Maps4fs V1.8.242

🗺️ Supports 2×2, 4×4, 8×8, 16×16 and any custom size maps 🔄 Support map rotation 🌐 Supports custom DTM Providers 🆕 🌾 Automatically generates fields 🌽 Automatically generates farmlands 🌿 Automatically generates decorative foliage 🌲 Automatically generates forests 🌊 Automatically generates water planes 📈 Automatically generates splines 🆕 🛰️ Automatically downloads high resolution satellite images 🆕 🌍 Based on real-world data from OpenStreetMap 🗺️ Supports custom OSM maps 🏞️ Generates height map using SRTM dataset 📦 Provides a ready-to-use map template for the Giants Editor 🚜 Supports Farming Simulator 22 and 25 🔷 Generates *.obj files for background terrain based on the real-world height map 📄 Generates scripts to download high-resolution satellite images from QGIS in one click 📕 Detailed documentation and tutorials 🧰 Modder Toolbox to help you with various tasks 🌎 Detailed terrain based on real-world data. 🛰️ Realistic background terrain with satellite images. 📐 Perfectly aligned background terrain. 🌿 Automatically generates decorative foliage. 🌲 Automatically generates forests. 🌲 Allows to select trees for generation. 🌊 Automatically generates water planes. 📈 Automatically generates splines. 🖌️ Allows customization of the texture schema. 🗒️ True-to-life blueprints for fast and precise modding. 🌾 Field generation with one click. 🌽 Automatic farmlands generation based on the fields. 📹 A complete step-by-step video tutorial is here! How to Generate a Map for Farming Simulator 25 and 22 from a real place using maps4FS. Map example generated with maps4fs. There are several ways to use the tool. You obviously need the first one, but you can choose any of the others depending on your needs. Option 1: Open the maps4fs and generate a map template in a few clicks. Option 2: Run the Docker version in your browser. Launch the following command in your terminal: And open http://localhost:8501 in your browser. If you don’t know how to use Docker, navigate to the Docker version, it’s really simple. Check out the Docker FAQ if you have any questions. Option 3: Python package. Install the package using the following command: And refer to the Python package or run from the source section to learn how to use it. The core idea is coming from the awesome maps4cim project. The main goal of this project is to generate map templates, based on real-world data, for the Farming Simulator. It’s important to mention that templates are not maps. They are just a starting point for creating a map. This tool just uses built-in textures to highlight different types of terrain and buildings with correct shapes and scales and to generate a height map. The rest of the work is up to you. So if you thought that you could just run this tool and get a playable map, then I’m sorry to disappoint you. But if you are a map maker, then this tool will save you a lot of time. So, if you’re new to map making, here’s a quick overview of the process: The generator also creates multiple previews of the map. Here’s the list of them: Preview of a 16 km map with a 500-meter mountain in the middle of it. Don’t know where to start? Don’t worry, just follow this step-by-step guide to create your first map in 10 simple steps. 🟢 Recommended for all users. 🛠️ Don’t need to install anything. 🗺️ Supported map sizes: 2×2, 4×4, 8×8 km. ⚙️ Advanced settings: enabled. 🖼️ Texture dissolving: enabled. Using the public version on maps4fs.xyz is the easiest way to generate a map template. Just open the link and follow the instructions. Note: due to CPU and RAM limitations of the hosting, the generation may take some time. If you need faster processing, use the Docker version. Using it is easy and doesn’t require any guides. Enjoy! 🟠 Recommended for users who want bigger maps, fast generation, nice-looking textures, and advanced settings. 🛠️ Launch with one single command. 🗺️ Supported map sizes: 2×2, 4×4, 8×8, 16×16 km and any custom size. ⚙️ Advanced settings: enabled. 🖼️ Texture dissolving: enabled. Check out the Docker FAQ if you have any questions. You can launch the project with minimalistic UI in your browser using Docker. Follow these steps: 🔴 Recommended for developers. 🗺️ Supported map sizes: 2×2, 4×4, 8×8, 16×16 km and any custom size. ⚙️ Advanced settings: enabled. 