Region creation

[mrodgers 1]

I am a bit confused at region creation.  I have an image file I made.  I'm not worried about flat terrain, the image file is the river system I want to use.  The file is large, much larger than I can even create on my current laptop being used, but a new laptop is on it's way.  I created this on another computer.  I am trying to figure out how to get it from an image to a region file.

 

The image file size is large (you folks are probably use to large images, I am not coming from an ancient computer from 2005.)  I have an 8 bit bmp file I saved, 5120x7168 and 35mb.  I did this all in Paint.net so I can convert to whatever file I need.  I have SC4Mapper.  I can not run SC4Terraformer on this computer (I can install stuff, but don't want to add the files that might be missing from the list in the readme.)

 

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to create a region from this?  Most tutorial stuff I read is either using Photoshop or the tutorial is too old that images are no longer present.

 

Here is a preview of what I have reduced down to allowable resolution for posting....

 

 

 

[timmie 988]

Moved your thread to the Mapping Room. Chances of finding an answer here are bigger.

Tip for using the website: don't upload images to this site (because your space to save images here is very very limited!), but use an external image hosting site (imgur, flickr, imageshack,...). Upload your images to a website like these and use the hyperlink of the image to post it here.

[mrodgers 1]

Thank you, didn't realize there was a section like this.

 

I'll take note of the hosting site vs upload as well in the future.  I use Dropbox and getting the link from the website never seems to work vs. through the DB utility on my home computer.  I'll work around that next time though.

[mrodgers 1]

Don't know if anyone is reading this since no one responded yet, but I'm getting somewhere at least.  Didn't realize my large file was the wrong dimensions by 63 pixels.  I resized it and was able to load it into SCMapper.  I'm home now and tried to load it into SC4.  I ended up with very narrow rivers with straight up and down banks along with towering pillars miles into the sky.  I loaded it into SCMapper by RGB Jpeg using a white background and the blue water as my preview above.

 

I'm trying more with different colors but playing with a 37 mb Paint.net layered file is torture on this laptop, LOL.

 

The original image I created came from stitching together 1km height images taken from Yahoo maps.  I filled in the bridges across the water and erased everything in the image that wasn't water.  I have no idea how to get actual terrain data per the many tutorials I've found because most of the tutorials are years old and sites aren't around anymore, or have been updated that the tutorials don't work any more.

 

I'm trying to get a region of western PA distanced from where I live down through Pittsburgh.  I don't want to try to replicate it all exactly, but want to build most of the small towns and rural sections with putting a city in the 3 rivers area for playing around with high rises eventually.  I can't find anything for download that is of western PA.

[dirtguru 24]

Can't post the link right now but I know that NHP has a map of Pittsburgh PA available here on the S.T.E.X.

Go to Maps section and type NHP in the search section at the top right. There are 6 or seven pages of NHP maps available for download. Most are done by blade2k5, some by heblem and a few others.

Most are high quality based on D.E.M. data.