Ulin

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Wow, thanks everyone for the kind words!

Cool, congratulations!

Since I'm from from Germany myself, I'm interested in which game this campaign will be for. Are you allowed to tell?

The team I'm working with is apparently working for Paizo as translators for the German edition of Pathfinder. As a side project they want to develop a Pathfinder compatible campaign setting to write adventures for. Things are still in the early stages but I'll definitely post up some updates on this as things get closer to the point of actual publication.

Wow, I love this map! How did you do those magnificent mountains?

Well this was actually an interesting challenge for me you see, one of the developers on their team has already played around with the Ulin map in order to begin fleshing out the region. In doing so they had grafted some actual satellite images of mountains onto the the map, and they wanted to keep these more or less intact in the final image. My task was to figure out how to do so while blending the surrounding terrain to match them. I did this by creating a height map in Wilbur, placing a layer mask over it, and then painting black over the regions of the Wilbur height map where the sat-mountains were (see below). Took some fiddling around to get it right, but I'm happy with the results. As to the Wilbur portion, for this attempt I used some techniques that Waldronate described in my Eriond tutorial thread (7th page in).