Interesting, so far. I look forward to seeing more. How did you do what you've got so far?
I wish I could say I was going to "finish something next week".... but I have no more than 2 hours a week to work on mapping
Anyway, good luck.
Interesting, so far. I look forward to seeing more. How did you do what you've got so far?
I wish I could say I was going to "finish something next week".... but I have no more than 2 hours a week to work on mapping
Anyway, good luck.
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Pretty much followed the tutorial on Santhria.com. Steps so far :Originally Posted by Karro
Interesting, so far. I look forward to seeing more. How did you do what you've got so far?
I wish I could say I was going to "finish something next week".... but I have no more than 2 hours a week to work on mapping
Anyway, good luck.
- New image
- Image->Mode->Greyscale
- Grey background(70% or so)
- New layer
- Trace outline in around 70% grey or whatever other way you want to generate a land mass
- Big airbrush around 30% grey (mostly white) making sure to go OUTSIDE the landmass lines a bit
- Select the Landmasses
- Save channel
- New Layer
- the Tutorial said to Airbrush (60% grey) manually the outlines to get the "inner" areas dark around the outline of the shore, but being lazy, I stroked the Selection with the Airbrush several times with a bit of jitter and Brush dynamics turned on.
- Smudge the lines toward the inside of the landmass somewhat randomly to get some color variation.
- Apply a layer mask if the layer with the stroke went outside the lines (into the sea part)
Next up is mountains... Perhaps Saturday night.
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OK.. here is an update.. Not really sure I dig the mountains... but wanna get some opinions before I do more mountains... Might try ISO style mountains in the next day or three on a copy of my xcf file.
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Works in Progress(or abandoned tests)
My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
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I'd be interested to see what that looks like with the black lines exchanged for white. At the moment the black lines are a little too dominant.
Hmmm .... not sure what you mean. Anyway... I played around and made some more painterly looking mountains. Big pain in ass and took way too long a time, but very nice looking I think.
My Finished Maps
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My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
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I don't really like how thickly smooth the lineart seems.
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