Reply With Quote
And a reminder that you can upload a ZIP, so if you wished to share an XCF file, just zip it up and attach!
-Rob A>
Originally Posted by David
The BLUE PIP 'o' SHAME is what I call the blue REP pip (you have a single green pip right now, I have 2 green pips, etc...) that all newbie's start with that represent 0 REP. I don't like the blue pip, and will rep all new posters so they have a green pip and feel all warm and special.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
And a reminder that you can upload a ZIP, so if you wished to share an XCF file, just zip it up and attach!
-Rob A>
My tutorials: Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map ~ All My Tutorials
My GIMP Scripts: Rotating Brush ~ Gradient from Image ~ Mosaic Tile Helper ~ Random Density Map ~ Subterranean Map Prettier ~ Tapered Stroke Path ~ Random Rotate Floating Layer ~ Batch Image to Pattern ~ Better Seamless Tiles ~ Tile Shuffle ~ Scale Pattern ~ Grid of Guides ~ Fractalize path ~ Label Points
My Maps: Finished Maps ~ Challenge Entries ~ My Portfolio: www.cartocopia.com
Just playing around with this one. Took about 4 hours total. Theres a tut that I saw a while back for mass production of planet maps. I'll play with that one over the weekend. This one used the Mountain Tut from .... hhmm can't remember his name, but he's here at the CG Forums I know that. The only change that I did to his Tut was to reduce pixelation, I grew the selected area and then used Gaussian Blur at 2 pixels.
Still have a very very long way to go though to produce the look and feel of some of the maps I have seen here.
Ok that was WAY easier than I thought it would be.
1. Open GIMP.
2. On the Tools Bar next to File you see the Xtns Menu. Open it.
3. Scroll down to Patterns.
4. When Patterns opens, select "Render Map".
5. For your first map, use the defaults. Select OK.
6. GIMP will open a new dock and you'll have a Randomly generated Planetary Map. Not a great one, but still it took you like 30 Seconds.
7. If you want to add it to a Sphere, go to Filters.
8. Select Map/Map Object.
9. Use the Defaults for a quickie.
10. Bingo, your done. (May want to add a black or start field background to spruce it up a bit.)
Like this. With a few clouds.
Lookin pretty good, but drop the beaches...you'd never see 'em from space. Nice job.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Hi David welcome to the guild!
Good luck with your new career pursuit in game development. Here's some other forums that might help you, not particularly exclusivley fantasy, but you can post that stuff there:
ImagineFX.com
conceptart.org
cgtalk.com
good to have you with us!
Last edited by jezelf; 10-31-2008 at 06:38 PM.
Posting Permissions