Unnamed - Various Styles

[aeronox]

Uhh, no references as such... I just love geography!

What is dead tree form?

[mmmmmpig]

I believe "dead tree form" is a book, but I am just guessing. I really like the fact that you have thought about geomorphology in the context of your land-forms. I would suggest trying to keep that in mind as well when political boundaries are generated.

I think you are dead on about the Hi-res first thing. You may even want to break the map into tiles so you can really res it up. I look forward to seeing this one progress.

[aeronox]

I'll have a whole bunch of more tips as I get around to the civilisation-side of things.

My map is around 10,000 x 10,000 with 200dpi - the biggest I'm daring to go! I had around 20 layers at one point, but it was taking forever to save and apply effects, so once I had the land-base settled, I split the PSD layers into several different files.

[mmmmmpig]

What did the file size end up being? Just curious, it had to be a bear. Any chance you would be willing to chat about what your layers were?

[aeronox]

up to 350 MB at one stage. now the individual files are around 100MB.

layers included:

Ink Outline
Land
Water
Mountain Relief
Altitude
Rivers/Lakes
Ice
Forest
Desert
Marsh
Wind Currents
Ocean Currents
Water Temperature
Rainfall
Air Temperature
Tectonics
Volcanoes
Seismic Activity
Continental Shelf

Future layers:
Cave systems
Rock types
Artesian basins

[mmmmmpig]

Thanks Much!

[aeronox]

Hmm I'm still getting to know this site. I probably should have posted this WIP in the Regional Mapping section. Please move

[nikonguy]

Off topic a bit but to clarify: Dead tree... it's a phrase we use in journalism all the time. And as mentioned it is usually in reference to books and newspapers...anything printed on paper. I'm a new media journalist (online/multimedia) so whenever my work goes into print in a traditional manner, I tell my associates that it will be appearing in a dead tree publication.

[aeronox]

Please change this topic title to "Unnamed - Various Styles" thx

Took about 4 hours to colour the map (attached)... This will be the 'pretty' version of my map while the other greyscale one is for quick reference.

When it comes time to put a civilisation overlay on it, I may have to reduce the contrast of all the natural layers.

I have made this at twice the resolution of the attached image - which itself is half the resolution of my master copy (which is also the size of the greyscale one).