1st Map step by step
Hello,
this is my first try to create the world of my noval. Today I just tried to create the land, that it will look in the same way as I draw it by hand. It nearly worked and I am a little bit proud of me.
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this is my first try to create the world of my noval. Today I just tried to create the land, that it will look in the same way as I draw it by hand. It nearly worked and I am a little bit proud of me.
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Comments
Do we get to see it before or after publication ?
At the moment I am working on a 2nd try, but now I have a problem. This time, I like the land I created much more, but the map is too small. I have only space for the northern part of my continents. Further more I started to far at the right side. Is there a possibility to move the whole landmass to the left side and to copy it into a new map? I also tried to open two windows, one with my actual map and one with a bigger map, but it does not work.
Okay... the real problem is another. I checked the distance from one coast to another and it shows me more than 5000 miles. That is much too large. This distance should only be ca. 248 miles. Can I reduce the size of landmass? O.o
Still, you might want to take a look at some real world outline for continents - you layout is not so dissimilar to Europe/North Africa/Western Asia, so zoom into that on an Earth map to give you a feel how a geographical area might look. Some of your outlines do look a bit blocky and regular on a macro scale.
But overall very good work for the first few steps. Keep 'em coming!
@ Ralf: Thanks for your tipps.