Rainfall/Climate "plug ins"?

[Wil]

Not as far as I know, Wil, but Joe Slayton, who wrote Fractal Terrains is a member of these forums, so if anyone would know, he would. Welcome to the Guild, by the way!

Thanks. This is probably the wrong subforum for this I just realized. Anyway, I have Wilbur and have already imported my map into it and done some operations (this was before I realized I hadn't updated FTPro and that's why I couldn't find functions like Incise Flow that Joe's tutorial talked about). I've also changed some mountain ranges, done various fills, smooths, etc. so I'm sure that the rainfall would have changed somewhat from when FTPro first generated the map. What I think I'm going to do is try to export the map out of FTPro in one of the height map formats (MDR maybe? I'm not familiar enough yet) and then recreate the world from that map. That should reset the rainfall and climates, after which I've found some good sites on worldbuilding that I can use to tweak things a bit.

[waldronate]

Thanks. This is probably the wrong subforum for this I just realized. Anyway, I have Wilbur and have already imported my map into it and done some operations (this was before I realized I hadn't updated FTPro and that's why I couldn't find functions like Incise Flow that Joe's tutorial talked about). I've also changed some mountain ranges, done various fills, smooths, etc. so I'm sure that the rainfall would have changed somewhat from when FTPro first generated the map. What I think I'm going to do is try to export the map out of FTPro in one of the height map formats (MDR maybe? I'm not familiar enough yet) and then recreate the world from that map. That should reset the rainfall and climates, after which I've found some good sites on worldbuilding that I can use to tweak things a bit.

FT adjusts the computed climate map as you edit the world. FT lacks basic features for its terrain model such as heat and water transport across the world face, giving rather idiosyncratic local conditions.

I wouldn't recommend exporting the map from FT unless you have a very good reason because recreating it in FT is likely to yield pretty much the same results for climate. Learn about reasonable placements for climate types and use the editing tools to adjust temperature and rainfall to get what you're after. And praying for better modeling in a future FT revision wouldn't hurt, either.