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Cairo Egypt

yea I stick to the free hightmaps lol but yea I noticed Terrian party has its faults and I give the road space I give for a reason and thats so you have the freedom to make your own structure, I just put the road inputs and outputs for ya to get started.

What I meant by roads and bridges is that the actual real map is very congested with them. It screws up the way the height map works if you get it from Terrain.party. It's unfortunate. I had another awesome height map but the person that created it put a grid on it, so when I imported it everything looked great with this mountain like grid all over it, almost like 1000 mini prisons around the land. It looked like something from a scary movie! US geographic data is the best to import into the game. Europe is pretty good as well. I've heard that there are companies that have excellent resolution heightmaps but you have to pay for them. I'm satisfied with what I put together for now.

well thanks for the comment but yea , roads and bridges I don’t go into , and I haven’t lived their one bit so I took a guess off the common terrain of north Africa, and well the other hightmaps I’ve seen from my source were pretty good it’s just this one I kind of knew I messed up a bit on considering I haven’t lived their recently and the height at first was already messed up so I needed to tweak for my water levels so there not everywhere, and as for the Nile , I know it flows north my friend told me that too it’s just I think I forgot to add it to the map lol but yea thanks for pointing out some of my flaws.

The height map is inaccurate for two reasons: 1. the data is terrible 2. the roads, bridges etc get in the way. I wasted a lot of time with it, so what I did was get an image off of google and use Paint + GIMP to create it. I used the Mapping tools inside of game to fine tune it according to how it would look based on terrain maps from Bing. I also lived there for a good chunk of my life so I did have a bit of an advantage ;) Most of Cairo is not desert, only the newer areas from Heliopolis out to the Airport. The nile and delta are the most fertile places on Earth. The Nile also flows Northward which is tricky to do. I just put the sea level where it is right under the land level and then added water at the southern side of the map. It was tough and I almost gave up like 100 times, but passion kept me going!

Cairo hight map was kinda hard to deal with at first, and from what I saw there was a river heading down the middle, dont know how big but I tried messing with the terrain as much as I could to get the water right lol. Most messup was probable due to smothening and trying to get the water right on this map cause i had a problem doing that, sorry for your concern.

Not even close!