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Resources for terrain maps?

Juro Kothari
Like a dog on a bone
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
Posts: 4,418
02-16-2006 17:30
Anyone know of some resources for generating terrain maps and/or any online map sources?
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Adam Zaius
Deus
Join date: 9 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,483
02-16-2006 18:07
For SL?

Cadroe has a fairly large collection of maps of SL he's made. I've got my own toolkit which can make them as well (and do some other interesting things.).
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GigasSecondServer
Iron Perth
Registered User
Join date: 9 Mar 2005
Posts: 802
02-16-2006 18:25
You could play around with terragen .. I have to admit, I have not had much luck.
Juro Kothari
Like a dog on a bone
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
Posts: 4,418
02-16-2006 19:18
Ya - this would be for SL... I want to play around with different ideas for an island.
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Ghoti Nyak
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Join date: 7 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,078
02-17-2006 05:13
Terragen and Bryce both work... but only slightly. Terragen has the added advantage that its shareware. While using these programs you can generate some really neat terrains, but its hard to really tweak the terrains with accuracy with the tools provided. I'm finding the best answer to be to draw the terrain with Photoshop and just import into terragen or Bryce for visualisation.

-Ghoti
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