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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonsbane" data-source="post: 6665045" data-attributes="member: 6775188">I think for mine it is a matter of doing the tasks in the correct order.Coastlines / fill in the rest of the land - do with the smallest brush, make it look fractal/jaggedColor the land grassland, since it will be the one used most on my mapAdd mountains, make sure to kinda guess where tectonic plates would come together for realismAdd rivers, usually coming from mountains towards coasts, this was done with the subtract tool on smallest brush, then lakes tooAdd forest object, make sure coniferous are near mountains? Sounded correct lolAdd forest textures under forest iconsAdd some other textures for swamps, deserts, etc. Make sure in correct places, ie desert behind a mountain range on one side, or swamp in a area with many riversAdd cities - on this map it was city normal dot, huge city dot with circleAdd text - 9 for city, 11 for capital city of country, 13 for city state, 21 for country nameI save it along the way as well, for example I have a version without towns or text, so I can use it to make other things, perhaps one shaded for factions, another to show monster areas, and so onI found that taking screenshots with it super-zoomed in gave awesome results, although you need to stitch together the larger map in GIMP or Photoshop. The one you download is 1024x768 and can't show anything zoomed in. I made one that is 4k x 3k and it looks great all blown up, ready for microdetails in PS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonsbane, post: 6665045, member: 6775188"] I think for mine it is a matter of doing the tasks in the correct order. Coastlines / fill in the rest of the land - do with the smallest brush, make it look fractal/jagged Color the land grassland, since it will be the one used most on my map Add mountains, make sure to kinda guess where tectonic plates would come together for realism Add rivers, usually coming from mountains towards coasts, this was done with the subtract tool on smallest brush, then lakes too Add forest object, make sure coniferous are near mountains? Sounded correct lol Add forest textures under forest icons Add some other textures for swamps, deserts, etc. Make sure in correct places, ie desert behind a mountain range on one side, or swamp in a area with many rivers Add cities - on this map it was city normal dot, huge city dot with circle Add text - 9 for city, 11 for capital city of country, 13 for city state, 21 for country name I save it along the way as well, for example I have a version without towns or text, so I can use it to make other things, perhaps one shaded for factions, another to show monster areas, and so on I found that taking screenshots with it super-zoomed in gave awesome results, although you need to stitch together the larger map in GIMP or Photoshop. The one you download is 1024x768 and can't show anything zoomed in. I made one that is 4k x 3k and it looks great all blown up, ready for microdetails in PS. [/QUOTE]

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