My world in creation: fygl

[ironmetal250]

very nice, a whole lot of land compared to water though. I'm not sure how that would affect the climate or anything.

[MadLetter]

Woah, how did you go about doing this? I wanted to get a little into projection and similar stuff once my exams are over

[zhar2]

Ironmetal250 the climate would be quite different to earth, the planet would see quite a dry equatorial region, specially around the middle of large landmasses with the exeptions where there are mayor water bodies.

The polar coasts in the contrary would be drenched by heavy rain, overall there arent any seasons due to an almost negligible tilt, pressure its a bit higher than earth plus shorter days, this would make a rather turbulent atmosphere while minimising large temperature gradients from the poles to the equator.

But i suppose besides the high and strong winds it would be a pleasent world full of islands and warm climate, and for people who like cold alpine waether it contains quite alot of mountains (though not as high as earths due to a gravity of 1.3 g) caused by high volcanism.

mad letter, im quite pleased with my method but its time consumming as most of the maps i make are at around 8192x4096 pixels.

[Ascension]

I'm gonna hit ya with some rep because I love the satellite style and yours looks great. Since I have moved to the more artistic side it makes my heart smile to see this and makes me want to go back. Very nice job.

[selden]

Woah, how did you go about doing this? I wanted to get a little into projection and similar stuff once my exams are over

There are quite a few programs which can draw a map on a sphere for you, although, of course, learning how to do it from scratch can be rewarding in itself.

For example, using Celestia ( http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ ) the map on the left can be used to draw the planet on the right:

[zhar2]

ill post some more maps soon, ive just been a bit side tracked creating the progenitors in max and some other bits for it.