First Map -New York and Canada [WIP] - grateful for any tips

[benjones]

I've created my first map/scenario of the NY/Canada region using the fantastic mapgen.exe

It's highly stylised and flat for easy gameplay e.g. exaggerted island size for NY and Montreal, fictional mountains.

I'd be grateful for any tips for increased accuracy.

I used Google Earth to get an image and manipulated into a Grayscale 384x384 image with Paintshop, attached. I painted the land mass grey and mountains with lighter colours as they get higher. I always end up with year round snow however - clearly my land height is too high (I had to set sea level at 20 in mapgen.exe just to see any water) but I don't know how to manipulate the land height. Is it to do with the input bmp image? I have chosen British climate btw.

As for naming towns and industries, does anyone have the problem with inserting a space into a two word name, e.g. "New York". Whenever I key spacebar, I don't get any response or the label defaults to its original state.

Thanks for your patience with a newbie.

BTW the scenario requires the US auto industry mod and US/Canada trains from AMItrains

[Train-a-Mania]

I think there is a space - it's just very small.

However, I would try and make the terrain less smooth. Otherwise, it will be very easy.

[wyctor]

interesting...the main picture was saw 35 times, and the rar was downloaded 42 times

[Chrill]

Now the pic's been shown 3 times more