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« Reply #1605 on: December 01, 2013, 06:07:06 pm »

Okay, that looks great. Love your latest "sculpted"-looking stuff, Shook.
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« Reply #1606 on: December 02, 2013, 05:13:40 pm »

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And where goes the locust knight shall soon follow his partner Alamura, the mistress of the storm. And she shall set the skies aflame with her magics and cut down all who challenge her dominion over the heavens above.
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« Reply #1607 on: December 05, 2013, 06:49:09 am »

I mad a map for my next d&d campaign.
it is the 1st real image i have put much work into and the only part i did not do in gimp is the compass rose.
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the coastlines could be better but i am pretty pleased all in all. also sorry for the big picture
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« Reply #1608 on: December 05, 2013, 09:52:41 am »

I mad a map for my next d&d campaign.
it is the 1st real image i have put much work into and the only part i did not do in gimp is the compass rose.
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the coastlines could be better but i am pretty pleased all in all. also sorry for the big picture
The general locations and looks of all the land and islands really look like the real world. Especially where Europe and northern Africa would lie.
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« Reply #1609 on: December 05, 2013, 10:10:53 am »

I mad a map for my next d&d campaign.
it is the 1st real image i have put much work into and the only part i did not do in gimp is the compass rose.
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the coastlines could be better but i am pretty pleased all in all. also sorry for the big picture

Looks pretty good, all in all, and attached flavors like the compass rose and the scale work as a great boon (helping a lot while reading the map) but there's still some room for improvement.
Recently I read this piece and has a lot of advice for young fantasy and/or tabletop mapmakers.

Those frontiers seem to be a bit arbitrary, are all those nation-states? Borders between the Khazard and the Qin-Shing look great, as they're based on rivers, mountains and defensible positions, and the Keiringurdy South Utini frontiers look plausible as well. From a simple glance, there's no way to determinate climate or things like that, there are no inner lakes at sight, nor valleys or clustered mountains. Unless I'm overlooking something crucial in your campaign world, which could be shaped like an all-desert wasteland (which would tell why most cities are laid upon rivers and coastlines). I'm just rambling these last lines, by the way.

Some cities also look a bit far apart from themselves. That could work on Amitria, but maybe Etrona should be a bit denser on it's demography, judging by how many nations are sharing the same place. European countries, for their most part, have a lot of cities scattered in small areas.


Hope your game turns out to be great.
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« Reply #1610 on: December 05, 2013, 03:59:52 pm »

thanks for all the feedback. im working on boarders because im not that happy with them, it's supposed to be more of a political map so i didn't include many geographical features.
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« Reply #1611 on: December 05, 2013, 05:39:30 pm »

That is spiffy as hell.

Question! Is Photoshop an option for you? There's a few shiny features you could make use of to put some polish on the landscape (mostly elevation, if you use the Saderan strategy, which I'm obliged to endorse at every mapmaking event). I'd recommend CS2, since it's freely available now.
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« Reply #1612 on: December 06, 2013, 03:56:50 am »

I'd recommend CS2, since it's freely available now.

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« Reply #1613 on: December 06, 2013, 11:09:42 am »

I'd recommend CS2, since it's freely available now.

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Adobe stopped supporting CS2 and provided serial numbers that will always work for those products (without activation). That was in jan, though, so no telling what it's like now.
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« Reply #1614 on: December 06, 2013, 11:19:34 am »

This should work, once you create an account.

If you prefer not to create an account, there are some other places that are hosting the files that you can find pretty easily through google, which have been up for a while, but I'll not link them in case the alternate hosting is not approved by Adobe. That could still be piracy, I suppose.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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« Reply #1615 on: December 07, 2013, 09:30:41 am »

Spoiler: A Map! (click to show/hide)
Not the most fantastic of things, but considering it was made in 10 minutes by someone with no experience in image editing software beyond MS paint (me) on a free program (Paint.NET) I'm pretty proud of it. Next step - figure out how to blend the colours smoothly.

Spoiler: EDIT: Map 2! (click to show/hide)
Applied frosted glass scatter and then sharpened it up a bit. Can't decide if this looks better or not.
« Last Edit: December 07, 2013, 09:40:02 am by sjm9876 »
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« Reply #1616 on: December 07, 2013, 12:45:30 pm »

The first looks much better, imo. The second looks like I took my glasses off and then looked at it again.
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« Reply #1617 on: December 07, 2013, 12:51:10 pm »

map 2 just looks like it was saved as a low quality jpeg of the first, tbh. The first is much better.
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« Reply #1618 on: December 07, 2013, 01:03:42 pm »

cheers. Following on form the previous map, another wild map appears!
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used far rougher noise and a separate layer for sea. Not sure either was the best idea.
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My dreams are not unlike yours - they long for the safety, and break like a glass chandelier.
But there's laughter and oh there is love, just past the edge of our fears.
And there's chaos when push comes to shove, but it's music to my ears.

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« Reply #1619 on: December 07, 2013, 01:09:55 pm »

I'd see if you could ramp the contrast and saturation way down on both the land and sea. Might help a bit.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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