It was his tutorial that clued me in to how to get the effect I was going for. That and downloading the GIMP. The process I'm using is a bit different from his and there are some effects I'm still trying to figure out. I'll post the details once they're nailed down.Originally Posted by pyrandon
Campaign Map, Step 2
Added color for the land and sea. I was going to use a couple of different colors for the sea, but decided that didn't look very good.
Hey Helium!
Nice effect there! Please share on your technique. I couldn't duplicate his results in GIMP because it doesn't seem to have that "bitmap as halftone" function....but I did come up with my own technique I have been meaning to write up as a tutorial that involves the newsprint filter and displacement maps...
Actually, it's a combination of gimp and inkscape. Essentially, I use gimp to make the coastline, put down an airbrushed layer of black along the coastline in a lower layer, then fill in below that with the ocean pattern. Then I save it as a .png and import it into Inkscape. Once that's done I do a bitmap trace and then simplify the whole thing. That's pretty much it.
Also, I decided to re-jigger the map a bit because I needed to use thinner line strokes for the land features, which looked really wonky with the thick lines used for the coast and sea.
Made changes to the pattern that makes up the sea feature, added the Gam Jo River and started penning in the Tallwall Mountains.
Last edited by helium3; 10-09-2007 at 01:36 PM.
Added in the rest of the Tallwall mountains. My next task is to figure out how to shade them and fill them with color in a way that matches the style of the rest of the map.
I also need to work on that lake, since it doesn't match the ocean for some reason.
I would keep the lake like the river, concentric lines rather than horizontal lines.
-Rob A>
I'll try that and see how it turns out.
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