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OK, Another update... how are the coast lines now?
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lol... it took me 5 minutes solid of looking to figure out exactly what was different....
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OK, Another update... how are the coast lines now?
-Rob A>
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I think those shore outlines are a bit better now. I think you're right in that the spacing and line-length was a major factor in making it look artificial. Another minor factor could be the direction of the line, that is, whether the lines follow a perfect curve around the shore, or whether some are a little off. But I think that's relatively minor thing that would probably take more work than it's worth to do.
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what program did u use? that's the kind of stuff i want to do for my project
If you read the first post or two, I think he said he used Inkscape, but RobA also uses GIMP quite a bit, so it may be a combination of the two.Originally Posted by ambessalion
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That's certainly helped. I think one thing is that the even spacing makes it look very top down which sticks a little with the isometric view of the rest of the map, also, it's darker than the rest of the sea details, perhaps a lower opacity would fix this?
Here's a small example of what I mean about the even distance of the lines:
Is there any way to do a 'opacity gradiant' (for lack of a better term) over the layer with the lines?
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Sure.... from where to where?
Also - Torstan, I took your idea and ran with it... what about this (a full scale sample.. I've been posting 1/2 scale images so far...)
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Ah, now you're talking. That's looking good - I like the full scale of this too.
Much better now, and wow those palm trees are really well done! I knew they were nice but at full rez they really pop.
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