Reply With QuoteThanks for the clarification, I didn't have time to look it up so I was just guessing on the whole wadi thing.Originally Posted by Valarian
Sink holes/"quick"sand or whatever you want to call them works for me.
Wadi's are just dry river beds. In the rainy season they flash flood and become rivers again for a while. The swamps are probably better the dust basin / sinkhole type formations. Loose sand collecting in bedrock depressions but not compacting. Very dangerous.
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Thanks for the clarification, I didn't have time to look it up so I was just guessing on the whole wadi thing.
Sink holes/"quick"sand or whatever you want to call them works for me.
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Forests could mean anything I suppose you could have a petrified forest.... might be appropriate in a desert environment... just a thought
I had that same thought... I'm gonna play around with some other textures and see if i can find anything I like better. This is still got a ways to go before its finished.Forests could mean anything I suppose you could have a petrified forest.... might be appropriate in a desert environment... just a thought
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As hard as I try to see it correctly, my brain keeps inverting this map. I wonder if there's something you can do to the coastlines to force the water to be perceived as water.
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OK, finally had sometime to get back to this. I tweaked some of the textures, though I'm still not entirely happy with the "forest" texture, I haven't been able to find anything I liked better. Added the compass rose, the scale bar, cities, city names, map title, etc.
OK, just in case I don't get back to this I wanted to include this little bit of history that goes along with the map. It's no literary masterpiece, but I think it came out OK.
09/16/08: Allrighty then... after several hours of fruitless searching for a replacement texture for the forests with no success. I'm going to call this done.
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I know that you were intending for your forests to be more like scrublands rather than full-on forests since this is more of a desert, but I couldn't pick 'em out, so yeah maybe a lil more tweaking, maybe a very slight greenish-brown color, I dunno. The text effects are perfect by the way and fit the font and feel very nicely.
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I love the map SG. My favourite parts are the bits that used to be swampland. Your textures for those areas are excellent. The map has such a desolate feel to it, the impression is created that something really bad happened here. Excellent character and mood.
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