P;ease Frontier- provide real-world terrain maps of real world zoos

oca2074 · May 26, 2023

I have a lot of favourite zoos and it would be great to start from scratch and rebuild it from the ground up and make changes. But it's difficult to recreate the unique terrain and so I ask that terrain maps (based on satellite imagery) from real world zoos be made available?

I want to (for example) take the 100 acre hilly terrain of San Diego Zoo and see what I can do with it. I'm sure everyone has their favourite zoo that they would love to build on their real world terrain approximation.

ZSHplays · May 26, 2023

With a bit of work you can do this yourself, watch this:

synthetase · May 26, 2023

That's a cool idea! I know you could replicate many areas in the world with the heightmaps. The problem I and (I hope) others have is that its hard to come by greyscale terrain models. I will watch the video though. Thanks for the idea @oca2074 and the video @ZSHplays

oca2074 · May 27, 2023

synthetase said:
That's a cool idea! I know you could replicate many areas in the world with the heightmaps. The problem I and (I hope) others have is that its hard to come by greyscale terrain models. I will watch the video though. Thanks for the idea @oca2074 and the video @ZSHplays

The problem with just terrain maps is that zoos have arbitrary borders (aren't in perfect shapes). So if I wanted to do the San Diego Zoo, I also need a precise marker designating the boundaries of the zoo to avoid considering building stuff outside of it. This helps with planning layout if I knew the exact boundaries of the zoo and it would be fun if the boundaries corresponded to real-life.