Holy smokes that looks good. I'd lose my mind putting in all of those rivers. Nice job.
Holy smokes that looks good. I'd lose my mind putting in all of those rivers. Nice job.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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Thanks... I'm not sure, but I may have lost mine. Of course that's only the major rivers showing (small rivers, streams, and wadis aren't going to show on a world-map), and they're not to scale (with the full-size image being 7300 pixels wide, there's a little over 3-miles per pixel, making some of those rivers appear to be something on the order of 50-70 miles across at their widest points).Originally Posted by Ascension
What was frustrating was that I had drawn in the major rivers of the continent of primary interest to me (the north-western one) before I discovered a slightly better and easier method that produced somewhat nicer-looking results.
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You'd lose your mind, and my eyeballs would jump out of my head and disappear in tiny puffs of flame.
Looking forward to see where this goes Karro.
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...from the still not yet posted FAQ on images (I really gotta get on that...)
-Rob A>Limitations
Unfortunately, there are also a couple of limitations. The first is file sizes. The following is a list of the file size limits:
bmp - 7.63 MB
gif - 7.63 MB
jpg - 4.77 MB
png - 4.77 MB
The second limit is the actual image size. The image must be less than 30 megapixels in actual size. If you try to upload a 6000x6000 jpeg that has a file size of only 1MB, it will fail (sometimes with a blank screen, sometimes with a database error depending on the actual size...) as it is 36 megapixels. This limitation is being worked on, and will hopefully be resolved soon.
To show of images larger than this, you will have to use an off-site image hosting service and provide a link.
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Ahh.... that explains it. I knew about the 4MB file size restriction, but I did not know about the Pixel-size restriction. I do believe that must be what's causing the failure.
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Hopefully somewhere good. In my mind's-eye, at least, it does.You'd lose your mind, and my eyeballs would jump out of my head and disappear in tiny puffs of flame.
Looking forward to see where this goes Karro.
My ultimate goal, and the reason I started using GIMP, is to be able to have a pleasant-looking base map that I could overlay different informational "transparencies" such as political boundaries or other information. I'll also want to be able to peel away specific regions and zoom in for a more detailed map... but that will come later, and is lower on the priority list.
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Well...
I just wasted a lot of time where I should have been studying for mid-terms.
But, I got color back in the map. It's not quite back up to the level I had before I went back to finagle the islands into something a little more natural looking. So there's still a long way to go! No land features as yet, just basic land color and some ocean shores.
Next, a bit more work on the land to give it depth and character. Then mountains.
To do the work on the mountains, I'll probably have to flatten several layers of the image in order to reduce working size.
Does anyone happen to know if I can transfer layers between images in GIMP?
So... Midterms this week. I must study. I probably won't have much in the line of updates for this again in a while.
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You can just drag a layer at a time. Or if you want all of them, use the "Open as Layers" command.
-Rob A>
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I hoped it would work something like that.
Sometimes, due to file size and RAM constraints, I'm forced to merge layers, but I always save down a copy of the file before the merge so I can refer back to it if necessary.
Now I know for sure I can pull out individual layers as necessary!
Thanks!
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