I love the change to the old world style. Looking really good so far. I'll be watching this as it develops.
rmfr
I love the change to the old world style. Looking really good so far. I'll be watching this as it develops.
rmfr
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haven't had as much time as i would have liked to work on this lately, but here is what i have at this point. I redid the equator line which i wasn't happy with on my last update. the main thing i've been working on is the names and places of cities and provinces in schataria. Since im making this place up as i go along, im finding that it takes alot of time to come up with the names of places because im considering the history of the region and the type of culture and environment of the location. Some of the names will probably change as i develop more of a history and story for this world.
made a couple different attempts at the style of mountains i wanted to use and ended up with these. what do you guys think?
also added another little art piece under the top view.
critiques welcome!
Our sense of the stability of the earth is an illusion due to the shortness of our lives.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I really dig the hemispheric style.
Can I ask how you set that up? Using that sort of projection would solve some serious headaches I'm having with a world map at the moment.
Thom Ryng
Cruenti Dei Line Editor
Sardarthion Press
"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
It looks like a faked Azimuthal Equidistant projection, or maybe some other azimuthal projection. The polar insets give away the fakeing most clearly if you look really carefully, but it is a clever bit of fakery for a purely decorative map.Can I ask how you set that up? Using that sort of projection would solve some serious headaches I'm having with a world map at the moment.
Thom Ryng
Cruenti Dei Line Editor
Sardarthion Press
"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Yeah i totally did all the lines by eye with the eliptical path tool. it took me around 4 or 5 attempts to get it to where it is. for the vertical lines, I did one half of the hemisphere and then copied and flipped it horizontally. then did half of the horizontal lines and flipped them vertically. for both, once i got the lines in the right place, i stroked the path with a brush and erased all the lines outside of the hemisphere.
I wish i would have known what the lines were called before hand. It would have saved alot of time=) really makes you respect those old cartographers.
Our sense of the stability of the earth is an illusion due to the shortness of our lives.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Well, I found the Wulff net on Wikicommons, but I still had to put together the circular "frames" by hand. The bits for the individual degrees proved a bit tricky, as the actual distance between the ten-degree arcs on Wulff net are not a fixed distance apart. I ended up rotating a series of copied lines between .9 and 1.15 degrees for half a hemisphere and then copying and flipping them.
Whew!
Thom Ryng
Cruenti Dei Line Editor
Sardarthion Press
"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Our sense of the stability of the earth is an illusion due to the shortness of our lives.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thom Ryng
Cruenti Dei Line Editor
Sardarthion Press
"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)