🖼️ Texture dissolving: enabled. You can use the Python package to generate maps. Follow these steps: Or clone the repository and install the package from the source code: In this case, the library will use the default templates, which should be present in the data directory, which should be placed in the current working directory. Structure example: So it’s recommended to download the data directory from the repository and place it in the root of your project. The map will be saved in the map_directory directory. ➡️ Check out the demo.py file for a complete example. The tool now has a Modder Toolbox, which is a set of tools to help you with various tasks. You can open the toolbox by switching to the 🧰 Modder Toolbox tab in the StreamLit app. Tools are divided into categories, which are listed below. Tree Schema Editor – allows you to view all the supported trees models and select the ones you need on your map. After it, you should click the Show updated schema button and copy the JSON schema to the clipboard. Then you can use it in the Expert settings to generate the map with the selected trees. Texture Schema Editor – allows you to view all the supported textures and edit their parameters, such as priority, OSM tags and so on. After editing, you should click the Show updated schema button and copy the JSON schema to the clipboard. Then you can use it in the Expert settings to generate the map with the updated textures. Fix custom OSM file – this tool fixes the most common errors in the custom OSM file, but it can not guarantee that the file will be fixed completely if some non-common errors are present. GeoTIFF windowing – allows you to upload your GeoTIFF file and select the region of interest to extract it from the image. It’s useful when you have high-resolution DEM data and want to create a height map using it. The project is based on the OpenStreetMap data. So, refer to this page to understand the list below. You can find the active schemas here: Learn more how to work with the schema in the Texture schema section. You can also use your own schema in the Expert settings section. The script will generate the generation_info.json file in the output folder. It is split into different sections, which represent the components of the map generator. You may need this information to use some other tools and services to obtain additional data for your map. Below you’ll find descriptions of the components and the fields that they contain. ℹ️ If there’s no information about the component, it means that at the moment it does not store any data in the generation_info.json file. Example of the Config component: The Overview section contains information to create an overview image, which represents the in-game map. You can use the epsg3857_string to obtain the satellite images in the QGIS. So this section describes the region of the map plus the borders. Usually, it’s exactly 2X the size of the map. And here’s the list of the fields: Example of the Texture component: And here’s the list of the fields: The background component consists of the 8 tiles, each one representing the tile, that surrounds the map. The tiles are named as the cardinal points, e.g. “N”, “NE”, “E” and so on. Example of the Background component: And here’s the list of the fields: maps4fs uses a simple JSON file to define the texture schema. For each ofthe supported games, this file has unique entries, but the structure is the same. Here’s an example of the schema for Farming Simulator 25: Let’s have a closer look at the fields: The tool now supports the generation of the background terrain. If you don’t know what it is, here’s a brief explanation. The background terrain is the world around the map. It’s important to create it because if you don’t, the map will look like it’s floating in the void. The background terrain is a simple plane that can (and should) be textured to look fine. So, the tool generates the background terrain in the form of the 8 tiles, which surround the map. The tiles are named as the cardinal points, e.g. “N”, “NE”, “E” and so on. All those tiles will be saved in the background directory with corresponding names: N.obj, NE.obj, E.obj, and so on. If you don’t want to work with separate tiles, the tool also generates the FULL.obj file, which includes everything around the map and the map itself. It may be a convenient approach to work with one file, one texture, and then just cut the map from it. ➡️ No matter which approach you choose, you still need to adjust the background terrain to connect it to the map without any gaps. But with a single file, it’s much easier to do. If you’re willing to create a background terrain, you will need Blender, the Blender Exporter Plugins, and the QGIS. You’ll find the download links in the Resources section. If you’re afraid of this task, please don’t be. It’s really simple and I’ve prepared detailed step-by-step instructions for you, you’ll find them in the separate README files. Here are the steps you need to follow: The overview image is an image that is used as an in-game map. No matter what the size of the map, this file is always 4096x4096 pixels, while the region of your map is 2048x2048 pixels in the center of this file. The rest of the image is just here for a nice view, but you still may add satellite pictures to this region. Cool image by @ZenJakey. So, in the same way, you’ve downloaded the satellite images for the background terrain, you can download them for the overview image. Just use the epsg3857_string from the generation_info.json file. You’ll