Excellent map! Sounds like you really did your homework for that one. What were your references? Did you research the information in dead tree form or did you find some great resources on the web?
Excellent map! Sounds like you really did your homework for that one. What were your references? Did you research the information in dead tree form or did you find some great resources on the web?
Maps are fun, but photos feed me.
Uhh, no references as such... I just love geography!
What is dead tree form?
I believe "dead tree form" is a book, but I am just guessing. I really like the fact that you have thought about geomorphology in the context of your land-forms. I would suggest trying to keep that in mind as well when political boundaries are generated.
I think you are dead on about the Hi-res first thing. You may even want to break the map into tiles so you can really res it up. I look forward to seeing this one progress.
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I'll have a whole bunch of more tips as I get around to the civilisation-side of things.
My map is around 10,000 x 10,000 with 200dpi - the biggest I'm daring to go! I had around 20 layers at one point, but it was taking forever to save and apply effects, so once I had the land-base settled, I split the PSD layers into several different files.
What did the file size end up being? Just curious, it had to be a bear. Any chance you would be willing to chat about what your layers were?
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up to 350 MB at one stage. now the individual files are around 100MB.
layers included:
Ink Outline
Land
Water
Mountain Relief
Altitude
Rivers/Lakes
Ice
Forest
Desert
Marsh
Wind Currents
Ocean Currents
Water Temperature
Rainfall
Air Temperature
Tectonics
Volcanoes
Seismic Activity
Continental Shelf
Future layers:
Cave systems
Rock types
Artesian basins
Thanks Much!
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