thinking of changing map styles
JimP
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Hmm... Now that i am employed again, I have little time to work on my maps. So I am hoping to come up with a method to finish the maps for the surface of my game world, with the spare time I have.
Much of my Crestar site has a large number of different surface map styles. Over 1,800 surface maps of 180 miles by 234 miles. I get confused by it. I am kinda sure visitors are bothered by it as well.
So, I am thinking about redoing Crestar's surface maps once again.
Using 2009 Annual Fantasy Worlds, April 2009, to make the continent maps.
Using 2009 Annual Fantasy Realms, February, 2009, to make mid-scale maps. Say nation or regional maps.
What do you think of this ?
Thanks.
Jim
Much of my Crestar site has a large number of different surface map styles. Over 1,800 surface maps of 180 miles by 234 miles. I get confused by it. I am kinda sure visitors are bothered by it as well.
So, I am thinking about redoing Crestar's surface maps once again.
Using 2009 Annual Fantasy Worlds, April 2009, to make the continent maps.
Using 2009 Annual Fantasy Realms, February, 2009, to make mid-scale maps. Say nation or regional maps.
What do you think of this ?
Thanks.
Jim
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The two styles you mention are both very nice, and also very well suited to the scales you list, so I believe you'll end up with a nice result.
Hopefully, I can get the world map down to a much more managable, and easily viewable, size.
I have tried several times to do this. Didn't work for me.
I have been thinking of importing small pngs of my surface maps and using that as a guide. Probably take me several weeks to do. I am about to just give up, I just don't have the time to do it.
New job, I am finally getting used to the effort and hours after being unemployed for over 2 years. I am not necessarily giving up completely, but I may have to wait until I have some leave time to work on it. But that wont be until next year.
You asked nicely Simon. I will try.
Day off today, I got some more dice, and I'll check into my maps. The world all pages extend too tall to show all of each page to do a screendump that shows all of each page. i have been thinking about making smaller web pages and screen dumping those. These will all be temporary and not uploaded to my web site.
I have been using Cosmo surface maps template, the wide rectangle of hexagons, to draw world maps for my sf worlds. My players like Crestar, so I wont be redoing it as a Cosmo surface map.
If anyone is interested in the sf worlds, not much info, I will post the urls to them.
edit:
yeah, the 2 parts of the mountain range don't match in style. Working on that.
March 13, 2010: I can no longer find the test map i posted a link to here, I seem to have deleted it.