The Köppen–Geiger climate classification made simpler (I hope so)

[Charerg]

I thought I was finished, but I did spot a few areas that could be improved a little. Namely the eastern portion of the northeastern continent (Rheada), which transitions straight from the dry climates into Df or Cw climates, even though this area roughly resembles Manchuria, so there should be a narrow fringe of Dw climates between the steppes and the coastal Df climates. I think the summer temperatures in the area were a bit too high in general. I tried to increase the summer rains in the eastern portion of the continent to reduce the dry areas somewhat, some Dwa should turn up now.

I guess the area could be tuned manually, but in case you haven't run the script yet, these are the (hopefully) final temperature and precipitation maps.

[Azélor]

If this is not the last test, for the next time, could you change the purple for deadly cold? The color is a bit off.

[Charerg]

Looking at the climate map, I believe the map has now reached a level of accuracy that it can be considered "final", apart from minor adjustments that are best done manually. Once again, many thanks, without your assistance it wouldn't have been possible to make this many tests with different temperature and precipitation maps!

Overall, the climates seem pretty "balanced" now, the amount of Af looks realistic (apart from a few weird instances that will have to be fixed manually). One minor criticism is that Am seems to be pretty rare, although I guess it's not that common on Earth either. But the Am transition zone can be manually added between Af and Aw now that those two are ok. Btw, did you adjust the steppes manually, or are the ones appearing on the map script-generated?

[Azélor]

Am is about as common as they are in real life since it' a transition area.

I adjusted the steppes manually and it should be ok.

[mbartelsm]

Azelor, what scale did you use for precipitations? I want to try my hand at defining biomes with the maps I've already made, but I don't think guessing the scale you used will do me any good

[Azélor]

I think this is what you are looking for. http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...l=1#post277812

[mbartelsm]

Must've missed it, thanks!

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I made this biome placement tutorial as a follow up of this guide. To help people interested in defining their biomes as well as their climates.

I will now begin working on formatting this guide into a pdf and will post again when finished.

[Mysterious Mapmaker XXIII]

Hey there! Been a while!

So, now that the actual climate step is done, what's next?

[Azélor]

Hey there! Been a while!

So, now that the actual climate step is done, what's next?

There is nothing else planned except maybe polishing the existing tutorial.
And there was also the biomes right after the climates.

Other things I considered implementing but were bad ideas:
type of soil (strongly correlated to climates but I don't see why someone would bother with this)
population density (the correlation between climates and density is really weak)

[Mysterious Mapmaker XXIII]

I assume that "polishing" includes compiling the whole tutorial into one document? Or at least a more easy-to-look up format?

Anyways, I love your work on this tutorial, and look forward to using it for my own world.