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I like the first a lot better than the second.
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This is a world a friend created, which I'm spiffifying the map for. It's very much a work in progress, both on the map-making and world building I think, so it won't be finished soon but comments are welcome.
Here it is in two different water styles. I've been putzing around all day in Photoshop trying to get an ocean and like and so far I'm not happy with any of them, but I might end up going with the first water style for the time being.
Last edited by sarandosil; 07-18-2009 at 01:36 PM.
I like the first a lot better than the second.
I wonder what that's likeOriginally Posted by sarandosil
I like the first one, too -- more character!
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Add me in as another for the first. The second one looks like distort-glass while the first one looks like it was based off of some difference clouds that got hit with lighting effects (how I do my mtns).
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The magic is gone, eh? I used to look at images and go "WOW that is great looking!" and these days it's more like "hmm, looks like a cloud render with a chrome filter there."
At any rate, you're mostly right :p I did do that but I'm not sure it's actually visible; the texture comes mostly from a texture overlay in the layer styles (and the waves beyond the reef are a texture overlay of one of the patterns you had in one of your tutorials).
Last edited by sarandosil; 07-14-2009 at 09:02 PM.
There's still plenty of magic...I had never thought of using that technique for waves and I've been struggling with waves for years. Thanks, man, for keepin the magic alive...in me at leastOh and have some rep to boot
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
You have Photoshop in your software list so I'm assuming you're talking about having a stretch of time to devote to this. What that's like is like being unemployed, heh.I wonder what that's like
I like the first one, too -- more character!
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If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
I'll throw my hat in the ring with the others, the first version is much more appealing. It looks like it could be various underwater reefs, continental shelves, etc.
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Yeah, as with the others. I think the second looks like bumpy glass, which is not quite the right effect for seas.
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