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[WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 03 Apr 2011 13:29
by sshy
I want to start making a realistic Sydney City scenario.
But there's a problem... The mapgen program doesn't work properly for me in Wine. (I'm running on a Mac)
I was wondering if someone would be keen on working on the scenario with me.
Basically all I need is the landscape generated from the satellite photo (Which I will provide).
Once that's done, I'll take care of the rest.
The scenario will include real existing main roads like Victoria road, Epping road etc. and suburbs ranging up towards Chatswood, Ryde, Epping, Concord, Drummoyne, Darlinghurst, City Circle etc.
I may even create a save game along with it and setup the City Rail lines and the main Sydney Buses bus stops, along with any other landmark MODS I can find that resemble the city.
Here's the satellite shot of the region that I'm thinking of creating.
Previews -
SYDNEY SATELLITE
SYDNEY DIRECTORY
PM me or post if your interested and I'll send you the .bmp
Kindest.
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 05 Apr 2011 10:22
by C3805.
I reckon give it a go, but you will have trouble with replicating some of the arterial routes, especially Victoria Road. Try to focus on building the Main Suburban line too, from Central to Strathfield at least, and see where you can go from there. But it is impossible to include everything in, you will probably only end up doing Zone 1 of CityRail.
Do your best, it's always good when someone decides to make something Aussie in locomotion. 
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 06 Apr 2011 04:03
by sshy
Yeah I definitely won't be able to fit every little suburb in... Only the main ones will probably make it, but that's all good.
I'll have to trial and error with different satellite shots/landscapes. The roads and rail are going to be a nightmare to setup, but I like a challenge.
It'll be a fun little project, something to work on during my long breaks at uni.
Thanks for your support C3805!
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 06 Apr 2011 04:29
by Plastikman
A little piece of advice. When making your map, use a clean objdata folder. Once you're done, then you could consider a modded version.
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 06 Apr 2011 07:02
by sshy
Understood.
So is anyone keen on helping me in generating the landscape?
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 06 Apr 2011 08:19
by C3805.
I have an idea, rather than creating the unorganised and congested series of roads that make up Sydney, you could focus on the trains. You could set up the scenario like a model railroad, modelling the Inner West Line: Liverpool Via City Circle. Similar to Zimmlock's famous Peninsula World.
Though noone has made the K set or C set. 
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:27
by sshy
Okay, so the person who was going to generate the landscape for me with the photo hasn't gotten back to me for some time...
Would anyone like to help me with this project? I require someone with the 'Landscape Generator' program to generate the landscape for me.
Landscape Generator ->
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=10713
I will provide the satellite image.
I would do it myself, however the program does not work properly on my mac not even through my VMware.
Anyone interested in helping me to get this project started PM me.
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 13:33
by Kevo00
Do it in bootcamp...
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 21 Apr 2011 13:57
by sshy
I'm not going to purchase a brand new copy of windows just to do this.
All my other computers in the house are macs.
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 22 Apr 2011 11:14
by LaSeandre
*cough cough* You can PURCHASE windows?!
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 29 Apr 2011 13:06
by uktrackbuilder_loco
sshy wrote:I'm not going to purchase a brand new copy of windows just to do this.
All my other computers in the house are macs.
Right just did a quickie build off the sat image I do hope you have a landscape image that is relief contoured and not that does not contain buildings, roads etc. The amount of noise in that image just produces a very broken landscape with nothing of note to it, in fact you can barely make out the harbour itself.
If you have a decent contour relief based image pm it to me and I'll do it asap
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:59
by adelaide_obahn
I created a Sydney map that I play. I have all the Sydney trains in it too.
Re: [WIP] Sydney City Scenario
Posted: 18 Jul 2018 21:23
by alessandro
Like someone else said, you need a terrain map, not a satellite photo, and the terrain map has to have a grayscale that's equivalent to the elevation of the terrain. Such maps aren't always easy to get a hold of, I used to have a program on my pc where you could browse world maps of this type. Are you still working on this map? If so I could try and look up where I got that.