Banksy 0 Posted December 18, 2007 Ok guys this map building thing has become an obsession!!!! I have finally been able to get my map in game with textures and addons, I must have read the tutorial a million times and tried 1000's of different variations. 1. Where I am stuck is creating a terrain from a real world map like google earth etc, so hopefully someone out there can either explain where the best resource is and how to use it in Wilbur or terragen. I can get a satalite image from google earth but due to all of the terrain is is unusable in wilbur as it creates heights for all of the terrain like tree's etc. 2. Creating the satalite image I have used the game textures as the ground texture on a wilbur created terrain is there any other suggestions. What I am doing is makeing the texture a stamp and painting it onto the terrain in photoshop now it works in game and buldozer but the efferct is pretty poor. Please someone put me out of my pain!!! As I think I am starting to get an obsesive compulsive disorder with regards to map making......... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
opteryx 1562 Posted December 18, 2007 Getting a satellite map to match a real world topography can be tricky. What you will need to do is get a good source like THIS , then download the quadrant where your location is located in, get a GIS application that can import the format and crop your desired area based on your satmap coordinates ( or vice versa, ie. make a satmap based on the topographical area), then either export as XYZ raster format (if supported by app) and import to Visitor, or if need be, export as importable format to another GIS app which can convert to XYZ. PS: if your location is in the US there's higher res data found HERE or other places for example. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banksy 0 Posted December 19, 2007 Thanks for that! being the total nube that I am I am sure I will figure it out the hard way, why does everything have to be so complicated.........(Old brains find this hard) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Allie 0 Posted December 19, 2007 Nice site for the GIS stuff, tnx, didnt know that. I know its hard to create a bit of a realistic terrain out of a google earth pic. In my case it was not that big of a problem because i picked some empty desert and the result of changing the google earth pic to greyscale gave me a nice roling hill landscape(pure luck) I just had to touch it a bit up in wilbur. Next island will be made in a different way because my next project(also google earth pic) does not give me a nice landscape when changing to greyscale So i will try that sat terrain website and see if i can get some out of that, its a bit low res tho, 90m I will keep u guys posted. Allie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
opteryx 1562 Posted December 20, 2007 I have seen that the topo data used in Google Earth somewhere can be as high as 5m res... outside the US! If anyone has any idea about where they get their data and if it's free that would be awesome. Also, is it possible to extract this data from GE? I have tried to open KML and KMZ format in various GIS apps but it seems to only contain coordinates. Where does GE store it's topo and imagery data cache? -edit- Perhaps GE is using some form of fractal algorithm to fake higher res? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Allie 0 Posted January 1, 2008 GOOGLE MAPS IMAGES DOWNLOADER Not 100% happy, but its worth trying Later, Allie i know its not really for this topic, but starting another one just for this is not really handy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hypno toad 0 Posted January 11, 2008 http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=71069 I just finished this, maybe it can help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
