Terrain Generator!! Oh where aew you.

[cloudy_n_texas 0]

Is there still a dowloadable copy of the Terrain generator; where we can create very large terrains with large cities??  Pls help,  Thanks

[Xyloxadoria 1,098]

The original EA terrain generator no longer exisits it has been taken down and removed. There is no longer any way to get it.

However there is a alternitve, which you can find out about here and download here

[Lycostheuser 1]

That's odd, because its "there" but nothing shows in the browser!? Does anyone know why it's no longer supported?

[BIWDC 2,296]

The terrain Generarator on the sim city site here: http://simcity.ea.com/coolstuff/terrain/terrain_01.php 

is there still & works.I am running it now,you need to be product registered on the site to use it.

It's just city terrain that it generates not an entire region though.

If your having problems you might need to update your Java software as it uses that.

Edit:it runs but when trying to get your city file you get an internal server error.Well i guest

it doesn't work after all,figures

[Lycostheuser 1]

Thanks BIWDC, I just wanted to try it out, but yes it's down. I have the most updated Java and all that, oh well.

[randolpj 0]

So, I just went through this thread and I've figured out I've been wasting my time for the past two days trying to register my copy of SC4 Deluxe, so that I can use their terrain generator, is this true?

Story: A couple of weeks or so ago I registered here to download some of the great tools you guys have made (I've been playing SC4 off and on for 6+ years and I had no idea all of this existed), and I started looking at some of the maps and found a couple I wanted to try.

I found out they were in a format that can only be read as far as I know with SC4 Terraformer and SC4Mapper. After trying a couple of hours to install and use either of these I found out neither program reliably works on Windows 7. So I found out about the Terrain Generator at the "official" web site and it said I have to register my product to use any of the tools. I couldn't register my software because the system kept saying the serial number has already been used, which I found to be a common problem. I contacted customer service via their live chat. The first time they told me the serial number is unused and to try again. No luck. Second time they told me I had to register at EA.com, before I could register my serial number. The thing was that I had already registered at EA.com just to use their online customer service chat! Anyway, if you try to register SimCity at EA.com, you have to go to another legacy website to try it because SC4 is not on their game list. When you go to the legacy website and try to register you get a "server error" which tells me the thing is probably permanently offline.

So, all in all, I have learned that SimCity and all of it's related web content is basically orphaned, and this means as far as the custom maps are concerned, "I can't get there from here". Is this true, or is there something else I can try?

[BIWDC 2,296]

Yeah once the registration gets screwed up you won't be able to get anything

from Maxis/EA.

The only good thing is the links in my signature you can get the maxis

files from there,however not that terrain generator though.

If you can't run the Sc4 terraformer or SC4 Mapper on windows 7 that's bad as i

don't think there will be any updates on those tools for support at least at this

time.

Try the landscape designer to create regions here: 

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=12679

I don't know if this will work on windows 7.I only have a beta version of windows 7

& still have not tested much on it.

[randolpj 0]

Thanks, BIWDC for that info, I'm going to try the stuff in your sig. I did finally figure out (again) how to use the greyscale elevation images and import them. I imported a big one last night that didn't include a config.bmp, so I figured out using proportions how big to make one, and it worked!

The funny thing is I just looked at my join date on the left side of my message on this thread and found out I've been a member since 2003. I guess I registered way back then with the same e-mail and forgot. Matter of fact I had quit playing the game altogether until about a month ago. And somehow I vaguely remember doing this same greyscale import back then as well. It's great to find out how cool this game is once again with all this stuff that's available.

[BIWDC 2,296]

The custom content certainly has come along way since then the game is

so much better now.

[UsefullPig 1]

Found it. 

If not this one is in depth and I love it