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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 584192" data-attributes="member: 1264">Nice work! One the first, large maps, it's a little hard to see the mountains right. That's because they're shaded as if the light sources is at the bottom an perhaps slightly to the right. They would look MUCH better with the light source coming from the top of the map. Just turn your map around and have a look at the difference...Our eyes and brain assume that &quot;light&quot; means &quot;up&quot;. If you switch that around, it'll try to interpret mountains as valleys and vice versa. (For example, I'm having the hardest time seeing you &quot;Andra Veldra Mountains&quot; as anything but big hole sin the ground. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> If you've ever looked at aerial photographs of the moon or Mars, you'd know how hard it is when the sun comes from the non-intuitive direction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 584192, member: 1264"] Nice work! One the first, large maps, it's a little hard to see the mountains right. That's because they're shaded as if the light sources is at the [i]bottom[/i] an perhaps slightly to the right. They would look MUCH better with the light source coming from the top of the map. Just turn your map around and have a look at the difference... Our eyes and brain assume that "light" means "up". If you switch that around, it'll try to interpret mountains as valleys and vice versa. (For example, I'm having the hardest time seeing you "Andra Veldra Mountains" as anything but big hole sin the ground. ;) If you've ever looked at aerial photographs of the moon or Mars, you'd know how hard it is when the sun comes from the non-intuitive direction. [/QUOTE]

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