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Costal terraforming - request for advice
TheMurderousCricket posted a topic in Mapping Community Room
Hi Guys, I have a question regarding the workflow and "how to" of performing terraforming tweaks to a region with multiple already existing cities and, like, really big number of city tiles... My specific goal is to change the coastline of my entire region to make it look more organic because I find it too smooth. I tested two methods which I am familiar with. First, I used in-game erosion tool but it has several downsides. First of all, I would need to open all coastal city tiles (which go into a hundred pieces I believe...) to even apply the tool. Second, the effect itself is less than satysfying... The erosion works in a simplistic combing pattern leaving marks which look as if the shore was raked with giant gardening tools... Also, the coast line is not even altered at all... The second way, involves using SC4T and applying "Erosion" global tool twice. I generally like the result it produces, as it creates more rugged coastline and random displacements all over the shore. It also leaves some of the coast intact which allows for some gentle beaches still. The problem I have with this method is that it is... well, global. This means that everything unprotected will be affected as well, which I am not entirely fond of. I am inclined to use this method but this would mean that I'd still have to manually check all tiles I do not wish to edit and only then run the global erosion tool. My question is if there is any other method which could produce the same global "randomization" effect that SC4T offers. Just faster - that would allow surgical terraforming along the region's coast without me having to first pick all tiles I do not wish to terraform? -
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Version 2
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Update version 2.0 Retuned quarter Erosion set Fixed NE500m.dat Fixed QE250.dat All mods are standarised and identical to MallowTheClouds mod as far as the topographic scaling is concerned. They can be used with any texture set that does not alter this scale. Issues Bad news : The Erosion and Equalize tool in god mod won't work anymore Installation and Usage 1) Locate this in your storage folder for use 2)When you want to render install add one of the plugins with the elevation 3)described to your plugins folder. 4)The cohice of the erosion control is up to you. NE denotes no errosion and QE 5)quarter erosion rate and 2E double the erosion rate. 6)Render your map. 7)Quit sc4 and remove the plugin 8)you can then reuse the erode tools if you so wish Final Credits Mallow the cloud and Wouanagnine for their prior plugins Copyright you can use this anyway you want and thedistribute anyway you wish however i do ask for notification prior to distribution and credit if you chose to distrubute at other websites
