My first map - the Kingdom of Silarne
taustinoc
Surveyor
At least, the first one I didn't give up on and start over. This is pretty much by the numbers from Joseph Sweeney's excellent tutorial, plus a little fooling around to include political borders.
It could include quite a bit more detail, but this serves the needs of the moment, with the game currently in the barony of Dail Abhaich.
There's a higher res version here
Having used CorelDraw for many years, CC is . . . a pain in the behind to learn. The "choose a tool, then choose what to use it on" interface is rather like the Reverse Polish Notation of graphic programs, but I have to admit, the only thing CorelDraw does better is be what I'm used to.
It could include quite a bit more detail, but this serves the needs of the moment, with the game currently in the barony of Dail Abhaich.
There's a higher res version here
Having used CorelDraw for many years, CC is . . . a pain in the behind to learn. The "choose a tool, then choose what to use it on" interface is rather like the Reverse Polish Notation of graphic programs, but I have to admit, the only thing CorelDraw does better is be what I'm used to.
Comments
I think the mountains are scaled to small. I think they could be much larger in aspect ration compared to the trees. I think it would also serve to make it less busy on that side of the map.
Those are just my thoughts though.
Good job.
You certainly have a unique and interesting style. Even though its common practice to use different coloured areas in political maps, I would never have thought of doing it by altering the colour of the land fills.
Nice work
I agree with the comment above about the mountains: you've run into the same problem I did, there are so many and they're so small compared to the map that the area resembles a horned toad's back. I haven't found a good solution yet, but the suggestion to use fewer but larger-scaled symbols might be a good one.
What are the dimensions of the map? 1000x800 miles?
Then when I'm mapping the areas next to the mountains, I use more mountain symbols.
Loopysue: The political markings are actually traced objects on the Political Borders Front sheet, with 20% transparency. That way, they can be turned off easily.
Barliman: The scale ended up being 600 x 400 miles. Started off at half that (which was out of the tutorial video), then realized it needed to be twice as big. Fortunately, that's fairly easy to do. The scale bar is correct (although I guess you can't read it on the embedded image).
JimP: I may try that later on, but for now, I'm fairly happy with this.
Thanks for the feedback. One of the most valuable features of CC is the community.
You did better than me though, as it was only about half a year in that I discovered Joseph's amazing video tutorials... Those made life a LOT easier!
Like the "multicoloured nations" look especially. And mountains? Well, they're one of those things you can play around with for ages and still not have them look quite right. Or maybe that's just me