Revamping Crestar, using an Annual style
JimP
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I am going to redraw the southern continent of Crestar, trying various Annual styles.
The resulting maps will resemble Crestar. Hopefully by Spring, 2015, I'll be mostly done with the surface mapping style I settle on, and be doing the detail maps. I want to get away from the 185x234 miles pieces of my current surface maps. My attempts to come up with a quick way to redraw the 185x234 mile pieces as one large map aren't working.
As I get some of the southern hemisphere maps done, I'll post them. So no need for this to be in show and tell yet.
Oh, I'll be using the color overland styles, skipping the B&W styles.
If you want to get the old maps, feel free to do so, but I don't think I have the worldall maps up right now on my site.
Hmmm. Where did this headache come from... :-)
The resulting maps will resemble Crestar. Hopefully by Spring, 2015, I'll be mostly done with the surface mapping style I settle on, and be doing the detail maps. I want to get away from the 185x234 miles pieces of my current surface maps. My attempts to come up with a quick way to redraw the 185x234 mile pieces as one large map aren't working.
As I get some of the southern hemisphere maps done, I'll post them. So no need for this to be in show and tell yet.
Oh, I'll be using the color overland styles, skipping the B&W styles.
If you want to get the old maps, feel free to do so, but I don't think I have the worldall maps up right now on my site.
Hmmm. Where did this headache come from... :-)
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I've been looking at decreasing the size of some countries, and increasing the size of others. Too many 'empty lands' on Crestar. I'll be looking at that as well.
I only have 2 columns out of 70 done, so there really isn't anything to post just yet.
Yes, it wont fold into a hemi-sphere... but the inhabitants don't realize that they aren't on a sphere.
My old maps went down to row 20, I have added 15 more rows to this map.
I'll use this to detail the arctic regions at the North and South poles.
So, this will put a stop of moving my site over... I'll need new detail maps.
edit:
I almost forgot the important bits.
1) I'll be renumbering/relettering the columns and rows to make it easier to figure out what you are looking at.
Columns on each hemisphere map will be labelled 1 through 70 and rows 1 through 35.
2) Basically discarding the detail maps ansd making new ones. I really feel they aren't very good.
3) besides Age13, I'll also be trying Fantasy Wortlds CA28.
JSM
But okay, I'll post some pngs of my work so far.
As I was putting in construction point markers, rows and column changes on a continent, I was thinking I could use this one hemisphere map to show cold and warm currents more easily.
Yes, I said to myself, that nation has fog due to the cold current coming in from the top of the map...
Ooops. South on the southern hempisphere map is at the top, not the bottom of the map. I did this to get my players years ago to realize they weren't on a parallel Earth, but a dfifferent location.
I could rotate the finished map, or redo all of the tundra areas and redo the scenarios I have on the back burner, and leave the map drawing just the way it is.
OR... have the arctic regions in what would nominally be the equator and the pole regions being 2 equators.
I now go quietly back to hitting my head on the virtual anvil as I try to decide how to handle the finished map. Yes, I'm going to finish it.
Then do all the other things. Argh ! Some of the other all things, argh...
The virtual anvil has requested repairs. Ah, the fun of not remembering the map labels and making such mistakes.
some of the narrow areas look closed up, but when I zoon in they are open to the end of the bays.
This is this is the one southern hemisphere continent with some islands. A number of islands are too small to put on this map.
Which one of these three do you suggest I go with ?
I didn't put the mountains in, leaving those for later.
edit: I decided on number 3.
For detail maps I was thinking of using DeRust symbols. What do you all think of that ? Would there be better symbols for the surface detail maps ? They have to be in color.
If there was a map there you wanted a copy of, please let me know and I'll put it on the new site so you can download it. Note that I have even less spare time since I retired and it may take longer to put the file up on my new site.
edit: Oct 16, fixed a typo in the url.
If you want me to post zoomed in maps, just ask.
Yes, I know the jungles should be more wide spread across the continent, but my players and I don't like jungle adventures, so the Jungle Lands area is small.
edit: updated the map with more text.
edit Oct 21: This map has been updated to the newer map below.
edit: Dec 13: Small print... but the map had an error on it. Plains of Death should be Plains of Dareth. I'll check my site as well.
The Northern Hemisphere map is more detailed than the now old one I have posted. I'll upload to here and my site in a day or two.
larger version of the map: 1400x700 pixels corrected Dec 15, 2016. For some reason, I linked to the wrong hemisphere. Fixed.
Oct 21: newest large version is on my web site. 1600 x 800 pixels.
Another area, Dwarf Home, is not marked on this map, but it would be between Land of Strife and Trillolara.
Map updated on Oct 29, 2014. Map updated on Dec 16, 2014. Hills, some volcanoes, and additional city markers added. Forest areas added.
This map is made up of 200 x 200 mile squares. The lighter areas in 'Plains of Dareth' are the Wastes of Taq.
1100 x 1025 pixel map on my web site.
The west side has been used as an invasion route more than once.
The destruction of the Telkha-Nar-An People came about in this way. The ruins locations are where they once lived.
More detailed map of the Island in progress.
Thkh Mountains ?
An explorer had come in and tried to tell the people there the horror he had seen, but they thought he was naming the mountains. So they added it to the map and he left.
The empty lands is the south-west corner of the Southern Continent, Bellshar
1100 x 800 pixel version
No scale yet, and nothing uploaded to my site of this map yet.
Why isn't Traql on this map ? Why the locals don't see that island. It doesn't exist for them.
Added a better map.