Continental U.S. 2.0.0

this map looks pretty cool good work

im sorry i does need some work. the rockies could be more seemless [ transition wise between cities] and they could look like a continuous mountain range instead of separate mountains grouped together. you've got the shape down pact though


2.5/5

there is something wrong with the high of the mountains, and smething wrong with some west edges.

The transition between cities in each region isn't the fault of the file, sim city is doing that. it appears that sim city is smoothing out the top and left of every city. wish there was a way to stop that. the original file (included as a screenshot) doesn't have the problems.

Mars is encoding now to see if the shading (level VS water) is correct but be warned, it IS Mars and Mars DOES have huge high peaks.

The way I'm doing it is take the original file, strip out the color information and make it a true greyscale image, ensure the low grey areas are not lower than 100 in 0-255 scale and the water is less than 100 via brightness and contrast settings, check the size, divide by 64, round up to the nearest multiple of 4, multiply by 64 again, set the canvas size to the new size, add deep water to it where the original image stopped. otherwise, it's the same exact image as USGS supplies, maybe a lower contrast between low altitudes and high altitudes but if I left it alone the rockies would be unplayable even with smoothing.

A 3 pixel wide Gaussian blur fixed the problems but they all appear to be more like hills instead of mountains now. Still unsuitable for building in the middle of the rockies though without substantial flattening unless you simply want to use it for a roadway connection zone. The update will be uploaded as soon as Mars finishes rendering again after the blur

I found it amusing that you didn't bother to remove the text on the image

I was considering it but it made an amusing pattern after importing it so it stayed