Map of Borneo

[Sky Guy 163]

Oh boy, here goes nothing

Anyway, I am trying to make a map of Borneo, and I have followed tutorials, etc with no,luck. Also on most of the websites I have visited, they dont offer terrain data for anywhere other that America.

Could someone please help me figure this out, direct me somewhere or something? 

Thanks so much- oh and sorry for starting another thread, but I cant seem to get any info.

[Sky Guy 163]

Okay, I found a site here: http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/

Now I have a new problem- I followed the tutorials on the omnibus, but no matter what tone of gray I changed my greyscale to, the land is either too low, or too high.

Also, I cant use the raise/ lower terrain in simcity, because it doesn't go up just a little, but a whole ton.

Here is what I am talking about.

Its either this high, or this low

Does this have to do with something I did wrong following the tutorial to change it to grayscale, or something else. please help

Also, looking at tutorials, there is like 5 different sea-level colors from the 60s to the 80s- which is right?

Thanks

[timcravey 168]

Sealevel is 85. Land starts at 86.

[tungston 19]

These are the grayscale color levels, at least very close.

RGB= 0: 252 meters (827 feet) below sea level
RGB= 84: Sea level
RGB= 255: 513 meters (1683 feet) above sea level

Other elevation values:

RGB= 50: 102 meters (335 feet) below sea level
RGB=100: 48 meters (157 feet) above sea level
RGB= 150: 198 meters (650 feet) above sea level
RGB= 200: 348 meters (1142 feet) above sea level

with import.dat
    RGB=10 very deep water
    RGB=25 about sea level
    RGB=35 about one god mode level about sea level

[Sky Guy 163]

Thanks, what is an "import dat."?

Edit: Okay, I created a small test region. I set the lowest land value for 87, and the water for 76

But when I rendered it, I get this:

Absolutely no water, and the land it way too high! I have my files in the form png- does that matter?

And like I said before, when I make the values lower, everything is below water- there is no in between for some reason.

[tungston 19]

"import.dat" is a height mod that changes the way the game handles the grayscale colors.

I suggest you use a 8 bit, 256 color jpg format.  If the png format isn't the problem, then you may have a height mod in the plugins folder

[Sky Guy 163]

Thanks everyone, I finally got around it by changing the brightness/ contrast little by little and testing in between until I found the correct values- a little old fashioned, but it worked ha ha