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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • Community Atlas competition: Kristol Caverns

    And now I am wondering if a longer bevel would be better.

    I'm also thinking about adding something to that southern end. It looks a bit bland.

    Long bevel, or short bevel - what do you think?

    simianorganismWill MasonAleD
  • [WIP] Overland Mapping

    I really like the floating island in the Wurm Wastes. Nice effects. And the cliff coastline in the bottom map is good.

    I'm not sure about the mountain placement. Ranges don't usually form circular shapes, so they feel a bit unnatural. However, since there's clearly a lot of work involved here You could always say they are 3 supervolcano calderas. Maybe that's what you meant them to be anyway, in which case they are perfect.

    MattyEHjonasgreenfeather
  • Questions about converting into a png file

    @Quenten You're welcome :)

    It does relate to the thread more than you think, because it explains why AA shouldn't be used to export an image when you intend to remove the background in GIMP or PS. Using the colour picker to pick the background is complicated by the many different shades of variation around the edges as Remy pointed out above.

    There is a way around it in GIMP, but it is a crude method and doesn't always work very well. I pick the background white with the selection colour picker, invert the selection, sharpen it, shrink it by 1 or maybe even 2 pixels, invert the selection again and then delete the background along with the fuzzy edge. It is much easier if the fuzzy edge created by AA doesn't exist in the first place.

    [Deleted User]JimPWizardOfFrobozz
  • Community Atlas competition: Kristol Caverns

    Thanks Wyvern! :)

    I might just have gone and spoiled that very woodcut look by introducing surface sheets above each one with an edge fade inner to hide those sharp edges.

    I think that even though I started without any backstory one is evolving in my mind. I'm thinking about why there would be an ice cave so close to the Yellowstone-like area of the Kristol Springs. I guess it would have to be magic, if that is ok?


    BlackYetiAleD
  • Community Atlas competition: Kristol Caverns

    Version 2. Already I have run out of space, quite apart from the problem with the hard edge at the top of each bevel. So it looks like this is more of a sketch than the actual map. But at least I am working out the sheets and effects.


    LoreleiWyvernWeathermanSwedenWizardOfFrobozzMarkOlsenAleD