Plate tectonics for new world map. Advice and comments welcome.

[castlewrks]

Are the plate tectonics important to some aspect of your creation? Are they part of your world culture? Do creatures live long enough where these come into play with regard to their lives and style of living? What level of technology does the population have on your world? Certainly, knowledge of this type of world structure wouldn't exist in a medieval/fantasy style culture and certainly not at the level where there would be names for the plates.

If you are going to use this level of mapping, get rid of the oceans. Plate tectonics occur throughout the surface of the world. You seem to be mixing your world map, those levels above sea level, with an abstract that is immaterial to the art and final product.

Enlighten us as to why this level of detail is important to your world.

[Azélor]

Are the plate tectonics important to some aspect of your creation? Are they part of your world culture? Do creatures live long enough where these come into play with regard to their lives and style of living? What level of technology does the population have on your world? Certainly, knowledge of this type of world structure wouldn't exist in a medieval/fantasy style culture and certainly not at the level where there would be names for the plates.

If you are going to use this level of mapping, get rid of the oceans. Plate tectonics occur throughout the surface of the world. You seem to be mixing your world map, those levels above sea level, with an abstract that is immaterial to the art and final product.

Enlighten us as to why this level of detail is important to your world.

He is trying to make a realistic looking map, or he just want his world to be believable. To place mountains, it's useful to have a basic knowledge of the tectonic plates.


And I do not see anything wrong with this map. It look pretty good, to me.