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About This File
Glacier Peak, Washington, USA
a map by: blunder
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Installation:
This map is in .sc4m format and requires either Terraformer or Mapper to import.
1. Navigate to your Documents/SimCity 4/Regions folder and create a new folder with your desired region name
2. Copy+paste the config.bmp file into the folder you just created.
3. Open SC4TF, open the new region, import the .sc4m file, save and quit.
4. You must open and save each tile for it to display your terrain mod instead of the terraformer/mapper elevation color overlay.
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Description:
Glacier Peak is the remotest of Washington's dormant volcanoes. It might appear tall, but it is short for a cascadia volcano because it is built on top of an existing ridgeline. For such a small volcano it has a violent history, launching ash clouds that have traveled far east and lahars that have reached puget sound. The last eruption, a few hundred years ago, was witnessed and remembered by local natives. Over its centuries of sleep about a dozen glaciers have built up on it giving it the name Glacier Peak.
This map is 40km x 36km and made from satellite data. Whereas most of my maps i try to be accurate, this one i've manipulated a bit. Using the compress tool in terraformer i've taken all of the valleys below a certain elevation and squished them down to create building space that isn't naturally there. This should give the map an Alps feel. Also lowered the map 400m to give a better snowline with Gobias' and Lowkee's terrain mods.
Map made using satellite data, image editing software, and drunkapple's invaluable advice.
(I HIGHLY recommend using the high altitude + snow installation of Gobias' Alpine terrain mod found over at sc4d, or Lowkee's most excellent terrain mod, also at sc4d.)
For questions, comments, and requests please see my Map Thread over at simpeg.com
Happy Gaming!
