Today I downloaded the Trial version of Fractal Terrains Pro to see if I could generate some grey-scale rainfall and temperature maps. The trial version only allows rather tiny images to be written to disk, but I managed to do some larger screengrabs at about 1Kx512.

Unfortunately, after loading World4.ftw (available in World4.zip at http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...&postcount=105 ) and saving the various maps that FTPro generated from it, I discovered that FTPro hadn't created exactly the same surface image as is being used for the CWBP. While the differences aren't major, the fact that there are any differences at all is distressing.



zoom.jpg uses the map from the forum, alt uses the map generated by FTPro. It looks like it decided to use a slightly lower land height. There more small lakes and the mountains are lower, too.

*sigh*