Sure. They're yours. Happy Mapping. Keep scale in mind. Alarius is a pretty large continent, so the size of your total area there is about the size of Mexico
Quenten's and Lorelei's requests are also good. I've been a bit distracted lately, but I noticed you had already started, so I knew the maps would be right around the corner anyway.
Quenten has expressed an interest in my adding VoudCaliff to the Community Atlas. If the general consensus is for me to add it, and if I can find the right spot for it, then I will add my current city project map to the Community Atlas.
If you would like me to do this, please let me know on the WIP thread.
Okay, I've narrowed down about 4 places VoudCaliff could go on the Atlas. I'm basing my decision on the terrain around the area, and the cut of the coastline, that closely resembles what I've already done. Now I just need to narrow it down farther...
The location is technically fine, but linking a tiny thing like a city from a huge thing like a continent makes the link really tiny and difficult to spot. In addition, there is no city marker at the map in that position, and it looks really weird just linking in a city map from a random "blank" spot on the map. So, could I convince you to make a regional map for the local area too, for example the region you have already highlighted with a red square.
That's great. Pick the size of the map as you please, the red rectangle was only a suggestion (don't recommend going any smaller than that though). And, as I tell everyone when making regional maps from a continental one, watch the scale. Even that small red rectangle is still the size of the state of Massachusetts. A small state, but look at a detail map of it, and it is packed with settlements and other areas of interest (Population destiny is probably quite a bit lower on Malajuri though)
That's a perfect place!! I intended this end of the island to be wild and uncivilized like the village i had done in my Chakri Lupo Regional map. I'm really looking forward to it! Great work on your city, Storm....I'm so envious of you and Quenten and others who've managed the feat of putting together a cohesive city. I think my ADD gets the best of me when i start working on one. That's why i bribe others to do them for me...wink wink, Quenten
And....congratulations on your first contribution to The Community Atlas! Hopefully this is the first of many!
Talking of bribes, what about thinking of doing a building in the developing Holy Head district of Torstan - eg St Trinian's (about to be renamed St Cei's Basilica Sshool)?
I'll try to get to something on the map in the next few months....Spring is finally showing her pretty face and i'm out and about trying to shake off this season's SAD. Vit D tabs just weren't cutting it. Now the sun is shining and it's finally warm enough (55-60 degrees) where i can get out without being bundled up like an Inuit. I don't do much mapping this time of year with most of my spare indoors time working on my long running homebrew campaign and the maps associated with it (most of which i often can't share). I promise to try my best to make that project my next Atlas contribution
I will work something for that region then... it may be a bit bigger than that little red window, and slightly more civilized, though. I will keep it mostly unsettled... just a few settlements here and there.
Oh, and Lorelei, I can promise you at least one other map... since the crypt dungeon I'm currently working on, is part of the graveyard in Voud Califf. So I will be adding that dungeon as well.
Remy, it appears that someone has already mapped those two islands. It's part of someone else's regional map. So perhaps you should take my name off of those.
okay, just so there is no more confusion, this is the area I asked for in May. I will get started on it, just as soon as I finish the dungeon map I'm already working on.
Exported a 1.6 GigaPixel image from Torstan and set it up as a zoomable image.
I love these super-high resolution zoomable versions, they are just so time-consuming to produce.
How fluent your experience with these zoomable images is heavily depends on both your own internet connection speed, and the distance from my server. These zoomable images are so huge that the only way they can work is by sending you just the right pieces depending on your zoom level and what part of the map you are looking at, so when you change the view in any way, it needs to be sending you new pieces, and how fast you get these really impact the experience here, you may need to have some patience, for some of you, image data is being sent all the way from the opposite side of the earth. Your computer performance will impact this a bit too.
For this to work, the image isn't stored as one large image, but rather a bunch of images in different sizes (for the different resolutions), and each of these images is split into a grid of tiles, so that the user can be served only the required files. The source image generated by CC3+ for this export was over 8GB in size. (The files inside that .zif is stored as .jpg though, so that saves a lot of space, making it much smaller).
