Cities-Skylines-heightmap-generator VS colombo-skylines

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.

You may want to read the methodology - most of the imports broke and it ended up being a lot of manual work: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...

As for limits, when modded to the hilt, Skylines will give you:

298.6 sq km maximum area

1,048,576 maximum citizens

49,152 maximum individual buildings

65,636 maximum vehicles in motion

65,636 maximum parked vehicles

256 maximum transport lines (bus routes, train routes)

That will no doubt change the nature of the city you can set up - you could do a large city very sparsely, or a smaller area in greater detail.