Reworking the mountains, replacing all of the ridges and ripples so they flow together better to my eye.

Here are a few different tweaks. Thoughts?

Version 1

For the snow-capped mountain, I replaced the scorched alpine fill with a tundra fill, and redrew the snow to be tighter around the snowy ridges. Also added an ice fill between the ridges. I should probably add some ripples onto the tundra terrain but should they be snowy or arid?

Version 2

All of the changes in #1, but I drew a hill polygon around the mountain. Not so sure about this one.

Version 3

All of the changes in #1, without the hill in #2, but I lightened the tundra using ADJUST HUE/SATURATION effect (Lightness +50%)

Version 4

Same as #3, but I added the Uneven Ground texture over the mountain.

Before attempting to do my entire Earth-sized world in the new Birdseye Continental style, I wanted to practice on a smaller bit of land, the tried-and-true Republic of Lumadair. I find it helpful to have the exact same FT export used for so many different styles -- I can toggle through JPGs of all of them while the coastlines remain identical, for better comparison.

I won't have time to do more work on it for several more hours (it's the start of my workday here on the Pacific coast), but I figured in the meantime I would seek feedback on my progress so far.

First, for perspective: Lumadair is in an equatorial climate. Very equatorial. Fractal Terrains tells me that the equator runs right through the middle of it. The latitude runs from -10 degrees on the southern side to +10 degrees on the northern side. Here it is circled on a map of my campaign world:

(After doing some terraforming to turn some landlocked great lakes into seas connected to the oceans, I made some adjustments to how it's viewed. I discovered that rotating the longitude perspective by 90 degrees allowed the main landmasses to all appear on the map without wrapping around. And I flipped it because I liked how it looked better that way, so FT will tell you that the top of the map has negative latitude numbers, with positive ones on the bottom half, but since that's not displayed, it's easy enough for me to mentally adjust.)

There are more images of Lumadair in my galleries if you want to see the terrain and symbols in other formats.

Here is Lumadair so far in Birdseye Continental. Haven't drawn most of the forests yet, nor water depths. I want to redo all of the mountain ridges and ripples to make them fit together a little better, and also be slightly less linear, even though they should still more or less be going in the same direction.

Here are the mountains in northeast corner up close. I tried to use varicolor green ridges to show lower mountains covered with trees, but I'm not sure how well that worked. I might experiment with adding a chameleon or drawn hill beneath them to give them more height. The snowy part is for a mountain that is so high that it is perpetually snow-covered. I think it's the third highest on my campaign world? I think the highest is about 30,000 feet and this one is around 25,000 feet. But I think I want to adjust the snow terrain to be a little tighter to the snowcapped ridges. Thoughts?

I do like how the swamp turned out. The main rivers have a default width of 3, but I added more branches with widths of 2 and 1. (This swamp map also shows an experimentation of putting a ridge on a chameleon hill.)

Added the missing pews and lounge furniture to the Fourth Floor:

And now, up another flight.

Fifth Floor

This floor is entirely for guests. Why would a wizard need plenty of guest rooms? Maybe he or she is the party's patron, and they come back periodically to receive instructions for their next adventure. Maybe adventurers periodically visit to have the wizard identify the magic items and artifacts they've found, or to help explain mysterious prophesies or other adventuring clues they've discovered. (Great opportunity for lore dumping!) Maybe the wizard's old adventuring party all decided to retire together in the tower.

There's a hallway closet between the internal stairs and external door. Another WC and bathing chamber. A small guest bedroom on the eastern side. And then two spacious guest suites on the southern side.

The southwest suite has a spacious living room with a double window, along with a separate bedroom with a "king sized" bed. But the other guest suite is for the real VIPs. Not only does it have a fireplace and working sink in the living room, it also has a private balcony with views of the river and the rear of the cherry tree garden.

These suites come are handy when adventurers visiting the wizard don't want to be separated. (Never a good idea to split the party!) The suites are large enough to accommodate the typical-sized party, assuming a few are willing to sleep on the couches or pallets on the floor. And for very large parties, the stone door separating the two suites can be unlocked to create a double-sized suite.

