There's something prowling around at the stones, so better not go out today.

I've been a bit busy doing DD4 things, but I'm going to take a few breaks this week/next week to map Elkton for the competition.

The map notes for Alarius are that it is a continent of high fantasy and magic. I'll have to see what I can do to capture that kind of atmosphere. Elkton is one of the most northerly settlements, so there are bound to be a few legends from the cold dark north.

I've done quite a bit more work on the ridges, and also the overall colour scheme.

And there are varicolour versions as well, with special colours in the custom palette to match the style fills.

Smaller ridges and mountains to come, along with other things as I think of them.

I think I may have a scale issue here. Because I've never seen any of these trees for real I can only go on what Google says is the height range for each one, which is altogether rather vague. So here are a few I'm not sure about next to each other. Please feel free to comment.

Are the Joshua trees too big? Are the gum trees too small? Are the saguaro too big or small?

It's already booked for March 2023, Jeff ;)

In this week's Live Mapping, and inspired by last week's Birdseye Continental style, Ralf will be tackling another texture-based style with Satellite Overland from Cosmographer 3.

Come along and join in the chat on Youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTNHKgjQ6g

Or watch it on the forum here*

*This thread isn't monitored during the show, but is a place where you can continue the discussion afterwards if you want.

Do you think this is enough craters?

I still have a few more things on the list. These are: mesas, cliffs, ravines, and ripples. A ripple is a more slender ridge that has no side spurs - a kind of rock topped hill.

Which of these would you prefer to see done first, given that the clock is ticking.

Or maybe something else is more important to you than these geographical features?

Hi Everyone :)

I've been playing with the Climate map feature of FT3 during my coffee breaks, and though I'm probably not the first to think of using it as a false colouring system I wanted to show you that you can get some interesting results.

Why should I hate you?

They look good :)

I have to be very careful not to use AI generated art in my work. There are too many foggy areas around copyright. Everything I make for Profantasy has to be squeaky clean, for obvious reasons.

Here's another try :)

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