[Award Winner] Simple Mountains in Gimp

[Notsonoble]

I've already had lots better luck with this than the mountains in the the regional map tutorial, thanks RobA!

[Bloodwolf]

I think this tutorial, along with the regional tutorial, are extremely useful. It's taken me a week of after work mapping to really get a good hang of them, but I'm eally starting to like the results. The original regional tutorial frustrated me at the mountain stage, but this one really fills in the gaps.

[Vorhees]

Awesome stuff

[sudro2]

I seem to be missing something. In Step 6, when you fill the selection in the Angular Fill layer with the shaped gradient, I can't get the gradient to fill. I have the settings exactly as shown in the screenshot and have the correct layer selected, but when I click inside the selection with the gradient tool, nothing happens. It doesn't even register on the undo list as an action. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[kjdavies]

@sudro2: click and drag. Gradient fills aren't point-click, they need two points to work with. As it happens angular fill basically ignores them, but the interface seems to expect them.

[Soloeus]

I had some minor issues, because I forgot to Emboss the entire layer, I was at first embossing just the selection. I got better results first embossing the selection, THEN the layer, then 50% grey bucket.

I also filled the original "Mountain Copy" layer with "Bark", and it gave it a nice brown texture.


Thank you for this tutorial, it is still helping people. I am a little lost, but I am trying.