First try at a map

[poilbrun]

Here's my first try (or rather, first "good enough for me to dare show it to others") at a world map, tell me what you think.

I lowered the quality, the size, and made it into a gif. I don't think EN Worlds would have allowed the bitmap file, which is 52 inches by 52, and 73 MB

 

[Ziggy]

Here's my first try (or rather, first "good enough for me to dare show it to others") at a world map, tell me what you think.

Pretty good, just the right amount of details for a large, overview map. A few comments:

- It's not clear what the black and brown colors represent (on the southern group of islands and soutwest island). Is it some kind of volcanoes ?

- The geology seems pretty solid, although I miss some longer mountain ranges. Also note that rainfall will be much larger on the "windside" of mountain ranges (in most of the northern hemisphere this is on the western side), and thus forests and major rivers are more common on this side of large mountain ranges.

.Ziggy

 

[alsih2o]

Pretty good, just the right amount of details for a large, overview map. A few comments:


- The geology seems pretty solid, although I miss some longer mountain ranges. Also note that rainfall will be much larger on the "windside" of mountain ranges (in most of the northern hemisphere this is on the western side), and thus forests and major rivers are more common on this side of large mountain ranges.

.Ziggy

ack! ignore this! as we all know, valleys are formed in areas where giant snakes crawled in ancient days, mountins are the result of anger over a lost love and seas are caused by the tears fo spurned goddesses! forgte normal geography, this is fantasy!

 

[poilbrun]

First of all, thanks for the comments!

- It's not clear what the black and brown colors represent (on the southern group of islands and soutwest island). Is it some kind of volcanoes ?

The black on the SW is a barren wasteland caused by the 4 volcanoes on the island.
The brown on the S islands is mainly simply rock. The humans and other mortal races know nearly nothing about the islands, being inhabited by dragons. However, from what the sailors have seen from afar, it seems as if no vegetation grows there.
DM Note : the islands are protected by permanent magics to look barren and not suited for human colonization by the dragons. In fact, the weather of the 10 surrounding islands is basically what's needed by the 10 dragon types, the center island being temperate and not suited for any particular type of dragon, since the gods created it as a meeting place for the dragons of the world.

- The geology seems pretty solid, although I miss some longer mountain ranges. Also note that rainfall will be much larger on the "windside" of mountain ranges (in most of the northern hemisphere this is on the western side), and thus forests and major rivers are more common on this side of large mountain ranges.

I did not know that, so I did not think about it!

ack! ignore this! as we all know, valleys are formed in areas where giant snakes crawled in ancient days, mountins are the result of anger over a lost love and seas are caused by the tears fo spurned goddesses! forgte normal geography, this is fantasy!

My thinking about the creations was along those lines, while trying to remain a bit logical (for example, the desert is in the South, so I decided the southern part of the continent was warmer, which means I have no forests below an imaginary horizontal line a bit north of the desert).

 

[Ferret]

Here's my first try (or rather, first "good enough for me to dare show it to others") at a world map, tell me what you think.

I lowered the quality, the size, and made it into a gif. I don't think EN Worlds would have allowed the bitmap file, which is 52 inches by 52, and 73 MB

What did you use? Cos it looks well good

 

[poilbrun]

What did you use? Cos it looks well good

The demo of Fractal Mapper 7.0 from http://www.nbos.com . Seeing how it went, I will probably buy the software. The main drawback of the demo is that you can't save, which means I now have a Bitmap, which I can't modify.

I still need to add region names and the major cities, but I don't know how to do it. I have Photoshop at home, which I'll use to add text (there's a function in Fractal Mapper for text, but I couldn't figure it out, text was always too small to be read) but I don't know how I could add icons to the map to represent the cities. Is it possible to do it? How? Anyone know where I could find such icons?

 

[Ferret]

I'm downloading it now! Thanks!