Tome of Ultimate Mapping...what the heck did I do this time?
LadieStorm
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So, as you may have realized, I FINALLY bought the Tome of Ultimate Mapping. And even though I've already completed some decent maps, I'm going through the tome as if I've never completed a map. So I'm currently working through the Tariga tutorial, and I have to say.... I'm not all that pleased with how things are going. Let me show you why....
As you can see from my map, I'm having a couple of small issues.
#1- The tutorial calls for using a couple of fonts that I don't have... Garamond, and Marraige Script. One of these was supposed to come with the tome... but for some reason I didn't get it. This is a minor issue, but an issue none the less.
#2- If you look at my 'Eastern Peaks' mountain range, you may notice that it looks like I have a series of rocks hugging my northeastern coastline. Those are actually the tops of my mountains. For some reason, my landmass edge is cutting through my mountain range, instead of sitting behind it, like it's supposed to. Setting it to back puts my WHOLE landmass to back. Trying to set my mountains to front just screws up my shadows.... without changing that cut through coast line.
#3- You might also see that blue streak that cuts through my northeastern part of the island. I've tried to get rid of that streak.... without success. Funny thing about that blue streak... it's absent when I zoom in to capture it for the erase tool. It's simply not there. But it reappears as soon as I zoom back out.
So obviously I've screwed up somewhere. I'll be hanged if I can figure out what I did.... or how to fix it. Any ideas?
As you can see from my map, I'm having a couple of small issues.
#1- The tutorial calls for using a couple of fonts that I don't have... Garamond, and Marraige Script. One of these was supposed to come with the tome... but for some reason I didn't get it. This is a minor issue, but an issue none the less.
#2- If you look at my 'Eastern Peaks' mountain range, you may notice that it looks like I have a series of rocks hugging my northeastern coastline. Those are actually the tops of my mountains. For some reason, my landmass edge is cutting through my mountain range, instead of sitting behind it, like it's supposed to. Setting it to back puts my WHOLE landmass to back. Trying to set my mountains to front just screws up my shadows.... without changing that cut through coast line.
#3- You might also see that blue streak that cuts through my northeastern part of the island. I've tried to get rid of that streak.... without success. Funny thing about that blue streak... it's absent when I zoom in to capture it for the erase tool. It's simply not there. But it reappears as soon as I zoom back out.
So obviously I've screwed up somewhere. I'll be hanged if I can figure out what I did.... or how to fix it. Any ideas?
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To get rid of it, I hid every sheet except the one containing that line and then deleted it. I then used a combination of inner and outer glows described by Joe Sweeney in one of his videos to re-limn the coastline. Turned out I liked it better than the default, even without the annoying blue line. You can see an example here: http://forum.profantasy.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=5231&page=1#Item_1
So, don't worry: It's not anything you're doing wrong in this case.
In addition the horizontal blue line is also on that COASTLINE sheet. If you hide all sheets and only leave the COASTLINE sheet visible you will see the effect. It is being caused by nodes that are overlapping. I'm not sure how the coast line was drawn so I can't say what caused the issue exactly. To see the issue hide all sheets except COASTLINE and zoom out, you will see the horizontal line. To see the origin of the problem zoom in to area 121.0,161.0. You might have to redraw it to correct it, or at least go through and find the offending nodes and correct their overlap.
I've attached the file so you can see the areas that are causing you grief.
On a side note... I'm considering going back to the drawing g board on this one. I have a lot of issues on this particular map...one being the shape of the map itself. I'm just not happy with it. Learning about things like continent tal drifts and whatnot... The island itself just doesn't look right to me.
I don't save to the same filename over and over... I save as like this:
dwarfhome01_0001, make some changes, dwarfhiome01_0002, etc. Then save ass dwarfhome01 when I am done and want to upload it to my web site. I do this for 2 reasons, 1) computer crashes, 2) changing map directions. I have decided i didn't like the map and went back to an earlier version. Since I save as rather often, the undo command has rarely gone back far enoiugh, so I don't use it but rarely. This method has saved my maps more than once, but it does require an external USB hard drive to copy my files to.
This is my old color chart for surface maps. It has a template and uses Natalya's bitmap fills. While its okay for small area maps, I found myself bogging down in map making time making an extire planet with this.