My first mapping project relaunched: Thylis
Hi Folks,
it has been some time I haven`t been here. But recently I discovered my old map project on my HD, spent some time and here I am again
Campaign Cartographer consumes time, but the results so far please me and I`m really happy with the additional drawing stiles in the annuals (keep it up and give us more pls ^^)
I revised the map shape, but I`m currently wondering how to manage the mountains, forests, etc. in order to have a realistic and still fantasy world.
I want to have mountainous regions for dwarfs and dragons, forests for elves, a swamp, a desert, volcanos, farm regions, Kingdom with castles etc. What do you think of the first draft? I just roughly marked the regions without further details (for instance lakes).
I`m planning to write a novel and maybe use this map for other projects too. The contintent should be approx as large as Austrialia is and part of a world with more contintens, but I have to think about this in details later.
What would you suggest? Thanks in advance for your comments
it has been some time I haven`t been here. But recently I discovered my old map project on my HD, spent some time and here I am again
Campaign Cartographer consumes time, but the results so far please me and I`m really happy with the additional drawing stiles in the annuals (keep it up and give us more pls ^^)I revised the map shape, but I`m currently wondering how to manage the mountains, forests, etc. in order to have a realistic and still fantasy world.
I want to have mountainous regions for dwarfs and dragons, forests for elves, a swamp, a desert, volcanos, farm regions, Kingdom with castles etc. What do you think of the first draft? I just roughly marked the regions without further details (for instance lakes).
I`m planning to write a novel and maybe use this map for other projects too. The contintent should be approx as large as Austrialia is and part of a world with more contintens, but I have to think about this in details later.
What would you suggest? Thanks in advance for your comments
Comments
I decided to go for a very basic drawing stile first to try different mountain locatios, vegetation, etc. What do you think?
* Currently the upper area shall be quite barren, but with farmland at the left before the mountainside
* The volcanic area is tropical
* The lower area provides much farmland
I`m really not sure, if the placement of the rivers or the farmland/barren/desert combo in the upper region makes sense.
btw, how can I export the maps at a higher quality? All options I tried so far didn`t work quite well.
I`m also fixing the rivers, because they are also not that realisitic, as they should be.
Thank you very much, this helps me
After some tries I finally found a style which suits my needs: DmRust.
Because this forum here doesn`t support high res pics, I`ll attach a small version, but at least I know how to export high res now
What are your thoughts about the map? Still some work to do and I didn`t get the map borders right so far, but I`ll hopefully figure that out soon.
Wonderful map. Thanks for sharing!
~Dogtag
There will be some changes, but when it`s finished I`ll post a link to a high-res version
Yes, I`ve mixed the two styles, because I prefered the Herwin`s buildings. For the painted look I used the Background_blue_C84B from the expansion of the style (the light blue one) and used the bitmap from the treasure map style as overlay with 35% opacity and blur and bevel effects to get this look.
I further revised the map (rivers, some mountains, more landmass, more details) Due it is still WIP, it`s not High-Res because it wouldn`t be viewed good in this forum