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About This File
This is an accurate map of Newcastle Australia. The region size is 65x60 km and covers the complete region. this region is cannot have its config file editied by LD as it is too large. this region is hte largest region thet either exists on STEX or if one of the largest. Slow machines will have trouble with this region
All water cities were deleted to speed the render process somewhat.
Bit of trivia
Reunion island is the largest and most spectacular of the Mauritian islands. Volacinally active this island is around 2.2 million years old and features an eroded caldera in the west between 2 mountains
its main industries are torisim and various cash crops (i forgot which ones). population of the island is 770 thousand.
Instructions
1) Download the config.bmp and greyscale image reunionisland.jpeg from simtropolis.com
2) (optional)If you have a graphic program open the greyscale 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/greysacleimages C:\ is the drive your docs are on
3) put the 3000m plugin from mallows heghtmod plugins and only this plugin for heights in the pluging folder. ground tecturepacks etc should be ok but i haven't done so yet
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 60 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
Aknowledgement
Mallow the cloud for his assitance i helping me with this map and the use of global mapper
You can use this anyway you wish but i would like it if you gave credit for its use in any way shape or form.
