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About This File
This is an accurate map of Mount Kaputar Australia. The region size is 38x38 km and also covers lake macquarie in the south. Sorry i cant show the whole render the shown area is the mountain itself. this would make a good region for a number of eco villages dotted round the country side in the numerous valleys flanking the sides of the mountaoins
Trivia
This area is on the edge of the Namoi river valley about 40 km east of my hometown. It is extremely rugged terrain and is a national park with some agriculture, mining and forrest in the foot hills. as far as i know this mountain is the highest point west of the great dividing range at 1510 m above sea level.
limitations
this doesn't render properly because of the limit in resolution in the satelite images for height maps and because of the steepness of the terrain in this area the area above 1500 m is small and barely shows in sattelite images as it is only the aproximately the size of a football field.
Instructions
1) Download the config.bmp and greyscale image Newcastle.jpeg from simtropolis.com
2) If you have a graphic program open the greysacel region in your progof choice remove jpeg artifact and convert to BMP, Save in a convient location i pick the SimCity root directory in c:\documentsandsettingsusername\mydocuments/SimCity C:\ is the drive your docs are on
3) Move mallows 1500 m plugin to your plugin folder remove all other pluggins relating to height modification. This is optional but if you want an acurate height you will need to do this the razor plugin might also be handy here. Other plugins can beinstalled at your discretion as long as they dont affect the height the mapp will look different if you do this
4) Start SimCity 4 use ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+R you will get a dialog box.
5) Browse for your files in c:\....documentsand settingsusername\mydocuments/SimCity where c:\ is the drive your docs are stored on click OK
6) The game will then render the image this will take some time depending on your system as a guide it will take 20 mins on a AMD 2700 with radeon9600 1 gig RAM if your machine is slower it will take proportionally longer to render.
7) when its finished Rendering ENJOY
Copyright
You can use this anyway you wish but i would like it if you gave credit to me if you use it or distribute it. for copyright i retain the rights as creator of this map
