The Munich to Venice map is great, with easy money opportunities on both the German and Italian plains, the long-run objective of making a long route across the Alps for which the dimensions of the map make really interesting, and lots of challenges in linking up villages along the side valleys.

The mountain scenery is perhaps a little rounded and less dramatic than is realistic.

And this would be better as a "no industry" map - the way the industries are scattered randomly so that in the Alps there are industries right at the top of mountains - is rather silly.

@MKH1020 if you are interested, the Rhatische Bahn map has now been released for TpF2. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2166824542

@MKH1020 range is 80-700 for the Wallis map. But with my experience with the Tpf2 map editor you can just ignore that and see for yourself what best fits the map for the new game. generally i feel like you need less height in tpf2 than in tpf1 so something like 95-500 might now be better i think.

I think I'll take Valais then, do you happen to have it's sea level written somewhere (maybe in the map.lua)?

@MKH1020 if you want to try your best at the Wallis map or the Salzburg to Trieste map that is fine. but not the Rhatische Bahn and München to Venice map. On those last 2 maps i have been working on making TpF2 maps myself. they are almost done. expect like idk 4 different versions of the munchen to venice map, and 1 version of the Rhatische bahn map to be released in the net couple of days or weeks.

These have been really great maps, I have really enjoyed them!
Could I port those maps to TpF2? As there's already the heightmaps, and you have given the range...

Wow, absolutly perfect!
Thank you!

@Incrediblejimmy yeah it's decently easy to do when making the map, since you can just like the towns, just click a button to place them. However i pretty much always place a huge amount of cities on a map, resulting in it taking over an hour some times to place te cities, and there being almost no room left on the map for manually placed industry. that said, you were interested in less towns, so you can always just get the heightmap from the mod file, and through the map in the map creation tool again, so you can place towns and industry as you like it.

Are there no parameters that control how much industry is placed? Maybe if I find the time I might look into manual placement for my game...hopefully not that hard...(I guess mostly annoying?)...

Just recently came across some maps with manually placed Ind and had to discover how much it adds to gameplay when you can't just pick and choose which industries best link to your routes but are forced to adapt to the map....

@Incrediblejimmy yeah the industry is spawned randomly, and the game likes flat terrain, so it will most likely spawn most of the industry there, then again, the valleys are the places where industry is usueally concentrated in the real world too.

Tried some of the maps, I have to say they have a very nice terrain, but sometimes less could be better...applies for cities and especially Industries...it seems a bit overloaded in the flat areas...

@j.pierre.petit yeah it's a known problem with the Trieste map.... there was a warning for it in the description of the mod. If you use the "no initial roads" mod the map will load succesfully, but you will have to construct all road outside the towns yourself. the problem with the map is that 1 or more of the towns is placed on too harsh terrain, and therefor fails to connect the road network.... i was unfortunately despite hours of trying unable to fix this problem with this map, as i failed to find which town(s) were the problem...

The map Trieste dosn't work. "impossible to trace the road network". Pity; otherwise the map Augsburg Venice is superb; except that the very high number of cities saturates the game very quickly ...

WOW o.O

Ok, thanks

And a map just of the Switzerland ?

@Cibaris yeah, let's all hope the performance patch will fix the game! :)

If this game gets repaired in terms of perfromance which it might, I will then download your map. Switzerland is my area of gaming.

Know the feeling having tried to stitch four maps together via terrain party. In the end I made my own and spent a god awful amount of time. However the mods I have prioduced take an insane amount of time, good its winter .

@Bahamut well, to be honest i haven't really given the idea of a full cross-Alpine map. While i like the idea, i think the map size limmitations of this game would mean that you have to dumb down the map too much, not to mention that the valleys would become too narrow..... so unless the up the maximum siz of maps, i don't see it hapening.

not to mention that the way i create these maps would make it a painfully hard job: i use the tiles provided by terrain.party. Unfortunately this site can only cover a certain map size a time, resulting in me having to connect different tiles..... and beleive me, the heights of the tiles do not connect to each other at all, resulting in hours of try - and- error- work to have the tiles connect.....

Hello

Nice and good idea this 4 maps

But is it in your means to make a map taking all the Alps centered on Switzerland ?

Traveling from Lyon to France, to Salzburg in Austria and from Munich to Germany, to Venice in Italy ?