reworked Nalo Island

JimP

original

JimP

new version

I tried drop shadow on the symbols... didn't like it and took it off. I have no idea why that look appeared on the coastline.

edit: Better and further along. The edge efffect on the island has disappeared.

edit 2: rivers fractalized, but some don't look like it. I used a depth of 30.

Ralf

That's looking a lot better, Jim. I'm not so fond of the farm symbols in that map though. Have you considered using the "Terrain, Famland" drawing tool and fill style instead?

JimP

I found it. I'll play with it a bit, but I have lots of extra things going on at work this week and maybe next week to.

JimP

Took a few minutes, and here is the map with both.

The farmland terrain looks similar to one of the contour areas on the map. For those new to my maps, each bitmap fill is a 2500 feet altitude change.

( It helps to upload the map...)

Avotas

So if the lost keep is lost .... I just found it. Someone forgot to check the map! /grin

JimP

Oh, I'm not sure why I named it that. It is by itself. The 'lost' bit could be about it was attacked and the garrison was lost.

Same for the Lost Shore, upper left of the island. Of course, the Lost Shore could be due to weather.

Darn it. The ice shouldn't be coming from that direction. It should be coming from the bottom of the map. Again, argh.

JimP

All farm symbol gone, using farnmland.

Added a few more hamlets, put the prevailing winds in correctly, and renamed Lost Shore to Haunted Shore.

I keep forgetting. I use Irfanview to reduce the depth from 256 to 202, smaller png size. And the posted pngs are 75 percent of the size I export from CC3.