Fractal Terrains Climate

Wade Alonzo · September 2014

Hi - I'm a new map maker and I'm customizing a FT world. I have a few climate questions:

When you create say a mountain range does FT automatically recalc the rainfall and temp for the world to account for rainshadows etc??? If not, can you force that?
What are the climates based on? Rainfall and temp only or a more complicated algorithm? Can this be adjusted?

Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

JimP · September 2014

FT3 doesn't cover rainshadows that I know of.

Wade Alonzo · September 2014

Bummer.

illuminatispy · September 2014

What I do is. I save a JPG image of the world. I manually decide where my equator is, determine the ITCZ, the jet stream, the subtropical highs and lows, the polar highs and lows and the easterly and westerly winds. I paint and mark up this info on the saved JPG.

Once I have an idea what the world weather and climate patterns will look like I go in to the FT saved world and paint the rain shadows by hand and a slight increase in rain on the opposite side of the mountain range. I then work on getting the climates right.

Wade Alonzo · September 2014

Thanks for the idea. I will try that. I've been pursuing something similar...on the forum I ran across mention of Geoff's climate cookbook which prescribes something similar.

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