Greenfish Relief Map Generator

Greenfish Relief Map Generator is a lightweight and portable application that gives you the possibility of creating images which look like real relief maps, containing random settlements names and relief units. It can be easily handled by all types of users, regardless of their level of experience.

Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can just drop the executable file anywhere on the hard drive and run it immediately.

Otherwise, Greenfish Relief Map Generator can be moved to a USB flash drive or similar storage unit, from where you can run it on any workstation with minimum effort.

What's important to mention is that the Windows Registry section does not get entry updates, and files are not left behind on the hard drive after removing the app.

The interface of the utility consists of a single window with two tabs where you can set the map parameters and customize the style. The image map can be previewed on the bottom part of the screen, and you can enable an option to automatically refresh it whenever you make changes.

You can select the map size, random seed number, relief diversity, amount of water and of towns, as well as insert a plain text document containing a town database, in order to scatter locations all over the map.

As far as style goes, you can select a color for the minimum and maximum sea depth, plains, hills, mountains, land borders, map frame, grid and town names, as well as establish the grid size, amount of shadows, town mark and name size. These parameters can be listed as an image caption.

All of these settings can be saved to file for further projects. Once your work is done, you can save the generated map as a Bitmap file (BMP format), by selecting the target folder and file name.

Greenfish Relief Map Generator is very light on the system resources, requiring a minimal quantity of CPU and memory. It has a good response time and works well, without causing the OS to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. We have not come across any issues throughout our evaluation. Too bad that Greenfish Relief Map Generator has not been updated for a while.