Hi Everyone! :D

Tomorrow's Live Mapping session sees Ralf going all 'Tolkien' on us and taking a look at the "Classic Fantasy" vector overland style from the Annual Vol 9. He will also be discussing using and customizing hatch styles.

You can watch right here on the forum:

Or you can come and join in with the live show on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57aVGl7LUPw

Hope to see you there!

It's a little small for me to see all the details, but it looks like a lovely map :)

The level of detail you can have on a map is always dictated by its finished size, and for the same piece of land it varies depending on how large you export it or how closely you zoom into it when you are using it. If the size of the map you use is limited by the VTT in a way that means the map looks too crowded even at maximum zoom, I recommend splitting the detailed map into a series of regional maps in a two-tiered system and drawing a more simplified version to show the full continent with the country names and so on. Think of how little detail a map of the world really contains compared to a map of the county, state or region where you live.

Do I keep the non-mossy ones now I've figured out how to do the mossy ones?

A bit of river stuff this time. After all - what would a walk through the forest be without the streams and the stepping stones?

And things that loom under the trees...

No, it's ok. I haven't got lost in the trees. I was doing a lot of background work - like matching the exact level of blur between different symbols so they all look right with each other, colour adjustments, scale adjustments, and so on. Redoing a lot of the varicolour versions again and again until they also looked right with each other and the non-varicolour symbols.

I've also added ferns (which was a whole lot more tricky than you might think) and I've been working on an idea of adding a selection of ruin pieces.

Varicolour tree with a ruin piece:

Ferns:

And as you can see there is also a new dead leaf fill, after Ralf suggested it as being the most common ground cover in woodlands.