It is not used for navigable rivers or other bodies of water.
The river map is a special file that defines coasts and rivers, which is both used by the terrain engine to paint rivers on your map as well as to define where river crossing are for armies.
These will be created by the CK3 map editor when a heightmap is repacked and saved.Īn example river map of Ireland and part of Britain Other heightmap files Īlong with "heightmap.png", there are also two important automatically generated heightmap files, "indirection_heightmap.png" and "packed_heightmap.png".
The heightmap dimensions must match the "original_heightmap_size" definition defined in "/map_data/heightmap.heightmap". The heightmap is found at "/map_data/heightmap.png", and must be saved as a 16bit greyscale image. Heightmaps are represented as greyscale images, where black is the lowest possible elevation, and white is the highest possible elevation.Ĭreating a heightmap įor real world locations, NASA provides detailed heightmaps to the public through the topography section of the Blue Marble project.įictional heightmaps are usually created using a combination of software, often an image editor like Photoshop or GIMP and terrain generation software like World Machine or Gaea. The heightmap is the base of every map, and defines the overall shape of the non-paper map. You can import new assets later from within the editor.Īn example heightmap of Ireland and part of Britain Do this with a map that functions before you try to use anything you've created.
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