Custom Heightmap problem

Hi :D

If you open the height maps from CAW you can get the gray values for the heights you want. Black would be the lowest water level. :)

Or, did you try the 300 height/level?

Hello! :D

I did actually pick this one from all three heights, I tried the 100, 200 and 300 shades, and neither worked. And I indeed did try the 300 height level. :(

I love your worlds by the way!

Thanks! :D

CAW isn't working on my laptop and I don't know why... Try lightening the gray, maybe? :(

Hopefully someone can look at it. Good luck! :D

Hmm... I don't understand... I even made the land pitch white and it still does this:

http://i.imgur.com/wfBg7Qz.png

You should add "width=600" just before the of your image.
The complete image will then be visible in your post.
You'll need to increase the contrast between lowest & highest level of hightmap.
Black being lowest & white highest.
If you make the bottom of the river very dark grey & land med/light grey.
The 200 or 300 map will probably work.

Edit: I'd consider re scaling river. It might be a bit big on a 2048 x 2048 map.
If you're planning on using a distant terrain with your world.
You'll not want to build too close to edge of map

But I have been remaking the Urbz map on a different scale, if I change the size it won't be the same.

And honestly that's what I did, I picked the greys from 100, 200 and 300s and neither worked, so I just tried white and black and it did this^

Anyone? :/

Okay, so I, instead of starting a new world with the heightmap, this time, started one with a default flat map, then imported the Urbz one. It raised the terrain really high and the river was still nowhere to be seen. I exported the heightmap and actually when I use my Urbz heightmap, it becomes like this:

I have problems with height maps. I have tried to create my own height maps and every time I make ONE island in Photoshop I get TWO in CAW! I've tried everything overlaying previous images and even trying others and I will either get TWO distorted islands or ONE flat plain. I'm not sure what to do does anyone have a suggestion?

I know this is an old thread but thought I'd post this as a PSA for anyone else having a similar problem (which is how I came across this).

My issue was a bit different -- CAW was applying my custom height maps to only half of the map despite that I used one of the default templates as my base. I tinkered around and eventually got a version that applied the height map twice, side-by-side in the world. I realized that the former image had a bit depth of 32 and the latter had a bit depth of 8.

Like how the thumbnail required for your world is 16 bit depth, so is the height map. I use the free image software called GIMP, which has not had an automatic way of toggling this until recently, so I've always found this frustrating when trying to make my thumbnails (I've always had to tinker with settings until I stumble upon the right combination to end up with a 16 bit depth save file).

LUCKILY, the new GIMP 2.10 and newer (first released April 2018, latest version as of this post was released April 2019) now have a "Precision" option under the "Image" drop-down. You can pick 16-bit and it will automatically convert the file for you!

Hopefully this helps someone else having this issue and Googling for a solution :smile: If you don't already have it, you can download the latest version of GIMP for free from gimp.org. Happy Simming!