An interesting Heightmap tool

[Articsledder]

I stumbled onto this tutorial on how to create heightmaps using google earth. It's interesting, I'm working on making one right now. A little confusing however. Heres the tutorial.


http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=2210.0

Edit: Man this is confusing. I've gotten the data open, the issue is you cant zoom in and get a very detailed map.

[Space101]

Seems hard and my lazy fatass is screaming in agony(No, I'm not fat).

[Tocksman]

Definitely going to try this out!

(No, I'm not fat).

It doesn't help that your signature says "You're gonna carry that weight."

[Tocksman]

Using the instructions arcticsletter posted, I was able to grab a heightmap of somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains. Without doing any sort of editing whatsoever, I converted the heightmap to AoS and started playing. The results were a very choppy terrain that's hardly playable in Ace of Spades. [Rocky1.PNG, Rocky2.PNG]

After this, I decided to open up the heightmap in Photoshop and use the blur effect on the mountains. This made the blurred terrain more ideal for Ace of Spades! [smooth01.PNG, smooth02.JPG]

[Tocksman]

And for the last picture. The PNG was too large and you can only add 3 attachments to a post. So I converted it to a JPEG and attached it to a second post!