My First Mapping Project

[FallenImmortal]

It's looking pretty good so far. The jagged edges are a good, realistic touch. Do you know what your scale is? Would this be a fairly small region or something hundreds of kilometres?

[tjbuege]

It's looking pretty good so far. The jagged edges are a good, realistic touch. Do you know what your scale is? Would this be a fairly small region or something hundreds of kilometres?

Thanks! Realistic? I hope so, it's a real world lake. The actual lake (Lake Waikaremoana in New Zealand's N. Island) is about 10 miles from end to end. I was thinking of scaling that up 10x - 15x, so about 100-150 miles from end to end. I don't want my PCs to be able to walk around it in a day.



I've been tossing rough ideas down on "paper" (illustrator), and my thoughts are along these lines:



This is a close up of the lower right portion of the lake (when rotated approximately 45 degrees to the right). I want it to take a day or two for my PCs to get from town to the ruins. So it should be 30-40 miles from Mosport to the River by the mountains.

[tjbuege]

I've been trying to learn some texturing techniques. Looking for an old parchment feel. Here's a sample of what I've come up with so far. This is still very rough. For one thing, the lake will be an outline, with interior offset lines for "waves". That and other content adjustments will come later. I'm just trying to get a feel for what I want the map to look like.



I'm using the technique linked to in this thread.

Your thoughts or suggestions?

-Tim