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Sorry to say that I don't have a better method than that yet. Gives good results though.
Welcome, and my compliments on a very nice first map. I think you pretty much achieved your goals spot-on.
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Sorry to say that I don't have a better method than that yet. Gives good results though.
Very cool, very nice, and totally unlike all of the other Gimp-made maps I've seen here. Well done.
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@mimi- perhaps you can share some of your techniques with us. How long have you used GIMP?
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heh.... Yea... that's from the "When all you have is a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail" school of building philosophy.....
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I've been using GIMP for various things since I think 2003. I'd be happy to share my, erm..."techiques" with people, except they aren't exactly precise, I don't normally set out to use them how I end up using them and I rarely end up repeating them in the same exact way twice.
Your map is simply beautiful and inspiring.
Welcome!
Haaarrrrrrggg
Because I can't look at something I made and say "Yeah that's fine" there is this result.
My main intention was to produce better mountains. I don't like the terrain colours and may just copy and paste the new mountains over the old map for a combined result. But the certainty of that is yet to be seen.
Better or worse? Origional or new?
I think I have to agree with both assessments: I like the newer mountains somewhat more than the previous, but prefer the original terrain colors.
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I actually like the second one better (the mountains are much, much better), though both are good.
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