Spring RTS Engine

looking, yes

playing, unlikely...but that's a lot of terrain to pick from.

Looking: totally out of scale.
Playing: is there a single satellite map thats actually playable? I dont think so.

meh if you get a random slice of the himalayas or something the scale wont be too noticable. if you pick some obviously recognizable continent then of course its gonna look dumb because a peewee will be 100 miles wide.

does google earth store anything in a resolution that would be relevant to spring anyway?

Playing: is there a single satellite map thats actually playable? I dont think so.

victoria crater.

the randommap thingy from transport tycoon deluxe is more impressive.

... Heightmaps ...

oh.
i meant open transporttycoon btw, the open source remake. the original doesnt have that feature i think.

dunno why its 2009 and nobody has ever made a transport sim better than ttd

hunterw wrote:dunno why its 2009 and nobody has ever made a transport sim better than ttd

Because the big money is in shooters, sports games, a handful of big-name strategy games and the occasional RPG. Oh, and in the Nintendo Wii.

You make superb heightmaps through manually articulating levels. You make realistic heightmaps through doing this.

I'm in the market for realistic heightmaps for some reason, so this is useful, but it really doesn't replace the manual touch, and people should expect difficulties finding realistic heightmaps which are playable given their own abilities in resource distribution, etcetera.

You'd have to adjust the heightmap to be playable anyway.