To use the .zif file, you'll need to upload it to a webserver along with the zoomify javascript file and a basic html file to tie things together, you cannot easily view it locally on your own computer.
Don't despair, most people not into web development would struggle with that. The issue here is that this system simply isn't designed for local viewing in mind, it is designed to be used via a server.
I am not even sure if the free version of Zoomify supports the .zif files on my server. I know the free converter can't make these at least, but I am unsure if it can use existing ones. I am using the paid Pro version on my server.
Note that for anyone who haven't noticed it, on the toolbar right below the zoomable image, where the zoom slider is, there is also a full screen button, which is a very nice way to enjoy these maps.
One day when I have the time, I'll also try updating zoomify to the newest version which was released not too long ago, it is supposed to be a bit better for phone/tablet support, the version currently in use works best on a regular computer.
Edit: I took a chance on doing a simple in place-upgrade, just updated the script from Zoomify 4 to Zoomify 5 without changing any parameters and configuration. Let me know if I broke anything, but initial testing seems things work as before.
I've also but out a zoomable image of Kentoria, meaning all the continent maps have them.
Discounting my approximate number of posts and views, Dragons foot mention of the Atlas views is now over 1100. That was quick. It was 1045 just about a month ago.
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Keep scale in mind. Alarius is a pretty large continent, so the size of your total area there is about the size of Mexico
Quenten's and Lorelei's requests are also good. I've been a bit distracted lately, but I noticed you had already started, so I knew the maps would be right around the corner anyway.
If you would like me to do this, please let me know on the WIP thread.
So, could I convince you to make a regional map for the local area too, for example the region you have already highlighted with a red square.
And, as I tell everyone when making regional maps from a continental one, watch the scale. Even that small red rectangle is still the size of the state of Massachusetts. A small state, but look at a detail map of it, and it is packed with settlements and other areas of interest (Population destiny is probably quite a bit lower on Malajuri though)
And....congratulations on your first contribution to The Community Atlas! Hopefully this is the first of many!
Oh, and Lorelei, I can promise you at least one other map... since the crypt dungeon I'm currently working on, is part of the graveyard in Voud Califf. So I will be adding that dungeon as well.
Remy, I should also reserve the Mausoleum that's farthest from the graveyard entrance in Voud Califf, as I'm already working on that dungeon.
@JimP: That's great.
I love these super-high resolution zoomable versions, they are just so time-consuming to produce.
How fluent your experience with these zoomable images is heavily depends on both your own internet connection speed, and the distance from my server. These zoomable images are so huge that the only way they can work is by sending you just the right pieces depending on your zoom level and what part of the map you are looking at, so when you change the view in any way, it needs to be sending you new pieces, and how fast you get these really impact the experience here, you may need to have some patience, for some of you, image data is being sent all the way from the opposite side of the earth.
Your computer performance will impact this a bit too.
(But I can now see all my mistakes - horror!)
For this to work, the image isn't stored as one large image, but rather a bunch of images in different sizes (for the different resolutions), and each of these images is split into a grid of tiles, so that the user can be served only the required files. The source image generated by CC3+ for this export was over 8GB in size. (The files inside that .zif is stored as .jpg though, so that saves a lot of space, making it much smaller).
To use the .zif file, you'll need to upload it to a webserver along with the zoomify javascript file and a basic html file to tie things together, you cannot easily view it locally on your own computer.
I am not even sure if the free version of Zoomify supports the .zif files on my server. I know the free converter can't make these at least, but I am unsure if it can use existing ones. I am using the paid Pro version on my server.
One day when I have the time, I'll also try updating zoomify to the newest version which was released not too long ago, it is supposed to be a bit better for phone/tablet support, the version currently in use works best on a regular computer.
Edit: I took a chance on doing a simple in place-upgrade, just updated the script from Zoomify 4 to Zoomify 5 without changing any parameters and configuration. Let me know if I broke anything, but initial testing seems things work as before.
I've also but out a zoomable image of Kentoria, meaning all the continent maps have them.