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  1. 04-08-2016, 02:14 PM #1
    JustaFleshWound
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    Help Software for city creation

    I want to make a very large and detailed city map, but the software i'm seeing around here seems to be overworld and terrain generators. Does anyone know a good starting program for city building, or maybe a set of resources for use in Photoshop? Thanks.

    Reference for what I want to make (ballpark)
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  2. 04-08-2016, 03:30 PM #2
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    I just found this software this week. It's the program built for some academic work on street modeling.* It's probably not what you want -- flaky, a little painful to use, aimed at modern-era maps, and you have to compile it yourself, but it builds things like this (from the linked webpage):
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    * Guoning Chen, Gregory Esch, Peter Wonka, Pascal Mueller and Eugene Zhang. "Interactive Procedural Street Modeling". ACM Transaction on Graphics 27(3) (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 200
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    There is this old tutorial that might give you some ideas:

    http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=8897

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  4. 04-11-2016, 05:27 AM #4
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    Oh wow, thanks Rob, that's actually really good for me. Thank you a lot!
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