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[cephalo]

Here's the heightmap I used, so others can try:



save that, convert to bmp using paint or photoshop

Wow, the Anduin river follows that little channel.

[Djohaal]

Here's the heightmap I used, so others can try:



save that, convert to bmp using paint or photoshop

It's a modified (cropping mostly) version of a map i grabbed off Simtropolis.

ANOTHER SIMTROPOLITE?!

[Turambar]

Here's the heightmap I used, so others can try:



save that, convert to bmp using paint or photoshop

Wow, the Anduin river follows that little channel.

Yeah, but the Rhun and Nurnen seas get filled in.

[cephalo]

Here's the heightmap I used, so others can try:



save that, convert to bmp using paint or photoshop

Wow, the Anduin river follows that little channel.

Yeah, but the Rhun and Nurnen seas get filled in.

Ah, keep in mind that on the elevation tab, oceans below a specified size get filled in. Turn that number to zero or a pretty small number to prevent that.

[Turambar]

Here's the heightmap I used, so others can try:
save that, convert to bmp using paint or photoshop

Wow, the Anduin river follows that little channel.

Yeah, but the Rhun and Nurnen seas get filled in.

Ah, keep in mind that on the elevation tab, oceans below a specified size get filled in. Turn that number to zero or a pretty small number to prevent that.

Gotcha.  Also, I'll try and make Mordor more of a desert.  It's too bad I can't paint good and evil.

EDIT: Oh crap!  The Lonely Mountain, one of the most Dwarfly places in Middle-Earth, is missing on this map!  I can't even put it in the right place, there's a river in the way.  I'll have to put it further north.

[Vattic]

So is someone else going to make Middle-Earth or should I?

I was going to back in 40d but I couldn't get the heightmap looking right nor find a decent one through google. It's great someone has finally done this. I still might have a go myself in the future.

[Turambar]

I've refined it a bit.  It's still got some big circular marks where I adjusted some heights with the built in brush, but most of it seems to have turned out fine.

Still need to gen it until north is cold and south is hot, but that's not too huge of an inconvenience, right?

The World

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The Bitmap

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and if anyone requests it, I'll upload my save from perfectworld

[Vattic]

It's looking really good. I would appreciate the save. Oh and the image you uploaded has been converted to .jpg.

[Turambar]

It's looking really good. I would appreciate the save. Oh and the image you uploaded has been converted to .jpg.

Yeah, but I used the lightest compression possible, so it should go back to bmp nicely in paint.

Here's my PerfectWorld save (on megaupload): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DP46ZQL1

[peterix]

Yeah, but I used the lightest compression possible, so it should go back to bmp nicely in paint.

Meet the PNG format. It is meant for putting raster images on the internet and is lossless by default   Also tiny compared to BMP.

[gavento]

Wonderful tool! Thank you!

In case somebody still cares, I got PerfectWorldDF 1.1 running under Linux on my laptop (Thinkpad X41, Ubuntu 10.4)
with the simple command "mono PerfectWorldDF.exe".
Required Ubuntu packages are mono-runtime (possibly with other mono CIL libraries, mono-complete installs them all if you do not mind the size) and libmono-winforms2.0-cil (not installed by mono-complete).

The program reacts bit slowly to most edits/adjustments, but I blame it on my PC being only 1.6 GHz.

[PTTG??]

I demand temperature control or a full refund!

[LordMelvin]

Wow! Awesome!

except....

Dangit! Now I have to go dig out Civ IV to see how your maps worked on that one... grrrrr...

[Maxxeh]

is it possible to reverse engineer the process? world to heightmap? I'm a 3D designer, and having an extremely indepth heightmap from my world would be amazing!

[PTTG??]

DF allows you to export that in legends mode. I made a thread for one of the worlds I exported, I'll look around for a link somewhere...