Snow on mountains and Extracting heightmaps from a20 rwg maps | 7DTD

Snow on mountains and Extracting heightmaps from a20 rwg maps | 7DTD

In this video I'll show you how to get snow to appear correctly on mountain tops in a map that was created using alpha20's built-in random world generation tool in 7 Days to die. You'll also learn how to extract a heightmap from an a20 generated world!

The GIMP section of the video is completely optional and you can skip this if you are happy with the new biome map created by KingGen.

I've included the original biomes a20 made in my biome map so that biome-specific POIs within those areas don't seem out of place. You can of course completely change your Biome map if you would prefer which would make this process even quicker.

See this video for a step by step walkthrough on hand drawing a new a20 biome map:

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[comdriver]

Brad, thank you very much! Was going to add snow mountains to my game and I already knew I can edit the biomes png. But to add snow exactly on the tops I was going to generate a map preview with heights, then put them as layers in the gimp to see the mountains and then paint the snow by hand. And I was stuck with finding a way to make good preview in png. But your way with KingGen is just plain simple and the result is better than things I can do by hand.

[GavinPeters]

It's now over a year later and I'm still using this demo. Thanks again Brad!!!

[tdunbar]

thanks for sharing the knowledge. well done

[GavinPeters]

It's that time again. Another map, more snowcaps needed. It's Alpha 21 now and this technique is still going strong. Terragon is working well but this is my preferred way to paint those mountain tips.

[simonmd]

Great video and explanation. Thanks for sharing!

[duacot]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing!!

[nickwiseman]

Hey Brad thanks for this. Tried it out and worked a treat. I'm assuming that snow creatures will spawn in added snow areas on peaks? In my forest area where snow was added to top of mountain/large hill I encountered mountain lion and lumberjack even though main area was surrounding forest. Just point for viewers to be aware of

[TallmanBradGameplay]

Skip the Gimp section if you just want to use the heightmap created by KG. Simply copy and paste it over the A20 biome.png file in the appdata/... /generatedworlds/(your map)

[imnotgivingmynametoamachin]

Would you be able to do a video showing how to add better lakes and rivers?

[sunsetcreative]

I have a question about the world editor. When I try to clear out a large area all at once it ends up loading back as I enter and leave the area of its lod. I know im not crazy. stuff keeps coming back after I delete with the j key after making my selection

[fortheloveofking]

Couldn't you just put the height map as a layer above your biomes, lower the transparency so you can see the biomes underneath, manually edit the biomes and then delete the heightmap layer?