[REQUEST] Topographical map overlay.

[Hannodb]

Please can we get something like in Cities XL: A topographical map that mark areas of the same height with lines? This is really necesary for everything from the terrain editor, to placing roads, rails, dams, offramps, and just about everything else?

Thanks

 

[Metropolitan]

Please can we get something like in Cities XL: A topographical map that mark areas of the same height with lines? This is really necesary for everything from the terrain editor, to placing roads, rails, dams, offramps, and just about everything else?

Thanks

We have already that in the map editor, so it should only be about an extra button to add in the city building mode. Maybe a modder could do that?

 

[Hannodb]

We have already that in the map editor, so it should only be about an extra button to add in the city building mode. Maybe a modder could do that?

Really? Hmm. I'll have to look for it again.

 

[Hannodb]

Found it.

Yes, that could work, but we need to be able to keep it on while working - both in the terrain editor and the game itself.

 

[Potoroo]

Please can we get something like in Cities XL: A topographical map that mark areas of the same height with lines? This is really necesary for everything from the terrain editor, to placing roads, rails, dams, offramps, and just about everything else?

Thanks

+1,000!

But I also want either an in-game terrain bulldozer (a la SC4) or a much, much smarter game that can handle plopping large assets on what looks to be for all intents and purposes flat land. It is beyond tiresome having my plans for a section of my city completely derailed because I can't plop a highway intersection or whatever where I want it. I mean, for God's sake, if my city engineers can build a highway intersection they can surely level the land appropriately!

 

[gr2y]

..in-game terrain bulldozer

it will help in situations like this

 

[Metropolitan]

Found it.

Yes, that could work, but we need to be able to keep it on while working - both in the terrain editor and the game itself.

I agree. I like building my roads smooth and that kind of stuff is really useful for that.

A really great great thing though is the ability to press CTRL+Z in the map editor after having edited heights. That's really great. You can this way flatten a whole area, draw your road, then press CTRL+Z to restore the initial height file... and that's how you can get flat roads in a mountain area.

This is the kind of results you get:

Oh and by the way just in case you wonder, this highway doesn't float in the air, there are pillars everywhere holding it to the ground.