Greyhawk: Atlas of the Flanaess

[Redrobes]

I was just sending a PM about that sort of stuff to Anna. We use tiles of 2K max so that we can easily fit it into 2Gb. Although most of us have 4Gb+ we don't want to restrict it to cut out some of the members.

Its a chap called Monks who does the mapping. Hes very particular about things and a ME nut. So he has lots of ref maps and has overlaid them all into one giant map and is working off of that to create it in 3D. I believe its all georeffed so its physically accurate to the globe too. I'm just the dev creating the tools and stuff that might get us there. We have others who are also doing some sterling work too.

I would really strongly advise going to tiles. There comes a point where the machine cant cope with such large images easily. As soon as you go to tiles then the memory footprint drops tremendously. You can even use the graphics card processing. Things get faster and you can take the handbrake off.

BTW. Publius if you need a map in a few weeks thats very large take a peek at L3DT. It has some advantages and some disadvantages over other tools but its very easy and quick to get a large terrain out of it. I really like it but accept that it has some limitations that would have not worked well for MeDem. However it may be fine for what you need. A few weeks is a drop in the ocean for large scale high def mapping tho.

[NeonKnight]

Anna; Your first map I would LOVE to see at a much Higher RES, especially the area of the Duchy of Urnst. I wrote a few mods and did a few maps in CC2 for the Duchy of Unrst back in the early years of Living Greyhawk, and so would loe to see that area.

[Anna]

I split my terrain bitmap in half a while ago because it was becoming too big, only joined it again to make the overlapping areas easer. Now I will split it in half again and continue working on each half.

I’ll run into the problem again when I’m expanding north but I’ll deal with that then, it will not be until 2009 anyway I think, so there will be at least one upgrade in hardware and probably software too before then.

Hopefully the attached map can fulfill your desire for a map of the Duchy of Urnst. Here is a link to my webstorage where you can find highres copies of all my Atlas maps I have done to date:
https://lagring.storegate.se/user/Fi...&Folder=753149

It is thanks to you and others who researched the area before me that I could have made the map the way I did.

Anna

[Anna]

Publius I can understand your frustration with limited resources and all doing a project like that against a deadline. I could never make this project against a deadline, it has taken me well over 10 years to come this far.

The worst part when I started was to work out a procedure to achieve a result I was satisfied with. Now the worst part is to see all new cool tools and techniques available and to stay focused and finish this, before moving on.

People here in Cartographers guild biggest asset are their talent but I think mine is to never give up! I’m sure that everyone here could have made what I’m doing and made it look better if they just had kept on doing it for half as long as I have.
But now I feel like I’m getting somewhere.

Here are some examples of my early work
Anna

[NeonKnight]

I split my terrain bitmap in half a while ago because it was becoming too big, only joined it again to make the overlapping areas easer. Now I will split it in half again and continue working on each half.

I’ll run into the problem again when I’m expanding north but I’ll deal with that then, it will not be until 2009 anyway I think, so there will be at least one upgrade in hardware and probably software too before then.

Hopefully the attached map can fulfill your desire for a map of the Duchy of Urnst. Here is a link to my webstorage where you can find highres copies of all my Atlas maps I have done to date:
https://lagring.storegate.se/user/Fi...&Folder=753149

It is thanks to you and others who researched the area before me that I could have made the map the way I did.

Anna

WOOT! What is really cool, is the the village of Thallin (East of Nesserhead) was the name I made up for the small forestry village for the Year Duchy Module I wrote: Never the Same Thing Twice.

Its nice to see little things I did years ago in others work

[Publius]

What a gorgeous map, amazing work. I have not done any work with 3d as of yet. Just amazing.

[NeonKnight]

Also, I think you have misspelled the name of Castle Seh to Sen (On the Duchy Map, west of the Spurned Vale in the Celadon Forest.

I will see if I have my detailed CC2 map of the Duchy of Urnst kicking around still and post it up for you if you wish.

[NeonKnight]

So here are the two maps, the first shows the locals of the Modules from Year One for the Duchy, and the second is just the map.

As I thought, you have labeled Castle Seh as Castle Sen. Also, uou have placed Thallin further north than I originally placed it. It was within the small forest there, and not on the river, closer to Aldon's Watch, which actually is located on the Nesser River almost directly across from Hammersend.

Also, the Spurned Vale was located outside the Celadon, not within, as the Elves of the Celadon are not very welcoming of Humans and others, and while the County of Unrst runs guerilla warfare with the elves trying to Log the forest, the Duchy is viewed as friends of the Celadon.

Finally, Salt Harbor was located on a small Island off the coast of the Duchy.

I love the map tho, and please don't take me notes above as complaints. They are just the ramblings of a player who has played in the Duchy for almsot 5 years and had a hand in creating it through writing modules and what not.

[Anna]

Wow

This is exactly the kind of input I need, thank you soo much for the maps and corrections!

I’ll update my maps accordingly and post the updates here and on Canonfire. If you have any more maps or other info that you think would help my mapping I’d love to have a copy.

Thanks again!
Anna