High and Dry in Phoenix, Arizona 1.0

Yes first comment!
Good model although phx has surrounding lakes

Thanks Joshs,

Yes there are some lakes and rivers, but Phoenix's elevation and the slope of the flatter land is not conducive to adding the water by lowering the map. One would end up with rather large bodies of water where there isn't supposed to be and chasms and potholes.

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Phoenix is very high, above sea level that is. I've been there! I can even estimate a pin point on where Sky Harbor Intl. would go! My girlfriend even lives up somewhere in the northeast corner of that map. xD

Great work apple.

What drunkapple said is true, so I will give it a 5/5, it's an excellent work.

And if you really want water there, then, when you play lower the map.

W00t! I live in Phoenix (Peoria to be exact) and I love it here! P.S. The Salt River has tributaries in Phoenix, like New River, Agua Fria River, and Verde River. I don't see those. Also, I wish you could put Lake Pleasant in there...

Yep, Archean, your right. I kinda wish Camelback Mountain was more pronounces, but it's no big deal. The strange thing about Phoenix is that Sky Harbor Int'l Airport was there first and then downtown grew around it, I believe.

Thanks good people for your comments, of interest the map is larger than the rendered pic. it goes 3 tiles further north and 7 tiles further east.

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Before going on a journey there you should take some water supplies, eh? Because you would surely die from thirst.
Good work.

I live in the North Valley, just past New River. Love the map. Always fun to hit my house with a meteor.

Wow what a beautiful and realistic looking map! May inspire me to develop some more desert driven regions... 5/5 Great work as always!

not really beautiful, because phoenix is anything but beautiful, but very well done!

I like it, good scale. What is the mod you use for the land? It really looks like real desert.

Thanks Guys,
Yeah Algis it wouldn't hurt to carry a coolibah of water with you.
OOwww, put a flag up Marshuno all we can all hit your house with a meteor.
That Mikeaut sounds like and excellent idea.
I'll go with Mike on this one Chchchchank, the landforms are beautiful here.
It's another of my hacked up cycledogg's wonderful creations, Kusajika. I usually remove most of the textures and replace with solid colours then drag them up and down the elevations until I get the colours that I'm after. They're really not much good to play on but are decent enough for region pics, my bread and butter so to speak.
Think here how Ocean Quigley showed how the models were made, great from one angle but like a collection of crap from any other.


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Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the city of Phoenix most of the city blocks (away from the older part of downtown) are 1 mile or so in length and width... about how many tiles is that? I want to create something realistic.

Great map! But I have Windows 7 and SC4 Mapper won't work on my computer.I tried to use SC4 Terraformer
but was unable to render the map from the SC4M file.

the salt river is dried up, only thing that is left is puddles and wild Palo Verde Trees but theres still a basin were the river was, so u should put a valley/basin thing in the map. i live in buckeye (a small town just east of Goodyear and Phoenix) that is how i now this