Btw.. had a really quick scan of the thread and didn't notice anyone flag this up but your rivers are all kinds of wrong. I hadn't looked that closely at your screenies before but now that I have examined them closely your rivers.... are kinda fubar. :S
Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss, your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
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I agree. I use one simple rule with rivers: All rivers lead to a Sea or Ocean. On rare occasion they spill into a lake or heath with no outlet to the sea, but rarely.Originally Posted by Ramah
I am surprised the "River Police" did not jump this earlier
Schwarzkreuz, you have some of the best raw talent of anyone I have seen on this website in awhile. You just need to learn a few tricks and methods that will fine tune that talent. Then you will be among the elite mappers here in no time. Cartography can be painstaking work, requiring infinite patience and discipline, well, at least if you want to be good it does.
50 Hours? I have been working on the same map for 6 months!! I am a mess though and overly picky, I have redrawn sections multiple times, and I am still not happy.
River Police can kiss my backside. All that water in the Underdark has to come from somewhere.I am surprised the "River Police" did not jump this earlier.
Thank you jbgibson for your huge amount of help there, and thanks to all who like my map. I am very sorry I didnt finished it by now. It all got me so depressed that I couldnt touch it since end of October. You guys now, Its a Map that I worked on for 2 decades now, as a little kid I invented lots of the areas and so on. But all the things that went wrong at the time making these grande edition of the map depressed and freaked me out. I will work on it again now, just found a trunk full of my old maps at the holydays at my parents place, my old room. So I am about to adding new stuff. And finalize it now.
Double post, please delete.
Last edited by Galendae; 10-12-2011 at 03:27 PM. Reason: double post
Well I have looked through the Atlas Maior of Blaeu. It was and still is realy Hardcore.
@Ramah: I have seen all the Riverpolice stuff. I just dont get it how it should look like. I even read the tuts but still dont see how they should look like....
But Actually I dont have real oceans, what looks like sea is impassable Sanddesserts on a lowground. But yes even so my Rivers are crap, I know, just not how to do them right. Hmmm, but well it is the redo of a map I develloped 15 years since started my first RPG-Group. I will stick to this from nostalgia reasons, but will redo it in a later attemp to clear out the rivers.
Oh my god ... I never knew about the Atlas Maior ... and there's a coffee-table version by Taschen available for just 50 euros O.O ... I'm so buying that.
Buy, the 2 Books edition from the Holland guy.... Dont remember the name, The Taschen Version is croped, so you can often not read teh names at all.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blaeu here are more or less the Maps of the Edition before the Atlas Maior Edition of ~1665
Ok here is an Update again. I will go to bed now. The Mountains are slowly getting done. Only 3 mayor Mountain areas in the North left and two Islands. Rest is Landscape stuff which comes more easy, it will be terrain stuff like gras and stones etc. Ok, well than the next Giant step will be the Fonts and than the Border.
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