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    Guild Journeyer Guild Supporter mbartelsm's Avatar
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    Question Make Topographic maps

    does anyone knows how to make a topo map?

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    Administrator waldronate's Avatar
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    Starting with a heightfield, use something like Photoshop. Use the Posterize adjustment to get the number of contours, followed by the Find Edges filter convert the posterized image into contours. I then did a fade operation to get the slight background in there:

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    After that it's labeling and decoration.

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