Real World Heightmaps

[stonegarden]

If you like to have a real landscape as a decoration for your zoo, I will post some PZ heightmaps created using the heightmap of the world. You will find in the link file the famous rock of Australia, Ayers Rock, Mount Fuji or Kilimanjaro, Easter Island or Galapagos, Hawaii or Santorini or a fragment of the Grand Canyon, USA. The islands are easier to transform into PZ heightmaps, the terrain forms inside the continents are more difficult to adapt because they create high edges that do not offer fluency. In case you have suggestions of islands with interesting terrain or isolated mountainous forms in flat, plain areas, I am willing to turn them into heightmaps for PZ. (Translated with Google Translate!)

 

[stonegarden]

One of the world heightmap sources: https://tangrams.github.io/heightmapper/

 

[abigenius]

Thank you, this it's so good

 

[stonegarden]

You are welcome. Hope you enjoy them in the game.

 

[random goat]

You are a real hero. I had never thought of using the heighmap feature in PZ but these maps you provide have made me change my mind. A few days ago I started a zoo with the Santorini map!

 

[Veah]

The islands are easier to transform into PZ heightmaps, the terrain forms inside the continents are more difficult to adapt because they create high edges that do not offer fluency.

I really like this idea, it could be the key to easily randomize the starting maps. You choose some small island without a distinctive outline, obtain its heightmap and voilà! Fresh new map with relief, it just needs a bit of terrain smoothing.

 

[stonegarden]

You are a real hero. I had never thought of using the heighmap feature in PZ but these maps you provide have made me change my mind. A few days ago I started a zoo with the Santorini map!

I am glad that I can be useful in enriching the playing conditions. I would love to see how your new zoo evolves in the landscape offered by Santorini. If you don't mind, maybe post some images. Thanks.

 

[stonegarden]

I really like this idea, it could be the key to easily randomize the starting maps. You choose some small island without a distinctive outline, obtain its heightmap and voilà! Fresh new map with relief, it just needs a bit of terrain smoothing.

It would be even better if there was a start map with a sea in which you can apply a heightmap with an real or invented island. Otherwise, instead of the sea that surrounds the island, all that remains is to design a zoo on the flat land where the sea should have been, perhaps using part of the island too.

 

[Veah]

It would be even better if there was a start map with a sea in which you can apply a heightmap with an real or invented island. Otherwise, instead of the sea that surrounds the island, all that remains is to design a zoo on the flat land where the sea should have been, perhaps using part of the island too.

Yes, I think we are specially in need of a sea map since the Europe pack gave us that great ferry that works as an entrance.