Practice Map

[GlennZilla]

I know you had a tendency toward the muted colors. I didn't really have any thoughts for myself on the subject. I usually went for the brighter and higher contrast in my color palette to avoid confusion. But you prove that with a little texture to the image the need is diminished.

To clarify that, I don't have any problems differentiating the grasslands from the forests and the deserts in your maps, despite your color choices running much closer together. I suspect that it's the excellent work you do into adding a texture to those areas.

[loogie]

looks great, i agree with your pts about the mountains... also, tho this isn't really a big deal, is that the maps was really busy for me... to much text (or at least strong text colours that stand out and draw the eye... you got a lot of ground to cover there and obviously a lot of labels.. so i would suggest breaking it into sections, leaving stuff out in the map the size it is, or try having a bit of a ladder, as far as dull or weak text styles for less important object, and dark strong ones for the features that need to stand out...

other then that i like everything so far

[su_liam]

I really, really like this. I don't mind the striated mountains. I suspect you add an erosion stage and those would make a lovely cordillera. My only problem is that you have some pretty bad clipping on the Godsrage Mountains.

Could you describe your terranoise tree in some detail? Is it just a ridged perlin? If so, wow.

[Torq]

Thanks all for the comments and advice, I do appreciate both. Su liam it was simple Ridged perlin from Terranoise. I dont htink I tweeked the roughness settings. I then brought it into Gimp. On a layer above it I rendered clouds as detailed by RobA in his tuts the blend mode was "overlay" in an attempt to get a bit more roughness. It was still a bit smooth so I increased the roughness for the mountains by using an additional bump map based on the mountain texture itself.

By "clipping" do you mean the flat top on the mountains?

Torq

[su_liam]

Yeah, the flat topped mountains.
Just Ridged Perlin, huh? I thought there was at least some distortion there. It certainly looks stretched in places. I wasn't aware that Ridged Perlin could do that out of the box. It kind of resembles the stretched, twisted taffy effect you see on small-scale maps of the Himalayan region.