Wyvern
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Gobi Desert Map
You can certainly get an effect like that just using the normal DD3 symbols and drawing tools. I did something of the sort for Wyvern Citadel in the Community Atlas in 2021. The Forum topic on that's here, which gives an idea as to how I arrived at the final concept. That's shown on this shot of the ground level of the fortress (which shows the cliff lines the clearest):
There are higher res versions of all the maps in my Gallery, while you can pick up copies of the Atlas FCW files for the drawings here.
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Show me your science fiction maps!
Not sci-fi, since they were all done for the Nibirum Community Atlas, which is all fantasy mapping, but they were done in the general style of planetary-system mapping, so may still be of interest. However, I did a series of maps for said Atlas back in 2018 - Forum thread here, Nibirum Solar System start page here, with a sample map to give you an idea, just for the inner planets:
All these maps are also in my Forum Gallery here.
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Community Atlas - Forlorn archipelago - The Bleakness, 2 villages and 2 keeps
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Live Mapping: Parchment City (CANCELLED)
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Community Atlas: Gruvrå's Mine, Serkbergen, Peredur
Sure, Jim. I looked around in the Atlas, worked out where there were area maps smaller than continental-size, drew up a list of those, and then rolled some dice to find places to fit the total of 52 maps I had in mind. Duplicates were re-rolled, so no area would get more than one new map. There were more such areas than I needed, so not every place ended up being selected. I also removed a few areas that were quite heavily mapped already (or had reserved sites on them), and there were a couple that were too small to be viable for what I needed.
When it comes time to finding somewhere for the maps to go on the chosen area map, I then just look at the selected area map and pick somewhere that looks suitably interesting in it, maybe in a sub-area map if there's something suitable, or if not, I'll draw something myself, though not more than about 30-40 miles per side at most. In this case, I felt I'd been really lucky to have found a nicely small area map in the Serkbergen region which had some unused interesting features right in its centre; if I'd been drawing the area map myself, I couldn't have aimed it much better!




