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  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    Thanks Calibre :)

    The blurriness of the terrain can be adjusted by scaling the terrain. It's set pretty large at the moment because the map itself is huge. That white rectangle is the extent of a default 1000 x 800 map unit map.

    Here I have halved the scale of the terrain fills. (The trees in the cities are placeholder scribbles and not the final trees). The grass is a final fill texture, but the tundra above it is an isometric version of the Birdseye tundra and is likely to be updated before publication.

    The shade of the water is a tricky one. Some people prefer this darker water, and some prefer it much lighter. I started with water that was approximately the same shade as the Birdseye water, but went darker in response to other requests.

    Stretching the mountians on the X axis might make them look rather pixelated. Maybe use mountains from a different style?

    Don Anderson Jr.Royal ScribeScottA
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    LOL! Ok. My answer is only slightly different.

    Whenever you are ready.

    ...

    I should add right away that there is no need to delete a whole contour line because of one mistake. There are editing tools and methods that take a few seconds - even if you've realised you switched contours half way around. But we can talk about that closer to the time when you start mapping again. I just wanted you to know now you don't have to do that to yourself.

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    Thank you :)

    LOL! I'm tempted to keep the road to nowhere now, but yes - it was a test. This whole map, which is about 8x the area you can see in the first shot, is a test site.

    I don't know why the rivers do that. They are there and whole. It might be the way the effects are being read and displayed, though it's only an outer glow to match the inner glow on the land at the coast. It renders ok.

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    Thanks Royal :)

    I don't think I have, Ricko. Displace looks different at different zoom levels sometimes, but it's hard to remember if I changed a sheet effect or not over the several months since then.


    Royal ScribeRyan Thomas
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    Sorry it's been so long!

    I spent a long time getting the mountains and hills just right

    ...and then started on the Structures. These are the default cities.

    And here are some towns and hut villages.


    Don Anderson Jr.Ryan ThomasRoyal ScribeMonsenWeathermanSwedenRickoScottAQuentenMapjunkieWyvernand 1 other.