I've actually been experimenting with the Remap Altitudes command on a world I generated for the purpose and I'm pretty happy with how its performing. I generally feel that FT creates too many high altitude areas and to bring these all down using the usual method takes a long time and feels tedious to me. Generally what I'm doing is looking at a landmass, deciding where I want elevation to be, and then creating a series of selections where I use the tool at the 1.1 setting. The first use will remap the altitudes in the selection at a lower altitude. I'll repeat this on the same selection to bring it down to sea level. When I see sea appearing I'll hit the undo to keep everything above sea level. Then I'll move on to another area and do the same. Typically I'll end up doing 3 - 5 in the same area. Once all of that is finished, I'll create another selection that covers all of the former selections and do a global smooth between 3 and 10, depending on what's needed, to get rid of the unnatural looking edges of the selection. In general, I will use a combination of this technique and time-honored lower land clicking to get things where I want them. The two pictures above show the unsculpted version and the working version I have right now, to give yu a sense of the results.

Regarding the coral, you probably could do it using very small brushes but the problem is that at the finest levels of detail the inevitable post-sculpting operations often undue some of your work. You can (and I have) choose not to do those operations, of course. I remember when I first used FT3 I spent a lot of time sculpting small areas and really enjoyed it.

On a side note, I often feel that you only really get a couple of land masses that you really like the look of. I have considered for a while having a kind of composite world made up of continents from different worlds. There's nothing that says everything has to come from the same fractal world. I have yet to experiment with this, however.

Hey folks. I somehow missed this news, and am very sad to hear it. Really supportive guy, and some truly unique approaches on some of his maps that I saw, anyway. I've been mostly away for a little while with the busyness of my job, but happy that folks are remembering him here.

I've enjoyed reading this thread, as I had a job once inspecting sewers for damage with a mechanical dog. Can confirm there was no green water, but y'all beat me to that. Everything's looking good, Sue. You're a great artist.

Hey folks, been pretty sick for the last little while (pretty much since my last post). Threw up so much my landlord had to get a plumber. Starting to feel a little better, and back to work in the morning.

I hope you've all been well and enjoyed whatever you might do this time of year (ie. holidays, etc). Sad I missed the discounts on the new isometric cities and annual, but looking forward to checking them out once I sort out finances.

Take care,

Autumn

I usually use contoursm when I start a new major area in my world, and the last one I used this procedure for successfully was created on July 7, 2022. So whatever happened to alter its performance must have happened sometime since then.