find the needed string in the Config component in the Overview section: After that, you need to resize the image to 4096×4096 pixels and convert it to the .dds format. The .dds format is the format used in the Farming Simulator for the textures, icons, overview, and preview images. There a plenty of options to convert the images to the .dds format, you can just google something like png to dds, and the first link probably will help you with it. List of the important DDS files: You can also apply some advanced settings to the map generation process. Multiplier: the height of the map is multiplied by this value. So the DEM map is just a 16-bit grayscale image, which means that the maximum available value there is 65535, while the actual difference between the deepest and the highest point on Earth is about 20 km. Just note that this setting mostly does not matter, because you can always adjust it in the Giants Editor, learn more about the DEM file and the heightScale parameter in docs. To match the in-game heights with SRTM Data provider, the recommended value is 255 (if easy mode is disabled), but depending on the place, you will need to play with both multiplier and the height scale in Giants Editor to find the best values. Blur radius: the radius of the Gaussian blur filter applied to the DEM map. By default, it’s set to 21. This filter just makes the DEM map smoother, so the height transitions will be more natural. You can set it to 1 to disable the filter, but it will result in a Minecraft-like map. Plateau: this value will be added to each pixel of the DEM image, making it “higher”. It’s useful when you want to add some negative heights on the map, that appear to be in a “low” place. By default, it’s set to 0. Water depth: this value will be subtracted from each pixel of the DEM image, where water resources are located. Pay attention that it’s not in meters, instead it in the pixel value of DEM, which is 16 bit image with possible values from 0 to 65535. When this value is set, the same value will be added to the plateau setting to avoid negative heights. Generate background – if enabled, the obj files for the background terrain will be generated. You can turn it off if you already have those files or don’t need them. By default, it’s set to True. Generate water – if enabled, the water planes obj files will be generated. You can turn it off if you already have those files or don’t need them. By default, it’s set to True. Resize factor – the factor by which the background terrain will be resized. It will be used as 1 / resize_factor while generating the models. Which means that the larger the value the more the terrain will be resized. The lowest value is 1, in this case background terrain will not be resized. Note, than low values will lead to long processing and enormous size of the obj files. Remove center – if enabled, the playable region (map terrain) will be removed from the background terrain. Note, that it will require low resize factors, to avoid gaps between the map and the background terrain. Apply decimation – if enabled, the mesh will be simplified to reduce the number of faces. Decimation percent – the target percentage of decimation. The higher the value, the more simplified the mesh will be. Note, that high values will break the 3D model entirely. Decimation agression – the aggression of the decimation. The higher the value, the more aggressive the decimation will be, which means the higher it will affect the geometry. It’s not recommended to make it higher than the default value, otherwise the background terrain will not match the map terrain. Farmlands margin – this value (in meters) will be applied to each farmland, making it bigger. You can use the value to adjust how much the farmland should be bigger than the actual field. By default, it’s set to 3. Random plants – when adding decorative foliage, enabling this option will add different species of plants to the map. If unchecked only basic grass (smallDenseMix) will be added. Defaults to True. Add Farmyards – if enabled, the tool will create farmlands from the regions that are marked as farmyards in the OSM data. Those farmlands will not have fields and also will not be drawn on textures. By default, it’s turned off. Base price – the base price of the farmland. It’s used to calculate the price of the farmland in the game. In default in-game maps this value equals to 60000. Price scale – is a value in percent which will be applied to all farmnlands. The price per Ha will be calculated as base_price * price_scale / 100. By default, it’s set to 100%. Base grass – you can select which plant will be used as a base grass on the map. Plants island minimum size – when random plants are enabled, the generator will add islands of differents plants to the map and choose the random size of those island between the minimum and maximum values. This one is the minimum size of the