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    Quote Originally Posted by su_liam View Post
    I have to say global maps like this don't need scales so much assuming they are of Earthlike size. Now it might be a good idea to tell if this is actually a million mile diameter Dyson sphere around a small red dwarf star, "Those large islands are only a little bigger than Africa."
    Yes, Aeryl is meant to be a "normal" roughly earth sized world. Should have mentioned that earlier. Sorry about the confusion.

    Anyway, I redid the water and tried something else for the "blast" effect and the mountains. What do you think?

    I'll be doing an "aged" version later.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ra-Tiel View Post
    Yes, Aeryl is meant to be a "normal" roughly earth sized world. Should have mentioned that earlier. Sorry about the confusion.

    Anyway, I redid the water and tried something else for the "blast" effect and the mountains. What do you think?

    I'll be doing an "aged" version later.
    Mountains look much better. I think I rather liked the first approach with the blasted area just because it had a nice physical distinction from the normal "green plains" areas that most of the rest of the continent has.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
    Mountains look much better. I think I rather liked the first approach with the blasted area just because it had a nice physical distinction from the normal "green plains" areas that most of the rest of the continent has.
    Played around with the "blast" thing some more.

    Also, did an aged version of the current map.
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    And another aged version. This one's done with the previous "blast" graphic.
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    I finally experimented a bit with different fonts and settings. How about this font/color/style combination regarding readability?
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