Eilat & Aqaba
A real-life 1:1 map – large flat central area with nice slopes for the edges and mountains forming the backdrop make this a really nice map for those of you who like to have lots of room to stretch out and be creative but still want nice scenic views on the sides.
Eilat, Israel and Aqaba, Jordan are two neighboring port cities on the Red Sea. There’s a nice video for each above. The same impressive scenes of the highway that winds down the mountainside on the Eilat video can also be experienced in this map! 🙂
You start in Eilat on a very attractive piece of land – slightly sloped, which will offer beautiful expansive views of your city along the flat beach shore. I’ve made two handy start square roundabouts for you, built so you have efficient connections that minimize slowdowns on the traffic circle.
INSTRUCTIONS & HELP iIMAGES!
Lots of guide images to help you plan your city and figure out what the squares next to you wil have as you decide which direction to expand to.
Helpful beginning square dual enties for road and rail.
DESERT THEME WITH BEAUTIFUL RESOURCES AS PAINT!
This uses Avanya’s Semi Desert Theme. It has beautiful dried, cracked mud flats as oil, and ore is a nice gravelly texture. All three together make a very nice palette for this area!
I used Cinematic HD LUT for these shots. Try out different kinds of LUTs. This theme is very flexible in how it looks under differents LUT, which is great since it allows you to pick what look you like!
As you build your city, you may want to use Surface Painter Mod by BloodyPenguin to keep your oasis farm fields colors and other terrain decoration that may be consumed by the industry occupying the space.
TREES by MrMaison
Regional trees Acacia and Canary Island Date Palm are used as the trees in this map, although very sparsely planted. This is a very dry landscape with barely much growing outside of the human settlements.
REAL LIFE 1:1 SCALE
This true to life map began as a heightmap from the website terrain.party, was run through the Wilbur geologic program, and finished up by hand.
The roads are located in true to life paths thanks to the mod Overlayer2, which you can find here:
Overlayer v2 Mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=662933818&searchtext=overlay
GET YOUR COPY OF OVERLAY OF EILAT / AQABA MAP HERE! 🙂 http://imgur.com/a/FyvGr
Israel Hwy 12 and on the other side Jordan’s Aqaba Highway 80 offer magnificent views as you descent down to Eilat and Aqaba respectively.
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Semi desert theme — Steam Workshop
Acacia Tree — Steam Workshop
Canary Island Date Palm — Steam Workshop
