The first thing that comes to mind is that the ocean seems too detailed compared to the land right now...my eye keeps getting drawn to the ocean. That will persist until the land gets more work. Once the land is done then you can reassess your ocean so I wouldn't worry about it too much for now. If you do want to to tone it down some, for the time being, then I'd take out an airbrush and paint over the open spaces and leave the detail around the coast (on a new layer of course).
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I airbrushed the open waters with a deep blue colours, and it alleviated the tiling problem a bit (as well as your concerns, I hope, Ascension).
Will try to get some more work in on it in the weekend (got "forced" into a little trip by some friends).
Last edited by Weero; 06-11-2009 at 09:24 AM.
I really dig the detail in the mountains shape and the texture you used. Are you using a layer mask to make the mountain shape come through?
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No, I simply used a tileable heightmap from this thread as a texture. I'm still planning to further define the mountains with about two more layers.Originally Posted by jfrazierjr
I love pattern mapping. =)
Would you mind posting up your psd or xcf file? I would love to take look at how you did the layers to accomplish this effect.
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Sure, though it's not anything special.
(the file size is lowered by alot)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b...4e75f6e8ebb871
Alright, updating now.
As you can see I decided to get rid of any kind of texture for the oceans and just went with a simple cloud rendering, noise and gaussian blur. Trying out another ground texture as well.
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