Deleted some rivers so there would be less to name. Added cities, working on roads....might get this done before deadline...
-Rob A>
Upped the font to 9 point and got the blending better.
I'm never going to get all these rivers labeled.... thinking I need to move on to cities, roads, countries, etc or I will not finish!
-Rob A>
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Deleted some rivers so there would be less to name. Added cities, working on roads....might get this done before deadline...
-Rob A>
Last edited by RobA; 04-27-2010 at 04:25 PM.
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It's beautiful Rob! Maybe just a tad of blur on the speckly landscape might work? Unless you're going for a speckly landscape! (which you probably are!)
It's very odd, seeing that yet knowing I didn't make it myself.
If you want to make it even more uncanny you could switch the fonts - Myriad Pro for physical and hydrographical features and Minion Pro for political features.
-Rob
Looking great so far - particularly that Lake in the SE
The roads seem a bit heavy with pure black - perhaps one them down a little? However they are nice and clear.
I'm going to call this complete.
I leveled up the roads so they weren't solid black, put a half px blur on the colouring to make it less dithered, bit of dodge and burn on the mountains, and added graticules.
### Latest WIP ###
final.jpg
Here is the alternate map, as required for the rules with a 10x10 grid overlay.
final_square_grid.jpg
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That's just fantastic.
I like the color scheme of Your map - It looks so pretty, and so natural (rivers are perfectly setting in the rest of terrain). Great plus from me for playing with my favorite details - city's and connections beetween them.
I keep my fingers crossed for You.