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Yesterday, 10:11 PM

Gamerprinter started a thread Quick & Dirty Map Tutorial #4: Creating Water Effects with Depth in Tutorials/How-To

Quick & Dirty Map Tutorial #4: Creating water effects with depth As with all Q&D tutorials, no screen captures, nor detailed tool explanations -...

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Yesterday, 10:07 PM

Gamerprinter replied to a thread Quick & Dirty Tutorial: How to deal with ugly repeating tile graphics, hide them in Tutorials/How-To

Good idea! I'll get one of the CLs to change the titles to this and my other Quick & Dirty tutorial. Now I'll post a new one, and leave Xara out...

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3 replies | 65 view(s)
Yesterday, 08:37 PM

Midgardsormr replied to a thread The Aralor Empire and the lands to the north-west in Regional/World Mapping

I actually really like the mountain brushes you made above, although they could definitely use some refinement. I have a feeling that you're pretty...

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Yesterday, 08:07 PM

Midgardsormr replied to a thread Quick & Dirty Tutorial: How to deal with ugly repeating tile graphics, hide them in Tutorials/How-To

I'd say this tutorial is useful in pretty well any graphics editor, so you may wish to omit Xara from the title so people don't bypass it.

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Yesterday, 07:58 PM

Midgardsormr replied to a thread Photoshop Bevel/emboss question in Software Discussion

You can add a texture to the effect. In the sidebar to the left, there should be two subcategories called Contour and Texture. If you click on...

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Yesterday, 07:52 PM

loogie replied to a thread Game Dev, World Building in General Discussion

no it wasn't sim earth, but it was sort of similar.. and around the same time frame i believe... it was specifically for rpg's.. and you had to pay...

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Yesterday, 07:17 PM

Midgardsormr replied to a thread Equator Line - Does it have to define my world climate? in Regional/World Mapping

For a bit of an off-the-wall solution, have you considered sliding your graticule? Just rotate the planet a bit so that what was at the equator is...

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Yesterday, 04:35 PM

Gamerprinter started a thread Quick & Dirty Tutorial: How to deal with ugly repeating tile graphics, hide them in Tutorials/How-To

Quick and Dirty Map Tutorial #2: How to deal with ugly repeating tiled graphics - hide them! No screen shots, nor detailed explanation of tools -...

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3 replies | 65 view(s)
Yesterday, 04:28 PM

loogie replied to a thread The Aralor Empire and the lands to the north-west in Regional/World Mapping

wrist pain? welcome to cartography :) digital and pen/paper, we all suffer from that :P

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Yesterday, 03:18 PM

loogie replied to a thread The future!!!!! in General Discussion

sweeeeeet is it an opensourced api? it looks quite interesting. i've seen plenty of similar things, it's definitely becoming more useful

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Yesterday, 03:15 PM

loogie replied to a thread Equator Line - Does it have to define my world climate? in Regional/World Mapping

Oooh. that just made me think of a region with a permanent mist or something, caused by atmospheric compounds.. believe to be magic, but could be...

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9 replies | 135 view(s)
Yesterday, 03:12 PM

loogie replied to a thread Unnamed Land WIP in Regional/World Mapping

i'd agree, the fores looks great, but it shouldn't skirt the mts, i needs to flow into them.

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Yesterday, 03:09 PM

loogie replied to a thread The Aralor Empire and the lands to the north-west in Regional/World Mapping

to me the brush seems to big for the map size... i'd try even half that size, and i'd make an entire range not just some random bits.. with the mts...

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Yesterday, 02:59 PM

loogie started a thread Game Dev, World Building in General Discussion

Hey guys, So my new project is to make a survival-style 2d rpg, where you explore the wilderness and hunt things... but at the very start i would...

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Yesterday, 01:07 PM

loogie replied to a thread Hello! in Member Introductions

welcome! also.. melvin the artistically challenged DM sounds like a childrens story. you'll find tonnes of tutorials, tonnes of help, and...

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Yesterday, 09:40 AM

loogie replied to a thread What I've been working on... (non map-based) in General Discussion

so. i've kinda changed gears, i happened to test out the spine runtimes for c#, which is a different language than haxe, which is what i was...

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Yesterday, 09:29 AM

loogie replied to a thread Equator Line - Does it have to define my world climate? in Regional/World Mapping

Well, like everything fantasy, no.. you don't... If you're looking for a science behind it, kind of. If you think about it, if your world rotates on...

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05-22-2013, 06:52 PM

Midgardsormr replied to a thread Any other good map styles besides Atlas map style? in General Discussion

Perhaps you'd like to take a look at Rav's...

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05-21-2013, 06:00 PM

ravells replied to a thread May 2013 Entry: Pritior in Current Mapping Challenge

This is just amazing work. Absolutely wonderful.

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05-21-2013, 05:55 PM

ravells replied to a thread May 2013 Entry: An Isolated Valley in Current Mapping Challenge

Simply amazing. Congratulations on a fantastic piece of work. Now all you need is the kickstarter.

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05-19-2013, 02:25 PM

Gamerprinter started a thread Quick & Dirty Tutorial: Creating a Path through Forest in Tutorials/How-To

Someone was asking me about using Xara to create a path through the forest. My problem is that I use an older version of the software, Xara Xtreme...

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05-14-2013, 10:50 PM

Midgardsormr replied to a thread What is in a City!!! in Town/City Mapping

I haven't been able to turn up a list of jobs during the Industrial Revolution, but the general pattern is a decline in cottage industry as many...

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05-13-2013, 03:12 PM

ravells replied to a thread Greetings! in Member Introductions

Welcome to the Guild!

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05-13-2013, 03:01 PM

ravells replied to a thread I see a world through a glass darkly in How Do I ???

Start with a sketch using pencil and paper. Move features around until they are consistent with whatever explanatory text you've made up for them -...

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arsheesh - 05-17-2012 03:27 AM - permalink View Conversation

Happy Birthday Steel General!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh
tilt - 09-29-2011 01:44 PM - permalink View Conversation

Thanks for the vote for Street of Dreams
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Thanks a lot!
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Thank you!
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thanks for the vote and rep
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Thx for wishes, my Général
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Thanks for the Birthday wishes SG!

Cheers,
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Thanks Steel
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Oh man, I missed your birthday?! Well, I guess it's better late than never. Happy B-Day.
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Happy Birthday !!

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Interests:: Movies, TV, Sports, Reading (Fantasy/Sci-Fi), Campaign Setting design, Cartography

Occupation:: Software Engineer (Code Monkey)

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