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One of my favorite mod in Skylines that you can import _real world_ terrain maps into the game. Building your own city but better is a good fun (and challenge!)

One of my favorite mod in Skylines that you can import _real world_ terrain maps into the game. Building your own city but better is a good fun (and challenge!) https://terrain.party/ https://terrain.party/ Hope this will work in the sequel too

yknx4 4y ago
Thank you. You've just killed my weekly productivity at work hahaha
therein 4y ago
Very nice, I didn't know this existed. Will give it a try.
Imnimo 4y ago
I spent so many hours hunting for cool bits of real world terrain and then massaging them into playable scenarios for myself (it's a lot of work to smooth out artifacts in the data and then add functioning water, vegetation, initial road connections, etc.). I don't know what the licensing concerns for the elevation data and maps would be, but I hope they consider integrating this functionality directly into the game in the future.
- dwringer 4y ago
  You can get heightmaps from NASA's SRTM data without any licensing concerns at all, and they can be used in Cities Skylines (without mods) without any problem (provided you put the heightmap into the right file format). This was pretty much always possible, it's just been a lot of steps and sort of a hassle without projects like that facilitating the process for people. It would be incredible to have a globe viewer/DEM download tool built in to the game, but the bandwith required for hosting the project might turn into an issue (I'm reminded of the situation with high res imagery for Command: Modern Operations/TacView, where users are strongly encouraged to download only what they need due to server constraints).
- sleepybrett 4y ago
  If you could find heightmaps dating back to seattle's founding that would be pretty annoying map, but only if you couldn't just flatten out parts of it at will with no cost. it's still pretty challenging geographically to this day, but it went through many re-grade projects as it grew.
user764743 4y ago
this doesn't work anymore and is no longer maintained. Use this instead: https://heightmap.skydark.pl/# https://heightmap.skydark.pl/#
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maxerickson 4y ago
There was a similar thing for OpenStreetMap.

yknx4 4y ago

Thank you. You've just killed my weekly productivity at work hahaha

therein 4y ago

Very nice, I didn't know this existed. Will give it a try.

Imnimo 4y ago

I spent so many hours hunting for cool bits of real world terrain and then massaging them into playable scenarios for myself (it's a lot of work to smooth out artifacts in the data and then add functioning water, vegetation, initial road connections, etc.). I don't know what the licensing concerns for the elevation data and maps would be, but I hope they consider integrating this functionality directly into the game in the future.

dwringer 4y ago
You can get heightmaps from NASA's SRTM data without any licensing concerns at all, and they can be used in Cities Skylines (without mods) without any problem (provided you put the heightmap into the right file format). This was pretty much always possible, it's just been a lot of steps and sort of a hassle without projects like that facilitating the process for people. It would be incredible to have a globe viewer/DEM download tool built in to the game, but the bandwith required for hosting the project might turn into an issue (I'm reminded of the situation with high res imagery for Command: Modern Operations/TacView, where users are strongly encouraged to download only what they need due to server constraints).
sleepybrett 4y ago
If you could find heightmaps dating back to seattle's founding that would be pretty annoying map, but only if you couldn't just flatten out parts of it at will with no cost. it's still pretty challenging geographically to this day, but it went through many re-grade projects as it grew.

user764743 4y ago

this doesn't work anymore and is no longer maintained. Use this instead: https://heightmap.skydark.pl/# https://heightmap.skydark.pl/#

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maxerickson 4y ago

There was a similar thing for OpenStreetMap.