Terrain Party - auto terrain height selector for Cities Skylines

[lightrail]

Head over to the Cities Skylines subreddit on Reddit.

A genius there has made a simple on-line tool for selecting any place in the world and downloading height map grayscales a lready formatted for use in Cities Skylines (1081 x 1081). The tools consists of a grid showing the 5 x 5 buildable tiles as well as the 2km fringe "eye candy" area. You simply use the search function to find the city or area in the world you want, drag the box so it covers the area you want to map, then click the download button.

More information on the Cities Skylines subreddit page. /r/citiesskylines

There should be a permenant link here to that tool for modders.

 

[SimonJM]

See my latest post in the "Heightmaps" thread. I don't think this "genius" has much knowledge or experience.

Granted the script may evolve into something that produces reasonable results, but it won't match more sophisticated geo-processing available in specialised GIS platforms. That is unless he really is a genius and codes some fairly advanced algorithms himself into the web app, however I'm not confident of this based on early feedback:

Awesome work. But can you make the box scale relative to latitude so northern areas aren't distorted? This is most notable on Svalbard were the Svalbard runway is 2,5km in real live but covers most of the 18x18 area.

I haven't seen the script but I suspect it has a fairly basic and unscientific methodology, and that's ignoring the critical projection issues. I'm also not saying the script can't be "good enough" for the purposes of the CSL map editor, just that it's probably of lower quality than it could or should be. This is coming from someone who does this sort of thing for a living so I'm a stickler for accuracy and precision. Still, that scale problem really is a fundamental error of even basic high school geography!

I'll be happy to provide examples for comparison.

 

[KnightHawkTFC]

For those of us that aren't looking for perfection and more a rough layout of an area I'd bet this comes close enough.

 

[Emperor Ike]

Well the thing with terrain party is that it will give you "application error" a lot. I've only been able to get one map out of it which turned to out to be rather good. After that it simply gives the application error when exporting. No matter what size the map is.

 

[Gildzior]

Hi there !
I was sooo excited when i first saw terrain.party, but when I tried to make an export of Warsaw map there's no hight map shade
Why there is almost no Europe hight maps at all ? Only part of Spain & GB is avaliable....

Will it be updated somehow?

Regards
MG

 

[Shiggs]

Well the thing with terrain party is that it will give you "application error" a lot. I've only been able to get one map out of it which turned to out to be rather good. After that it simply gives the application error when exporting. No matter what size the map is.

I've did dozens of maps and pretty much all of them turned out fine. I haven't had an error, the worst I've gotten is flat maps being almost featureless, and one map with 3 really big mountains did not turn out well.

Hi there !
I was sooo excited when i first saw terrain.party, but when I tried to make an export of Warsaw map there's no hight map shade
Why there is almost no Europe hight maps at all ? Only part of Spain & GB is avaliable....

Will it be updated somehow?

Regards
MG

Not sure what you are talking about, you can scan Warsaw and it will give you the ASTER and SRT30 Plus terrain maps, and they work just fine. You are not going to get the more detailed USGS geological survey's, you can only get those for areas in the USA.

I tried to attach the zip to this post, but apparently the file is too large. You can do it yourself or I'm sure someone else will or already has.

 

[Gildzior]

Thanks,

I've managed to download files and I've made some editing in them
1st map is already in Steam Workshop

 

[reidh]

ANYBODY WHO KNOWS. How does one turn off the red topo lines in the USGS Topographic imagery as well as all other overlaying info or labels. in terrain.party ?

 

[The Planner]

terrain.party today does'nt works. may be offlline. anybody knows if it still working?

[UPDATE]
may be still in maintenance. now online