Map making

[Bidoflazy 8]

Hello everyone.

 

I want to make a map to share it on the ST/Exchange. Now I got a little question. What's the best way to make one? Is there a special program I have to download what makes it easier to make a map or do I just have to use the tools in-game?

[JWL 52]

You can use SC4 Terraformer, which allows you to modify the terrain of an entire region at once.

 

Or you can make simple height-maps and load them into SC4Mapper.

 

Either way you go about it, the easiest way to distribute the region would be to export it as a .SC4M file in SC4Mapper.

[Ro-Bo 183]

There's something called "Landscape Designer" that can create random map (greyscale image of the map).

[Cougar2004 128]

I'm not sure if what I want relates to this topic, but I bet it does...

 

Remember back in SimCity 3000 I think it was?  You could start a random landscape city with a % of water and land and decide if you wanted a river through it or a side to be a shore, etc.

 

I would love to make some of these random but cool landscapes to play with in SC4.  Any idea how to quickly and easily do that?