RobA's Artistic Regional Map in Gimp Tutorial - Revised Presentation

[DragonLord]

When you modify curves, etc... you need to unselect the selection, did you do it?

[kjdavies]

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Any ideas why my mountain has turned out so bad. Ive tried the mountain tutorial 3 orv 4 times now and I'm sure I've done it step by step, but keep getting the same results as above.

Hi Holdenburg,

If I had to guess, you're missing a mask on the mountain layer(s). The mountain techniques I use include a mask on the color and bump map layers associated with the mountains. Without them they don't blend well at all, and you could expect to see something like this.

[wisemoon]

Hey there folks, thanks a lot for the compliments and thanks for using my revision of RobA's tutorial. Unfortunately I am in school during the fall and spring and working fulltime all year, so the only time I really get a chance to work on my cartography is during winter break and the summer. I'll try to go through the posts here and see if I can clarify some of the steps where people were having problems. I'll post the revision when I get it done.

Thanks again! And happy mapping!

Megan/wisemoon

[triarius]

I'm working through the revised (wisemoon) tutorial, referring back to the original (RobA). Step references here are for the former. I can get as far as completing the sea, which leaves me with a solid blue landmass and a sea that is darker near the shore than in deeper water. When I try to start "Building up the Landmass," I get a blend of the green with the solid blue that making the sea left on the land. I've been carefully following the tutorial about six times in a row, and I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[robsawn]

Hi, I feel like a bit of an idiot, but I'm getting stuck on the land mask and sea shape steps. I don't get a gradient when adjusting the pixel size, just a flat white screen. Super frustrating, I'm pretty sure I followed what the tutorial said word for word, and yet nothing. Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

[Freodin]

Hi, I feel like a bit of an idiot, but I'm getting stuck on the land mask and sea shape steps. I don't get a gradient when adjusting the pixel size, just a flat white screen. Super frustrating, I'm pretty sure I followed what the tutorial said word for word, and yet nothing. Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

Could you be a little more specific about what step you are at and what you are doing?

[robsawn]

Steps 19-23 of part 1, and, so far, all of the beginning of part 2. I'm using Gimp 2.8, and I think it's to create the sea?

[Freodin]

Steps 19-23 of part 1, and, so far, all of the beginning of part 2. I'm using Gimp 2.8, and I think it's to create the sea?

I still cannot follow you... you need to be more precise. You said that you didn't get a gradient "when adjusting the pixel size". What pixel size were you adjusting, at what step? I guess it is one of the Gaussian Blurs, but I just went through the whole process and cannot find any problems.

[robsawn]

Part 2, step 4, that gradient. I just get a white or black field all across the preview window.

[Freodin]

Part 2, step 4, that gradient. I just get a white or black field all across the preview window.

Hm. The preview window shows just a small part of your image. What happens when you apply the Gaussian Blur?

This is what should happen.

You have an active layer with a pure black and white shape of your land and sea, right? You have no active selection. You apply a Gaussian Blur, with a rather big value (800 was the value given in the tutorial.)

This should, well... blur between the black and white, resulting in a rather smooth gradient all over your image.

What happens instead?