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gm_sahara

The Shara desert is the third largest desert in the world; the first being Antarctica and the second being the North Arctic. The Sahara Desert covers 3.6 million square miles. It is almost the same size as the United States or China.

This template was originally a test map, which is the obvious reason why there is not much to it than dunes. But here is why it is here:
The purpose is to test my ability to design a heightmap texture in Gimp 2 editor that properly registers as an altitude translation in a program called TerrainGenerator.exe. The goal was to simulate the most realistic geological depiction of what it looks like when hills are blown in wind in one direction for a long enough time to erode the landscape to pure sediment. The heightmap image above is translated through the terrain generator's depth algorithm; all of the areas in white are the hightest altitude and all areas in black are the lowest. Though I thought it would be a useful map for you to make screenshots and have fun driving dunebuggies. While the landscape is not absolutely the maximum map size gmod allows, the map has the maximum terrain detail permitted without a "engine hunk overflow" (meaning there are exaclty 524,288 triangles in 512*64 units of map-ness). As a result, I give you the smoothest dunes capable.

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Requirements: None. It is not worth putting you through errors.
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You have my permission to redistribute this map/use heightmap for other terrain generating as long as you give credit to me and the owner(s) of the models.
The sand texture is not mine. It is from the3rdSequence and the image was edited for this purpose. The texture cannot be redistributed elswhere. If the author wants the map to be taken down for fear that the texture will be stolen, then I will not hinder.

Credits:
AceMice - Foliage Pack (models)
Sand blend texture - internet source edited in Gimp 2 and programmed by me.