Onwards to the wizard's bedroom and workshop...

Thank you!

I admit that I drew from a lot of different sources. The base is CA186 Creepy Crypts (2022), which I used in preparation for when I get to the basement/dungeon section. The main fills for the walls and floors of the tower itself come from CA149 Beaumaris Castle (2019), and the windows are from that, too. Most of the furniture comes from Dungeon Designer 3, but some are drawn from CA14 Symbol Catalogs (2008), and some of the fireplaces are from Shessar's free supplement. Some of the outside vegetation comes from CA141 Japanese Temple and CA143 Asian Town (both 2018).

Normally when designing something for the Atlas, I try to limit it to just a few styles to minimize the chance that others might be missing chunks of it. This time, I gave myself free rein to create my wizard's "dream home."

Been working on the other floors, but I still have several more floors to do. (And this is the Wizard's Tower that I am calling the "small" tower, in contrast to the other one I started that is more like a Council of Wizards' fortress. This "small" tower will still be at least eight stories above ground (though some of them are smaller and one is really just a bell tower), and at least three underground (though one is just the sewers)).

From the main entrance on the third floor, you can go up or down through the spiral staircase in northern wall. Let's go down to the second floor.

Second Floor

This is primarily the main dining area for the wizard and his or her guests. In addition for seating for 15, the dining hall has two fireplaces, with the smaller one used to heat up kettles of tea and other food. This room also has a sink connected to the water system, a separate pipe that runs through the room (for more water in the floors above), several cabinets for dinnerware sets and table linens, and a statue of a female wizard -- a former owner, perhaps the tower's creator. Outside the room, a long table in the hall is used by the kitchen staff and footmen to assemble the food before bringing it in for guests. Unlike the third floor, where the arrow slits were off of a corridor and the rooms had no external windows, on the second floor the arrow slits also allow for daylight to enter the rooms.

Beside that room in the southwest corner of the tower is a cozy, wedge-shaped room with a balcony overlooking the great stairs a floor below. From here, the wizard's family can lean over a railing to greet guests on the landing. This floor also has a restroom, and a small, gated "back door" with a sign directing visitors to continue up another flight to the main entrance.

First Floor

The first floor is at the same level as the main landing with the extra wide stairs, but for added security, there is no doorway there, nor windows or even arrow slits. This floor has a spacious kitchen with a stove and a marble countertop, along with a dining nook for the tower's staff. There are also two rooms equipped with crystals that magically emit cold energy. The one on the south side is called the Cold Room and the one north of it is called the Ice Room, as it is cold enough to freeze water. (Basically, they're magical versions of a walk-in refrigerator and freezer.) The final room on this floor, other than the WC, is a furnace room with a massive furnace for heating water and a great tub of hot water for doing laundry. The room is hot enough that even on rainy days, wet laundry will dry on clotheslines strung up in this room.

(True story: my family did not have electricity for eight years of my childhood and one of my daily chores was to build a fire in an outdoor fireplace like this one to heat water than ran through it in pipes. We also had not one but two outhouses -- fancy!)

Haven't started on the basement yet, so for now, let's go back upstairs.

Fourth Floor

Reversing direction, we can climb up to the fourth floor, the lowest level to have proper windows instead of arrow slits. This floor has the main lounge for entertaining overnight guests, where folks can socialize, play cards and other games, or enjoy a performance from a traveling bard or a minstrel from the nearby village. This room even has a wet bar! I should put in some chairs and couches, though.

This floor also has a chapel (looks like I forgot to put in pews). It also has a WC with a window to the outside, a room for bathing, and two oddly-shaped guest bedrooms.

Working on the fifth floor now, which will include use of one of the two balconies you can see poking out on the south side.

Here are the FCW files if anyone wants to customize them for their own gameplay, using the same licensing terms as the Atlas (where this will someday find a home).