Well I managed to find my height bug, it was actually high school math ... if you're my age you tend to forget some of the more basic stuff. These are the results:

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Now this is all great and stuff, just not good enough. What I like to do is use the climate file of L3DT and match the climates with DOS textures and autotexture the entire thing as well. However for that I need more information about the .data file. I don't have the time to figure that out myself right now due to real life, so I hope someone else can figure this out. Meanwhile once Chris allows me I'll opensource this on my github. Well after I reincorperated his original code, I'll do that this evening.