Is there anyway you could do a guide or tutorial on how you accomplished this? I am in love with this style.
This is indeed something I have considered for quite some time already. The challenge is that I keep on changing the working methods constantly. But maybe I could gather the best practices into a guide.Originally Posted by Logan Medved
In a meanwhile here are links to few small guides related to the techniques I use. I hope these will come handy.
Heightmaps: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=16688
Houses: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=28219
A great and wonderful piece. I love the realistic look of this map. It's the kind of styling that I aim for and seek to emulate with my own works. I wonder if these techniques would be adaptable to a global map as I tend to make than a regional map. You mentioned your use of GeoControl, I have briefly fooled around in the program and wonder did you follow a guide for the program or did you just play around with it until you got results you desired?
Last edited by Kyros; 06-14-2015 at 04:22 AM.
I have been just playing a round with the program to get a suitable result. Quite often I combine several Geocontrol maps together as I don't ever seem to get all things right in one go.
You can find some instructions in Geocontrol web pages. There is also a guide made by our fellow cartographer Tilt. Search the forum by his name and you'll get started in now time.
I thank you for the info and I'll have to search the forum for Tilt's Guide. I am eager to try out using GeoControl to improve my maps and always looking for a way to achieve a more realistic appearance, in particular with my latest map.
http://www.cartographersguild.com/at...7&d=1429834137
Making use of heightmaps is not something I've done before so I have little idea of how to do so. I primarily used Ascension atlas style tutorial cobbled together with some other tutorials to create it. Though there are parts that I felt rather dissatisfied with mainly the terrain and mountains seeming too flat. I did create the forest texturing using your Terrain Creation tutorial and have thought about trying out the mountain creation technique it mentioned. It will be interesting to see if I can replicate anything close to what you have done with your beautifully lifelike maps.
Think I've looked at this and your other maps a hundred times, and every time I think I should just hire you for mapping, LOL. Simply impressive.
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Sorry for resurrection. Due to my work and home life, I do not get enough free time to visit here often as I like.
First thing I did when coming back is search for anything "pasis" and browse. Now I have to comment.
This is a wonderfully awesome work of art!
I saw a comment on the WIP for this about the parallel ridges. I love them. After studying geography and geology in college, I would say this entire region has had the sedimentary layering upturned to a 90°, or near, angle. I actually went on a field trip during the summer. University paid for the plane trip as the professor was doing some studies and wanted a few hands. We drove as close as could, hiked rest of way (about 14km), and made a camping/hotel trip out of it. We visited a place in Canada where the layers were upturned to an angle of about 88°. What those parallel lines tell me is this whole area is upturned, eroding away, created a sink hole that did not sink very deep and filled in. I LOVE THIS!
I work for the State of North Carolina as a Geomantic Geographic Information Survey Specialist. Basically what we do is make geomantic surveys of the Great Smoky Mountains area creating extremely hi-res DEMs of the mountains. We usually go camping during the spring and the fall of each year performing the surveys to get point data, and when it gets too hot or too cold, we come back to town and process the data into a Geographic Information System GeoDatabase. Sorry, the data is proprietary until the State of North Carolina releases it.
I use Photoshop a lot at work making similar maps as attached (an old file from university days). This was a map base I used, and I am still working on in Photoshop. I have been wanting to try Pasis's methods, but ain't had time to practice. I did try once, long ago.
Keep up the fabulous artwork, pasis.
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I love this map, especially the water.
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