Second attempt... need help with oceans, borders, etc.

[Deadshade]

This is quite nice !
Did you use Wilbur or fractal terrain ? I am asking because Wilbur creates beautiful and realistic rivers but has this weakness that it creates them even in frozen polar lands where are no rivers.
You should eliminate them.

[sheldonl]

I did use Wilbur to create the rivers. I did not use any automated mechanism to create fractal terrains, I hand drew them based on rough guidelines of where I'd put tectonic plates. Once Wilbur created a high map and I created a bump map from that then I decided where the lakes would go and drew those by hand as well. I tried to keep in the guidelines previously mentioned in this thread while using only areas around the same elevation. I'll look at eliminating them in the arctic regions.

[sheldonl]

This is quite nice !
Did you use Wilbur or fractal terrain ? I am asking because Wilbur creates beautiful and realistic rivers but has this weakness that it creates them even in frozen polar lands where are no rivers.
You should eliminate them.

Ok. Have a look at the attached and let me know if this is better.

[sheldonl]

Ok I've also done some work on general climate zones, ocean currents and winds. I'm attaching these to this post and would appreciate any feedback on how realistic those are and if I've got the regions done correctly as a result.




Thank you to everyone who has replied with suggestions and criticisms, you are really helping me make this better and learn...