[Hexmap] Northwestern Britannia 3E (BIG)

[hong]

Been playing around more with Hexmapper, and am embarking on a project to map all of Britannia. Here's the first serving, the northwest quadrant of the continent, all 128x128 hexes of it.

Fascinating facts:
- the original BMP is 30Mb, and the JPG version is still 1.4Mb in size. The PSP version of the file is 7.7Mb in size. (The quarter-sized version here is 450K.)
- the pixel dimensions of a 128x128 hexmap are 3337x3585. At 75dpi, that's nearly one meter square.
- it takes 3 seconds for Paint Shop Pro to recalculate, after adding each text label. This is on a PC with 512Mb RAM, and all of it was used up.
- Hexmapper barfs with a runtime error if you try to create a 256x256 map. How disappointing.

 

[Ruined]

Wow, Hong. That's very cool! Good to see lots of (obvious) time and effort put to good use.

 

[Ravellion]

Ummm... Why did you want me to take a look at this... Look at my location, I'm without gaming group for 9 months and have made my own map with hexmapper anyway... Besides, I haven't even got a PC to save it to (Shared Computer in the Computer lab for me)

Still, I think this much work does deserve a good Bump.

Rav

 

[hong]

Ummm... Why did you want me to take a look at this... Look at my location, I'm without gaming group for 9 months and have made my own map with hexmapper anyway... Besides, I haven't even got a PC to save it to (Shared Computer in the Computer lab for me)

Hmph. So says the guy who beat me with a stick. After that, I don't think I need a reason to drag you into this thread, do I?

Still, I think this much work does deserve a good Bump.

No, no, you don't get it. You wait a couple of days until the thread has disappeared off the radar, and THEN you bump.

Some people!

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Hmph. So says the guy who beat me with a stick. After that, I don't think I need a reason to drag you into this thread, do I?

THE guy? I thought it was more like a dozen guys. Or everyone. And maybe a few women, as well.

 

[hong]

THE guy? I thought it was more like a dozen guys. Or everyone. And maybe a few women, as well.

Well, the guy in the GD thread where I posted a link to this thread, that is.

Anyways, the full-size PNG version (downsampled to 256 colours) is on my Bigpond page, at:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hongooi/brit3e_nw.png

Even with a reduced colour palette, it still weighs in at 1.27Mb!