Hey Arsheesh, what a brilliant tutorial. I have just worked through it in a couple of hours and came up with this:
Not pefect by any means, but I'll definitely take it - it's an order of magnitude better than any of my previous attempts.
Have some rep!
Not perfect but not bad at all for a first attempt. Imagine what this might look like once you are more familiar with the techniques.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Are you aware that you've cut the poles?
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What do you mean by that?
I've been using this tutorial for a while, and I'm loving it. Right now I'm at the gradient-spraying stage.
But not that I've gotten this far, I've noticed a problem with my map. I have way too many basins for my liking. I'll likely make some of them into lakes, but I'd like to add some new elevation to some of them.
I don't really mind if the additions are applied to the Temperate Gradient, I just want to edit the bump map so it fits better, do you know of a way to do this without mucking up my process?
I appreciate any help that I receive!
So, I figured out what you meant with the poles, I think and put them in:
I don't know how this will look in wilbur or if the placement of the mountains is okay, but that is probably a topic for another thread.
It's better like that. There is still a black border but it's just a matter of taste.
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Oh, yeah, I left the black border for now, because I probably want to make something there, not sure yet. But, of course, it is not part of the map.
Thanks for the feedback with the poles
I am working through this tutorial. I have just finished with the Wilbur section, and am starting on the Bump Map section. I couldn't get Wilbur to make a lake in the bottom left valley, so I figured I would add that later.
However, I cannot get GIMP to select just the rivers like he does in the tutorial. If I click towards the bottom of the rivers, it only selects up to that point. If I click further and further up it starts to highlight the entire coast, which I don't want either.
I can clearly tell where there are rivers and where there are not, so how do I get the program to do so?
Yes, this is a problem with the selection method I outlined in the tutorial: it only works up to a certain point. Another method which offers more precision is to create a separate (non-visible) layer which contains only the rivers. When you wish to make a river selection you can make this layer visible and use the select by color tool on the rivers. So how do you get this rivers layer? Well for that you need to load your height map back into wilbur, run "Fill Basins" (Filter > Fill > Fill Basins), and then apply the "River Flow" texture (Texture > Other Maps > River Flow). A popup menu will appear which allows you to select the color of the start and end points of the river (you will want to select dark grey and light grey for these) and adjust, via slider, the river length to be shown. You will also need to select the "Use Solid Background" box (which should be set to black by default). Click "OK" and this will output a Height map of just the rivers. Export this (as a textur .png file) to whatever map folder you are using for this project and then import it as a layer to GIMP. Voila.Originally Posted by Wertoiuy
I am working through this tutorial. I have just finished with the Wilbur section, and am starting on the Bump Map section. I couldn't get Wilbur to make a lake in the bottom left valley, so I figured I would add that later.
However, I cannot get GIMP to select just the rivers like he does in the tutorial. If I click towards the bottom of the rivers, it only selects up to that point. If I click further and further up it starts to highlight the entire coast, which I don't want either.
I can clearly tell where there are rivers and where there are not, so how do I get the program to do so?
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
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