Middle Earth DEM Project

[Redrobes]

Ahh right yes I see now.

I have been doing place names. Instead of using VDale to put them in I thought that it would be much better to have a solution which is more independent and allows greater flexibility since VDale has one font which has pros and cons but I think for a fixed printed map the cons outweigh the pros in this case.

So what I have put together is a text based list of place names and index them in by position in miles - hence the request. Also, you can specify the type of name and size. So right now all I have is 10 size levels. The font is rendered with a halo of the background color to it which fades out.

So the end product is another 10K image - thats 3 now for color, lighting and placenames. Putting all 3 into VDale is slowing it up a little now cos thats 300 x 1024 x 1024 images its pushing around which is quite a lot. Still, it prints out just fine.

So here are some images. All we need to do now is add all the names and the coords for them. Not an insignificant task I admit but then nothing is with this project eh ?

I have integrated this into the make system so that if the places text file changes then it reimages all the names and makes all the tiles for them again. That, like the rest of the make system, is just wonderful. God I love GNUMake.