Enjoy the tablet!
Just learned from a terrible mistake... Before you edge trace, save the layer to make coloring of the land and sea easier.
I'm going to go back and redo the clouds and threshold. Otherwise I'll be coloring for days.
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Before you do anything globally to a layer, make a copy of that layer. only delete after you are satisfied.
I have deleted waaaay too many things that I shouldn't have in my days.
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Yup, I know the rule very well. Unfortunately I didn't think far enough ahead; however, I had a serious save on what I thought was an error. It turned out that my selecting was leaking through an area that I had modified and didn't go back and seal up. I found the leak, sealed it and was able to move forward and finish up the layers of colors.
Up next this is essentially a flat of the land and water. Flatting in coloring lingo is applying a solid color to each entity that you will be working with later to make it easier to select and mask of. As I move forward I'll be flatting various terrain types and such and these separate layers will make modifications easier and faster later.
At this point I'm going to stop for the night and post up the horrendously colored map. To quote a great movie: "Watch your eyes!" "Too late"
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I like the level of detail you're putting into your posts. Keep it up; I'm anticipating learning a lot!
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
what a wonderful horrendously colored map.
I am interested to see this progress.
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There is a free tool that can gen up this sort of stuff really quickly. It also has a similarly garish color scheme !
http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/vi...nstant_islands
You could clip bits of these islands in. There's zillions to choose from. It also dumps out a rough height field for them too if thats interesting to you.
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