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    Wip Arlion: A Test

    I spent a few hours last night going through some of the tutorials and I came to this one. It seemed easy enough for even my procedurally challenged brain to follow and after an hour or so I came up with this. I have to admit that continent scaled maps are not my favorite but I think I'll stick to this one to see where it goes.

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    Ok got some more done on this. Following Ravells advice I bumped the mountains again Let me know if that's better (looks better to me). Also I changed the ground texture. The original one was ok but was a little too large. Lastly I added some forests sprinkled around. I could use some feedback as to whether or not they look ok. Thanks

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    Better, but lot's of artifacts. Perhaps a bit of blur followed by some smudge with a soft brush..
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    Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
    Better, but lot's of artifacts. Perhaps a bit of blur followed by some smudge with a soft brush..
    Following your suggestion I blurred both the mountains and the high ground layer. I'm finding it difficult to get rid of all the artifacts. If I smudge/blur TOO much it destroys the shapes of the mountains. I also went through and fixed some of the rivers so that they make sense
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    Try adding a little monochromatic noise to the mountain areas after you blur them. I'm not sure where those blocky artifacts came from - was it a scaling operation in GIMP?

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    Bump mapping using a gradient created using the blend tool can sometimes create those artifacts. Usually I apply a Gaussian blur before bump mapping the texture in question, avoids it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by waldronate View Post
    Try adding a little monochromatic noise to the mountain areas after you blur them. I'm not sure where those blocky artifacts came from - was it a scaling operation in GIMP?
    I'm not sure how the artifacts were created I'm assuming during the bump mapping process. I'll try your suggestion
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    Following waldronates' suggestion I added a noise layer to the mountains. It helped but made the tops of the mountains lose some definition. If I try to bump map them again I get more artifacts so all in all I think I'll take them they way they are. I started to dot the cities also.

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    Here it is in a finished state (I think) I have never had need of a purely original continent before so this was a learning experience for me. All the names were randomly generated with the kingdom names being made up by me.
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