New Campaign World

[NeonKnight]

But then you lose the pretty colours on the map

Ah, I still have the many colored map for myself.

[RobA]

The revised gradient is more akin to hypsometric tinting, while the first provided contour line information.

If the transition elevations are actually important (different rules due to elevation...travel rates, air quality, air clarity/turbulence) to the world, then keep them in so you can clearly identify "this community is > 4000 ft, or you are traveling above 7000 ft" times.

Also - were the rivers auto generated by FT? They seen to run at 45degree angles an awful lot...

-Rob A>

[NeonKnight]

The rivers were auto generated with the INCISE FLOW and then Find River function. I then retraced them with a fractal line to make them less straight. I'll look tonight to eliminate some of the 45 degree ness of them. Tha x for the input.

[tjp123]

Hi Neon,

I want to create a new campaign world for our 4E game, and your mapping project looks like something I've been wanting to do. Your work is excellent and very inspiring!

I started my project with CC3 and created a gigantic 10000x8000 world map with just the continental outlines (basically just green borderless landmasses with VERY intricately drawn coastlines and islands). My goal was to create the continents and then go back and create the individual regional maps as needed. But the continental map proved to be too large and unwieldy. It was difficult to copy portions of the continent over into the smaller regional maps. So, I decided to buy FT and start over. That's where I am now.

Did you use FT for everything so far? If so, what settings did you use when you generated your landmasses? How about the coloration - what settings did you use there? Any other tips for us newbies?

Once again, I really enjoyed your maps!

[NeonKnight]

I used Fractal Terrains for the iniital map, and then zoomed into a smaller area (An Australia sized Island Continent) and then choose the EXPORT TO CC2 option.

My settings on Fractal Terrains for that particular world were:

Under World Settings:

PRIMARY TAB
Highest Peak - 30000
Lowest Depth - -30000
Circumference: 25600 miles
World Seed: 933476636
Roughness: 1.00
Percent Sea: 70
Land Size: 2.44

FRACTAL FUNCTION:
Method: Ridged Mutlifractal
Flip Fractal Function (Both Horizontal and Veritcal are checked)

After that, to get the nice Earthy Look, choose:

MAP > SHow Gaia

And that gets you the nice view.

But, in Fractal terrains, I usually just keep clicking the RANDOM SEED button and then the APPLY TO CURRENT WORLD

[Justintime]

Ok maybe a stupid question but in FT, I can't figure out how to add in clouds. Could you possibly enlighten me in this area?

[MadLetter]

Hey Neon!

I cant await 4th Edition and already worked up three stretches of land for campaigns... but i scrappd them all and now I wanted to the same thing as you, only from the other side out.

I will probably begin with a small area and work out... look forward to it!

See you round..!

[Badger]

Map> Show Gaia

[Justintime]

ahah! Figured it out, thank you.

[NeonKnight]

So I am currently in the process of Redoing in a sense the Campaign Ilse for my 4e Campaign.

I redid the isle a bit using Waldonrate's fabulous tutorials, and am currently redoing the island Colors and stuff.