Cities-Skylines-heightmap-generator VS TouchTerrain_for_CAGEO

You can download a height map file from https://terrain.party/ or https://heightmap.skydark.pl/ and start a new game with the unlimited money cheat. Then it's just a matter of placing roads, utilities, public services and zoning the rest (that's the fun part).

I have used heightmap.skydark.pl in the past and have successfully downloaded stuff from it, but now it gives me that warning whenever I try to download anything.

I used SkyDark to get the roads overlay and the Overlay mod to bring the image in-game to trace the roads. I also use Google Earth when looking at specific locations, because OSM (the platform Skydark uses to gather road maps and height maps) sometimes will route paths/roads that don’t actually exist.

Doesn't work anymore . Use this instead https://heightmap.skydark.pl/

It already exists! It imports roads from OpenStreeMap. Combine it with a heightmap from heightmap.skydark.p to get the terrain. But the result is pretty janky and you need to go through and fix a lot. You can see a video demonstration by Justin Nobbs

The GitHub for reference: https://github.com/sysoppl/Cities-Skylines-heightmap-generator

However I am stuck at the map making side of things because of Water levels. Where I live is basically flat terrain except for where the number of rivers creeks and ponds (natural and man made) are however when importing a hight map into Cities Skylines via Skydark nothing really changes and if I match the sea level to the beaches hardly anything else gets filled in with water and if i try and manually add the water sources I always get loads of flooding. Ive tried fiddling with the settings to the Water Depth and Base Level around but nothing seems to change.

I've used heightmap.skydark.pl to demonstrate the building of real cities in CS1, and how that will change if CS2 has a smaller buildable area.

try heightmap.skydark.pl

Here is a link to my go to map editor. It also has some street importing functionality. Might need to read up on exactly how it works. It’s been a while.

I can't speak for the jigsaw part, but the topographic part is getting easier and easier. https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/ will spit out an STL of pretty much anywhere on Earth.

https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/ is a great source for free .stl terrain models. But these folks have the absolute best I've seen: https://maps.equatorstudios.com/ Gotta pay for more than a few models though.

I used https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu - you can import a KML file, hidden in Area Selection options. To generate KML, I went on google earth and clicked a whole bunch of times.

Always happy to share what I know, though it may seem strange to others. If anyone wants to attempt terrain carving, they should. Answered this question above briefly. I buy quality data from these folks. Free models that can be quite serviceable can be had from multiple places like this.

https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/ (up to 10m resolution) and https://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/ (90m resolution) can be even simpler if you're just getting into it, and can produce awesome models, but they use lower resolution data sets... so they won't show the fine details that really pop. Lidar based datasets can get down to 1m resolution, or even lower for some datasets. It depends on the scale and size of the object you want to print, really. But having models of many of the peaks and canyons I've hiked, and now my local neighborhood and more... it's pretty awesome.

The map scale is 1:2500000 with a 5x vertical exaggeration and the 3MF files have the base and waterline objects aligned for printing. USGS data, TouchTerrain, and DEM processing were used to generate the models. Chris, who is behind TouchTerrain, was very receptive to my feedback through the process and this would not be possible without his support.