB of RAM or more are recommended.

To estimate the amount of memory required in MB multiply the rows times columns and divide by 15,000. Hence, a DEM with 5000 columns and 5000 rows will require 1.65 GB of RAM.

On Windows, Terrain Sculptor cannot currently use more than 1.2 GB RAM.

On Macintosh this limitation does not exist, but larger DEMs are likely to slow down your computer.

Monitor

A screen larger than 1024 x 768 pixels is required to run Terrain Sculptor.