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               ado112 · Oct 07, 2013 at 05:24 PM · 
                 
              
 
              EU 4 Map Shader
I wonder is there any kind of shader(maybe script) like in EU4(Europa Universalis 4),the world there must be only a plane but they used a normal map and heightmap and then normal map and heightmap shaped the plane into the terrain as the normal map and heightmap are looking like. It something like this: 
 
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=3d map like in EU4
Sorry for my bad english. :(
 
                 
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              Answer by tanoshimi · Oct 07, 2013 at 06:21 PM
I've never played the game, but based on this image it just looks like it's got hill shading pre-baked into the base texture. You can do this yourself using GDAL and a DEM file, as described in my blog post here: http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/creating-hill-shaded-tile-overlays/