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Dorset, England, UK
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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • HomeBrew World of Andaar by F.W.Whited Drawn By D.A.McDowell CC3+

    It is basically a good map, though you are missing a scale bar.

    The one thing that may need a bit of tweaking is the placement of trees. What is the map telling us? I get the message that this is either dense jungle and covered all over by trees that are represented by the spaced out single trees, or that there are remarkably even copses of trees, each symbolised by a single tree. Since I don't know the scale I can't be sure which of these may be true.

    If your area is only partly wooded (for example a forest that has been eaten into by agriculture, or which has large clearings of grassland) it may be communicated more effectively by creating clumps of trees as wooded areas.

    Take a look at other maps and the way that other people have shown forest and jungle. If you think a different method might portray your area better, it may be time to reconsider the tree placement.

    Quayuazue
  • CA155 and FT3 Percent Sea?

    This is to do with extreme altitudes and data that isn't a number - Outliers and NANs.

    The instructions on how to ensure your world is free of them are the last 2 paragraphs on page 10 and all of page 11 of the Supplemental Notes.

    With hindsight I maybe should have put this in the main Mapping Guide, but at the time I didn't think these things affected unedited synthetic worlds. Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing!

    argel1200
  • Mike Patterson (Maidhc O Casain)

    I wouldn't say that was mundane!

    You're like me, and lots of other people as well. We got on with life and made stuff along the way in those odd moments of time between all the busy stuff :)

    Thanks for sharing!

    Maidhc O Casain
  • Project Spectrum - Part 2

    There isn't a public list.

    Once I start work in earnest on a new project the list has already been agreed between myself and Profantasy - if there is a need for one.

    The list I have for Spectrum Part 2 was made before I started drawing any of it - a combination of requests and preferences from forum and FB Group members. The problem with publishing it, though, is that doing so is like asking for more suggestions when the list is already full, and has already been balanced and agreed upon with Profantasy.

    So... no list. Sorry!

    If there are lots of requests after Part 2 has been published - that will be the time to make suggestions again ;)

    Raiko[Deleted User]
  • Project Spectrum - Part 2

    If we were all artists nothing would ever get done. We might imagine things...

    Leonardo da Vinci's second flying machine drawing - 1485

    But we can't design the reality and build them like the mathematicians, engineers and scientists can.

    Igor Sikorsky with his working helicopter -1933

    So this modern world we know only exists because we all have different talents - none of which would have been much good without all the others.

    MonsenDaltonSpenceRaiko