What kind of swirly pattern are you looking for?

From what perspective?

If it is on the walls you would not see it, other than in a perspectives map, and this is top down.

Sorry to hijack your thread just a little bit here, Highland_Piper, but I just need to say to the average user reading this thread that if you have the facility to download fresh installers each time you have to reinstall (which really shouldn't be this often) you should. The installers are regularly updated, so old ones may still have bugs that have since been fixed. I quite often come across issues that have been caused by using old installers.

Thank you - all, again :)

Wyvern - you've had that same experience, eh? It's always a shame, isn't it. The paper is still being tweaked but it is already much as it will end up being. I've tried a new technique this time - tiny wood particles (lines) instead of blobs, like paper used to be before it was made of rags and machine-pulped wood. Thanks for mentioning Spectrum 2 ;)

Jim - That's a really nice city map you did there. I do like the green parchment. I'm going for a similar effect, but instead of having a huge array of many different colours of parchment, I'm doing just the one parchment texture and using a Blend Mode on a single terrain sheet to blend colours with it. The only fills that aren't done that way are the forest and ocean fills. That means I can get away with a comparatively massive seamless paper texture that is 3000 px square, rather than limit the pattern to a more noticeably repeating 1000 px square. I've also used a trick I learned from Simon Rogers last year, and reduced the colours to 64k, so even though it's a png file it's only about a third the size you might imagine.

Thank you, David, Quenten, Dalton, Gary and Joe :)

Interesting reactions from all of you. I have been using several accepted grimdark maps as a muse for inspiration, so I know they are all pretty variable when compared to each other, and that it is more of a story atmosphere than a map thing. So maybe I'm still way off the mark.

I would like to keep those texture colours as they are, though, since they are more grey than coloured already, so lets just see what can be done about the mountains and other symbols yet to be created. A few bright red, green or purple place symbols might just show how grey the rest of the map really is.

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I missed that bit! I must watch it again and see if you're right :)

And thank you :)

Hi Everyone :)

Ralf is doing a Live Mapping session tomorrow (5 November 2020) on the recently published Spectrum Overland Expansion issue of this year's Cartographer's Annual. If you are able to come along and take part in the Live Mapping session please do. You will be more than welcome to make comments and ask questions.

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Or do it Remy's way :)

While its a bit difficult to see with the very busy and quite similar textures you have there, this is Transparency Acne.

Try adding a new sheet between the two sheets these textures are on and see if that stops it. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.

So this is going to be a historic fantasy of sorts - a mixture of actual history/legend and fantasy?

You may have to be a bit patient with me over what goes where, since I have no familiarity with the area at all. I'm also not good with pages and pages of text. Easily lost, you see. Much better with well-timed short bits of info ;)

Found Grand Traverse and Mission Point. There's not really enough room to add the name of the peninsula as well, but that's probably better done by a smaller regional map when Quenten gets going on them.