Very nice map. Did you use any Flaming Pear products per chance?
Very nice map. Did you use any Flaming Pear products per chance?
Astrographer - My blog.
Klarr
-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.
Yes. There is no way I could do multiple maps like these for the books and still have time to write them without a tool like flaming pear. I still invest a fair amount of time in getting the planet images to match the writing. A map takes me a good couple of hours to finish but that beats a much longer stretch without the tools.
I used Illustrator for the map below. Pretty basic but it gets across the 1930's flat map look I want to use for the star systems. It is based on the ideas of a much better map maker than I who did a few maps for the game way back in the day. Someday I hope to become as proficient as he is but for now this is about where I am at what with time constraints and everything.
and what should be a larger shot of part of another star system map so you can get a better look.
Beautiful. Both the single star system with planets and the multiple stars.
I absolutely LOVE these--wow! I am so glad you put this here; very inspirational. Perhaps it's because we get so few maps like this (well, sci fi in general, not to mention maps of solar systems), but this stands out in the Guild as a great, great job.
I'll have to check out flaming pear--never heard of it.
Thanks for posting!
Don
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"Keep your mind in hell, but despair not." --Saint Silouan [1866-1938]
LunarCell for planets
SolarCell for stars
Glitterato for starfields and nebulae
Flexify to bend the plate carée maps LunarCell can create into other projections such as Mollweide(good for measuring areas) and icomap(the d20 shaped format so popular with SF games)
you can get free trial periods at flamingpear.com and even I found the prices inexpensive. My use of LunarCell has decreased with my growing sophistication, but I still love hard on Flexify.
Astrographer - My blog.
Klarr
-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.
Incredible. And for 40$ you get the space bundle at Flaming Pear...amazing. I cant wait to use the software.
really nice, although why spain?