Is it possible to build a real world map in Roblox?

Saw someone recreate whole cities with real terrain and it got me wondering how. Are people importing height map data somehow, or is all of that placed by hand? Studio is my only tool so far.
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manishgaming Oct 22, 2026
meera_respawn
yes but you have to scale it down a lot. the terrain editor can import a heightmap, so you can grab elevation data for a real area, turn it into a greyscale image and it builds the hills and valleys for you. there's a colormap import too for grass vs rock vs sand. things that bite you: - turn on StreamingEnabled or big maps will crush phones - physics gets jittery when you're very far from the origin, so keep the map around the middle instead of making it huge - buildings and roads are still placed by hand or with plugins a town or a small island works fine. a whole country at 1:1 isn't happening.