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Rhumb Lines. Basically their purpose is to give navigators lines of constant bearing on a Mercator projected map.
And yes that style is looking pretty awesome
The World of Elten
Elten is a fictional world I, and a friend are working on. Here is the starting map I was working on until I came across a question. What are the lines coming off a compass rose, do they mean anything. And I figured I should come back here. As you can see, my style is getting better! I am actually pleased how this is coming along.
Rhumb Lines. Basically their purpose is to give navigators lines of constant bearing on a Mercator projected map.
And yes that style is looking pretty awesome
Excellent start to your map HailAmesyus.
I was actually wondering about the lines as well, so thank you Falconius, for clearing that up. I thought they might just be artistic, to break up endless areas of empty sea on a map, but good to know that they serve a purpose :-)
The rhumb lines started out as serving a purpose - take a look at the "portolan" style maps - but in later centuries, they (d)evolved into just the thing you said: elements to break up endless areas of empty sea.
Last edited by Freodin; 10-03-2014 at 06:32 AM.
With the completion of the Rhurb Lines (Not sure what this says about my continent in old times, but Idc), I am on my way to doing the borders of the Seven Nations, Pyra, Necra, Aria, Vitalia, Aquaris, and Graava with the center of this continent being the UN of my world, Arcana. I will be posting this as soon as I get the mountains and forests effects I like.
Below is before I added the corner lines and lightened the whole thing to give it a more realistic and weathered look. Eventually, I will be removing the background when I finish the secondary map (A city) and a bordered explaination of Elten's 800 Year summary and so forth. I am quite proud of how this is coming.
Last edited by TrueUndeadHero; 10-03-2014 at 07:39 PM.
I like what you've done with the textures, but in my opinion the shape of the continent is a bit... round, I'd say.
Also, as nice as the textures look, they might make the map hard to read once it's finished. Especially in the fold in through the middle part.
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