So, I used this heightmap (converted from a 16 bit greyscale TIFF with 16506 different shades of grey):
First I opened a .hgt in microdem, set pixel size to 16 meters, set to greyscale and saved the whole thing as 16 bit per pixel greyscale .tif:
I opened the .tif in Paint Shop Pro, cropped a 1081x1081 piece of it and saved that as 16 bit per pixel greyscale .tif again.
Then I took the TerreSculptor Pro ALPHA which is free so far (and incomplete and buggy etc.), messed around with settings and managed it to smoothen and erode and finetune the terrain
- and saved it as 16 bit per pixel greyscale .tif (as seen in first picture).
Then I opened maps4CIM to create a map file for Cities in Motion 2.
The textures doesn't look really good and I didn't smooth the terrain around the roads after I placed them, but that doesn't matter in this projection.
I added a few 2-lane roads with sidewalks and took some screenshots.
Just imagine these roads were 6-lane highways without sidewalks and that comes near to the real scale of Cities: Skylines.
Cities in Motion 2: 8km x 8km
Cities: Skylines: 18km x 18km (total)
I didn't place trees because of the scale, just check the narrow tiny lines - these are the roads, eh - 6-lane highways:
Zoomed in a bit:
and a bit more:
And always remember: it's a 6-lane highway.
What do you think?
| just as is | with a raster to imagine the 25 inner tiles |
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First I opened a .hgt in microdem, set pixel size to 16 meters, set to greyscale and saved the whole thing as 16 bit per pixel greyscale .tif:
I opened the .tif in Paint Shop Pro, cropped a 1081x1081 piece of it and saved that as 16 bit per pixel greyscale .tif again.
Then I took the TerreSculptor Pro ALPHA which is free so far (and incomplete and buggy etc.), messed around with settings and managed it to smoothen and erode and finetune the terrain
- and saved it as 16 bit per pixel greyscale .tif (as seen in first picture).
Then I opened maps4CIM to create a map file for Cities in Motion 2.
The textures doesn't look really good and I didn't smooth the terrain around the roads after I placed them, but that doesn't matter in this projection.
I added a few 2-lane roads with sidewalks and took some screenshots.
Just imagine these roads were 6-lane highways without sidewalks and that comes near to the real scale of Cities: Skylines.
Cities in Motion 2: 8km x 8km
Cities: Skylines: 18km x 18km (total)
I didn't place trees because of the scale, just check the narrow tiny lines - these are the roads, eh - 6-lane highways:
Zoomed in a bit:
and a bit more:
And always remember: it's a 6-lane highway.
What do you think?
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