Do you know how hard it is to be a mapping noobie and not ask a single mapping question in VoIP when Catbox is in your squad?

You can also adjust the tiling in the editor... to help with the steep terrain
take a look at the terrain.con of kubra dam or fushe

Thanks, I'll check that out!  Your posts over at BFeditor have really helped get me started mapping.  Appreciate what you're doing.

The big issue you may have is the cliff walls will look a bit goofy if you don't play with the settings for the texture your using.

I'm not sure I understand.  Do you mean in-game video settings (low, medium, high, custom)?  As it is there is some strange morphing of terrain as you get closer.  It only happens in certain areas where the shift from vertical to horizontal is most extreme.

Yes, will that be a problem?

Yeah, I worried about the streching also but it seems to look alright for the most part.  I'm not a big stickler on graphics though.  Maybe someone with a more discerning eye would be more critical?  I do have the video settings on high so that may help.  It looks bad on the lowest settings but thats to be expected?  Haven't tried any settings in between.

Anyway, I'll post some follow-up screenshots so you guys can check it out.  Thanks for the help.

Post a screenshot so I know what you mean.;)

My title is misleading, sorry.  My concern isn't the heightmap itself.  It is that by lifting and lowering the terrain in this manner creates a whole new (vertical) plain.  With the cliff walls running the length of the map along with the walls of the river I was thinking that there might be problems processing and rendering all this extra real estate.

But if the terrain appearance won't impact performance I should be alright.

You're not rendering a new vertical plane.  You're rendering terrain that is always there, just in a different position.  It wont make a difference, but I can't imagine it will look good, especially with the textures stretched out across it.

It should be able to handle it all right, however realize by default the difference between highest and lowest point is huge, a lot more than you could possibly need to use.  You may want to bring them a bit closer together and just raise the water level.

Yes the difference is huge indeed .  Makes for some pretty cool vantage points.  The map started out as a gimmick for me to fly my a-wing through the canyon pass and has been evolving since.

The idea would be to work your way up from a beach landing to the main imperial base on the plateau through a succession of CPs and increasingly elevated terrain.  The gamemode would be like the Endor Strike Team map.  Linked CPs that cannot be recaptured.  Some CPs can only be accessed by crossing the river canyon using bridges, crazy speeder-bike drivers or air troop transport (if/when they are added).

My title is misleading, sorry.  My concern isn't the heightmap itself.  It is that by lifting and lowering the terrain in this manner creates a whole new (vertical) plain.  With the cliff walls running the length of the map along with the walls of the river I was thinking that there might be problems processing and rendering all this extra real estate.

But if the terrain appearance won't impact performance I should be alright.

Basically, on a 1024 scale 2 sized map, I raised one half of the terrain (highland) and lowered the other half (ocean) as much as the editor would allow.  I then cut a river system into the highland that empties out into the ocean.  However, I began to wonder if this kind of extreme terrain would cause problems down the road. 

So before I continues... Will I run into memory limitations or any other kind of problems?  Can the BF2142 engine handle this?