Welcome aboard, looking good.
About the only remotely negative thing I can say is that it looks like its is 'floating' above the water. But thats not a bif deal.
Welcome aboard, looking good.
About the only remotely negative thing I can say is that it looks like its is 'floating' above the water. But thats not a bif deal.
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Thank you.
I didn't pay much attention to the water, since my goal was to showcase the use of textures on the landmass.
Siguard did something similar in this post you might get a few ideas by looking at it.
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I think its a very good avenue to develop, and a great idea ghostman!
My own experience was that unless you are transforming an image into a map directly ie. the pictured land mass is the same as the map... you are better off to use the satellite image as a source for patterns and brushes.
I think its great for bump shading but you need to cut and paste with an artists eye.
I'd recommend any mapper spend some time with the images though. Land from space seems a lot flatter than it looks from down here!
Sigurd
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