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Thanks guys.
There's been a bit of interest in my height maps so I've thrown together a rough overview for those interested in how I've been doing this. Of course, the PSD file has many more layers that have tweaks and other things as I worked into it all, and the map is still in progress, but this is the general flow of things...
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here's a full resolution of the final height map...
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Last edited by jezelf; 09-15-2008 at 01:35 PM.
...and the current version of the finished land before detailing with cities and roads and such.
I've put in some more relief definition with the mountains. I might work on this some more before the challenge deadline. This challenge is really helping me learn more stuff.
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Good Job, Good job!
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Added more relief shading for the mountains
Added drop shadows for the major names of places
Still need to
add in a few more sea routes
some more trails
maybe some location features on the overlay info like ruins, forts, villiages what have you.
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OK - this is as far as I'm taking it. Learn a bunch of stuff doing this and it also turned up things I need to work on for the next map - Fonts, Hills, Forests Naming of stuff and generally the information displayed.
Well, probably took about 30hrs and time to submit it as final...
Thanks for looking and of course your valued input and opinions.
jez
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This is really quite spectacular Jezelf, well done.
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I'm with The General, it looks fantastic, even the labels and roads and misc graphic work fit into place. I would say that you don't really have anything to work on/improve. Excellent job! And I shall now beat thee about the head and shoulders with my Club of Repping (+1 to hit).
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Thanks for the comments!
after a bit of a break from it, I thought the whole map was looking a bit dark - so brightened it up a bit...so hopefully this is it. (though I might review it again in a few days!) I am actually now a bit sick of this map- but I keep wanting to make sure it's as best as I can get it - I must stop fiddling with it (ooh-err missus) or I'll over work it.
Do intend to put up a 'making of' on my site (not a tutorial just an more detailed overview) for any interested parties. Though I might go off any do another map with my new box of tricks I learnt on this one, first
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each version just got better and better... I am going to have to really look through that step by step that you showed.
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