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Loopysue

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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • How to remove white line on smooth polygon river; Herwin Wielink Style

    CTRL+F

    It toggles the frames on and off. These are to make editing smooth lines easier.

    That's a really nice looking map, apowers :)

    apowersroflo1
  • Pen & wash question

    A real pen and ink wash almost completely ignores the lines. Well, they do when I paint that way. The way ink and wash was explained to me at art school was that the ink lines were the structure and detail, while the wash was an impression of the colours and shadows. So my interpretation of that is the ink is like a slightly scruffy technical drawing, and the ink wash is like a translucent dabby impressionist sketch.

    So naturally - I prefer it that way. Sticking to the lines is for formal paintings that take weeks to complete and include every eyelash.

    LillhansWyvern
  • WIP Kilmead Fork

    It looks blighted enough to me :)

    Is that deliberate blighting, or just something that happened with the underlying grass textures?

    EdE
  • Cyberpunk Apartment Building

    I'm not sure I know what cyberpunk is supposed to look like, but it's a nice tidy map :)

    efenord
  • Commission - World of Calindria

    Well, it looks ok, but I have a pretty major suggestion that might not be very welcome.

    I've never thought it was a good idea to mess with plate tectonics on a fantasy world. We always want to have far too many land masses, not enough open ocean, and way too many mountain ranges all over the place (the area taken up by the Earth's mountain ranges is somewhere around 15% of the land surface, which is far less than you typically get on the average fantasy world). On a fantasy world the resulting mass of plates required to explain an excess of mountain ranges far exceeds a realistic number of plates. The earth itself only has 15 principle plates.

    On top of that problem, a major subduction zone will tend to create thousands of miles of long smoothly curving coastline, like the Peru-Chile trench. You don't have even just one such coastline to be able to set up something like that. So my advice would be to gently persuade the client away from including the PT of his or her world. Everything else will probably look, feel, and work so much better without it.


    [Deleted User]roflo1EdE