World of Madara

[Tzi]

I love the 2nd picture, how you'v made it look like a real world, I'v been trying to use CC3 to create some kind of world but very detailed and hard to understand everything.

How did you start?...

Actually I started with a webpage about a guys theories about a Terraformed Mars.

I looked at this,

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And from that I just build my own version of a world. Actually some of the source material is still visible. Mariner Canyon is still there only now in the larger map it is a significantly larger inland sea. The Top Image is my current rendition, mainly my attempt at a world with enough Ocean coverage IMO to evenly maintain climate stability. Also still there is the Helles Sea, Chryse Gulf and the Agryge Sea as well as the two big continents general shape.

Mainly I just started with a single layer, with just two colors, one for oceans and one for land and sort of moved things about, added ocean, subtracted ocean, and went from there. I just basically added layers to give color based on climate, like the green areas of the tropics ect... and used a lot of bump maps to give the land form.

The world itself is partly a reaction to other D&D DM's in my areas local setting. Homebrewing a setting is basically the entrance exam, the Trial one has to do to DM in this area. Or at least in the circle. Most of the DM's have created these rather oppressive fairly bleak worlds. One friend has made one where "The bad guys have won and you must cling to hope." another is making a sort of gritty steam punk post apocalypse. I came to the idea of taking their ideas and flipping them on their head. This world, the Bad guys have won, several times, been toppled, civilization has risen collapsed, and the very world has nearly been rendered uninhabitable, but now is terraformed back to life. Were other DM's have sought to make bleak worlds, dying worlds, I decided to flip the script and make a lush vibrant virgin world. My main inspiration is the idea of taking a dead world like say Mars and making it a living world, in this case with magic. Or a dying world like Athas of Dark Suns and Rebirthing it into a lush life filled world of plenty.