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I began with this topographic... type... map using a rather complicated process involving clouds and spamming the emboss filter

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so then i used a palette map and the topography palette to color it

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and then i used the contours and stuff to make a river and stuff

and

well thats all i have so far

yeah im going to add a couple cities and stuff to this as well

im kinda proud of it