island in meters. Plants island maximum size – it’s the same as above, but for the maximum size of the island in meters. Plants island vertex count – the number of vertices in the island. The higher the value, the more detailed the island will be. Note, that high values will turn the smoothed island into geometric madness. Plants insland rounding radius – used to round the vertices of the island. The higher the value, the more rounded the island will be. Plants island percent – defines the relation between the map size and the number of islands of plants. For example, if set to 100% for map size of 2048 will be added 2048 islands of plants. Forest density – the density of the forest in meters. The lower the value, the lower the distance between the trees, which makes the forest denser. Note, that low values will lead to enormous number of trees, which may cause the Giants Editor to crash or lead to performance issues. By default, it’s set to 10. Trees relative shift – represents the maximum possible shift of the tree from it’s original position in percents of the forest density value. The higher the value, the more the trees will be shifted from their original positions. Warning: higher values can lead to overlapping trees. Dissolve – if enabled, the values from one layer will be splitted between different layers of texture, making it look more natural. Warning: it’s a time-consuming process, recommended to enable it, when you generating the final version of the map, not some test versions. Fields padding – this value (in meters) will be applied to each field, making it smaller. It’s useful when the fields are too close to each other and you want to make them smaller. By default, it’s set to 0. Skip drains – if enabled, the tool will not generate the drains and ditches on the map. By default, it’s set to False. Use this if you don’t need the drains on the map. Use cache – if enabled, the tool will use the cached OSM data for generating the map. It’s useful when you’re generating the same map multiple times and don’t want to download the OSM data each time. But if you’ve made some changes to the OSM data, you should disable this option to get the updated data. By default, it’s set to True. This option has no effect when you’re using the custom OSM file. The tool also supports the expert settings. Do not use them until you read the documentation and understand what they do. Here’s the list of the expert settings: Enable debug logs – if enabled, the tool will print the debug logs to the console. It can be useful if you’re using with a custom OSM map, have some issues with it and want to know what’s wrong. Upload custom OSM file – you’ll be able to upload your own OSM file. Before using it, carefully read the Custom OSM documentation, otherwise, the tool will not work as expected. Show raw configuration – you’ll be able to change all the settings in a single JSON file. It’s useful if you want to save the configuration and use it later, without changing the settings in the UI. Be extremely careful with this setting, because you can break the tool with incorrect settings. Show schemas – you’ll be able to edit or define your own texture or tree schemas. It’s useful if you want to add some custom textures or trees to the map. Refer to the Texture schema section to learn more about the schema structure. Any incorrect value here will lead to the completely broken map. Upload custom background image – if you have an image, which represents the map and background terrain you can use it for generation. Note, that the image should meet the following requirements: 1:1 aspect ratio, size = map size + 2048 * 2, it should be uint16 (unsigned 16-bit integer) grayscale (single channel) image. The image should be in the PNG format. If any of the requirements are not met, the tool raises an error. If you’re using rotation, the image should already be rotated. Upload custom map template – you can use your own map template for generation. Note, that is must have the same structure as built-in templates. It’s recommended to use the built-in templates and edit them as you need, instead of creating the new ones from scratch. Manage cache – allows you to clean the cache of the tool. It’s useful when you’re generating the map multiple times and the tool uses the cached data. By cleaning the cache you’ll force the tool to download the fresh data. It’s not recommended to clean the cache unless you have some issues with it. In this section, you’ll find a list of the resources that you need to create a map for the Farming Simulator. To create a basic map, you only need the Giants Editor. But if you want to create a background terrain – the world around the map, so it won’t look like it’s floating in the void – you also need Blender and the Blender Exporter Plugins. To create realistic textures for the background terrain, the QGIS is required to obtain high-resolution satellite images.