Editing a world map

[waldronate]

Burn In To Surface downsamples your surface to the currently-set editing resolution. If you don't change it, that means that you get the a 256-wide surface, which will look really ugly. The maximum allowed editing resolution in the 32-bit version of FT is 8190 samples wide (Map>>World Settings, Editing page).

[Deadshade]

Burn In To Surface downsamples your surface to the currently-set editing resolution. If you don't change it, that means that you get the a 256-wide surface, which will look really ugly. The maximum allowed editing resolution in the 32-bit version of FT is 8190 samples wide (Map>>World Settings, Editing page).

I came back to the map after a longer break. YEs, I missed the resolution bit (it is not mentionned in the FT manual in the short comment about Burn into surface).
As I said, I don't get the same result as you did. The cliffs still more or less stay on some places.
Anyway I simply GIMPed it over so that the visual problem is solved even if the heigght field one isn't.

A small question about precipitation field in FT. How is it computed ? Just a random function with some latitude dependence ? Or did it use a partial pressure function at saturation ?

[waldronate]

A small question about precipitation field in FT. How is it computed ? Just a random function with some latitude dependence ? Or did it use a partial pressure function at saturation ?

It uses a base value with a temperature (and thus altitude) dependendence as well as a random amount. See attached for the FT V1 manual section on the elements used. It leaves out the prescale offset things because they weren't in the system at that point.