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Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I a…
I manually reviewed the map to find places like these and added a few extra elevation data points, to correct things like closed straits, tiny islands, etc. I ran some hydrological analysis tools, but, due to the bumpy nature of the terrain (both because of my noise, and because of the original game map elevations) I mostly got a lot of endorheic basins and stubby rivers. The original DEM also still needs some further cleanup (I had to manually patch a couple of missing lakes and islands onto the map, but I didn’t fix them in the elevation model).
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