Project for a friends world.
Don Anderson Jr.
Surveyor
My friend whom I've been playing tabletop games with for a decade or more has been running a 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons campaign for us. We are about 3 years in. In appreciation I took his world map and made a Campaign Cartographer 3+ version. Can't recall where he created the original.
His world is just massive. 45 000 by about 4700. He tells me it's only a portion of the world.
Started the process by importing the file and then resizing the world to match the scale bar.
Next was copying all the continents and islands. A bit of a time consuming process, but I wanted to keep the vibe of his map. I didn't keep islands that were like only a pixel. The smallest island I put on the map is still bigger than some of the Hawaiin Islands. Like 62 Kilometers long. You can't see those on this screen capture.
I then did a bunch of biomes and did a few sheet effects to make it look closer to his. Still some more to do in those regards. Need to do some grasslands and water/rivers.
I then seperated the text into 4 groups, continents, countries, islands and seas then cities and mountains. Divided those into separate layers as well as the shadows in seperate layers. In case I wanted to modify stuff, like sheet effects, shadows or colours, as per his thoughts.
I think I am getting pretty close to his original. Add in some differing fields, forests, swamp mountains and water. Then it should be done. With some sheet effect tweaks.
Comments
This is a monumental task, and you should be commended. It's a very nice thing to do. As a bonus, you get to have fun making a map! Good show.
The original has a fascinatingly "windblown", swirling vibe to it overall.
And as someone who often copy-traces by hand/mouse scanned hand-drawn maps into CC3+, the tenacity to make such things a reality is something I can readily appreciate!