Community Atlas - Nibirum (Mercator)
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This is what I have so far for a Mercator Hemispheric map of Nibirum. (I am using the AE Hemispheres projection of the FT file)
I have one question - why isn't the colour of the ship, compass and monster symbols coming over.
The brown areas on the map represent a contour level from Shessar's original map, but it will be replaced later with mountain symbols where they are on the various continental maps.
I have one question - why isn't the colour of the ship, compass and monster symbols coming over.
The brown areas on the map represent a contour level from Shessar's original map, but it will be replaced later with mountain symbols where they are on the various continental maps.
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Hopefully, either moving the sheet down the list, if it's there, or adding it if it isn't, putting in the correct order, and then placing the symbols again, should solve the problem. I had a bit of a battle with this myself once, when using the Mercator symbols in a non-Mercator template map, as you may guess!
Looking good so far apart from that though!
While Artemisia looks OK close-up, it seems very cluttered for use on the world map in this style, I think. It might be worth taking another look at the PDF mapping tutorial for the Mercator Annual, or just the World of Dyra CC3+ map, to see what I mean. Symbol overlap works best if it's almost nonexistent in the Mercator style, for instance, and symbols generally can be pretty sparsely applied overall, away from the "better known" areas (to whoever's mapping it, that is!). River lines might be better sticking to the black, slightly sketchy, lines of the Mercator style as well, rather than the more usual smooth blue ones here.
Simple and fairly basic seems to be the key in Mercator.
As Wyvern points out, the Mercator style is quite vulnerable to this, but this is a problem I see with many other maps posted to the forum as well, people want too much detail when zoomed in, which negatively affects the "full view" of the map. It also causes the symbols to be too small to have a value on the full view.
The light green area of Kumarikandam on this map is a desert.
What are the letters in the ocean?
Some of the sea-name labels seem to be in blue and slightly angled (up from lower left to top right) - Doriant and Frigid Oceans - while the others are level and in black. Personally, I'd be inclined to go for "level and blue" in all cases, but standardising on one or the other would work better, I think.
Otherwise excellent!
My only note is for Kumarikandam. The light green area on the top left and the yellowish area below it should swap colors since the top terrain is desert and the bottom one is a mix of open grasslands and forests.