Thread: Taemandor (Name pending)

Originally Posted by rabek

I showed some friends what I'd done thus far (pictured above) and it was noted that the landmasses kind of end to nowhere... rather than the caps/bands of land you see at the top/bottom of a map of Earth.

There's no reason to think that this is the map of the whole planet! Maybe there's some more land in there that we can't see on this image? And of course not every planet needs to have land or ice covering the poles; after all, for much of our own planet's history it was too warm for polar ice caps, and we may soon be in such a climate again. That said, you do look like you've cut off the ends of this projection.

I highly suggest you jump into the worldbuilding tutorials in the Tutorials section of the board. In particular you're going to want to pay attention to anything about tectonics or climate -- the fact that you've got deserts in the extreme south but not the extreme north suggests that the continents are pretty non-uniformly distributed from north to south. I also suggest the climate maps at scotese.com, since you make particular reference to the breakup of supercontinents. Try the late Cretaceous.

Thanks for the response! I did jump into tutorials, but I think I've messed up rather terribly.

I was using this tutorial: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...t-in-photoshop

At a certain point, it shows this:



What I got at this point is this:



Any idea what I did wrong? Anyone who bothers to look here.

Thanks!

Wooo! My first completed map. I decided to start with just the central isles/continents before doing the entire world. Better to start small, maybe, and I needed that map in particular for something else. Any comments?

Looks nice so far. You said this map is completed though. Aren't you going to add some terrain features like mountains, rivers, etc.? If I were you I would also leave more space around the islands/continents, I think it would look better that way. Now it seems a bit "stuffed". If it's a part of a larger map then it's ok though. I'm telling you about this "space-problem" because it's something I have to work on. I like the colors you used and the bright "glow" around the land (it looks like foam - lots of it, waves breaking on the rocky shores perhaps?). Anyway, like I said, good work so far, keep at it.

Hello rabek

I like the idea of light up the islands in a Dark Sea. I wait to see how you resolve the problem of names and text... is not easy, i think.

And I'm back! Life's been crazy, but I'm going to get more done on this map. I've started over from the basics. I've been using the tutorial here to get the land-masses worked out. So far, I have this:



For the tectonic plates.



With the directions



And finally, the actual landmasses.

It's been a while again. I did this a while ago, but I haven't posted it yet.

I did some research on climate and utilized my tectonics to determine some features like volcanoes and mountains. Here's a color-coded map with those features. This world has a more extreme tilt, so the polar caps are a bit larger... though I maybe made them a bit too large.

Note that this is just a guideline for the final map. It isn't meant to look pretty.