A new world map, untitled

[Malakor]

Aye, I do it when it's slow. My bosses don't really care what I do in my meager amounts of down time. I handle graphic design, desktop maintenance and repairs and minor IT stuff, plus photography and maintaining our web site, and I'm there 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, so they like to keep me happy

Ascension, I took your advice and basically took a flattened version of the parchment map and played around with it a bit.

I'll be posting it in the Leshan thread shortly.

Thanks

[Gandwarf]

Aye, I do it when it's slow. My bosses don't really care what I do in my meager amounts of down time. I handle graphic design, desktop maintenance and repairs and minor IT stuff, plus photography and maintaining our web site, and I'm there 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, so they like to keep me happy

LOL... I can imagine they want to keep you happy.

Well, I only work 36 hours a week, which in the Netherlands is fulltime
60 hours a week sounds really difficult. It leaves a lot less time for private stuff.

[Ascension]

Here's where I'm at now. Pay no attention to the notes in white, those are just to remind me to put in some more buttons before calling it done. It looks rather confusing right now because all of the buttons are currently "turned on". I'm in the process of making images for the various combinations of buttons being on/off.

If I get ambitious enough I'd like to make this into some sort of interactive web thingie so that you can click the buttons and see what they do...but I'm not taking any wagers on that since I know diddley about it. I'd also like to make some sort of journal by the various map owners and their notes on what they've discovered and how they have learned to use it and add to it. I was thinking of maybe doing a pdf but I don't know, I'm not the strongest writer and I'd like the pages to be parchment instead of plain old white. Lastly, I need to do up a regional and encounter view to show what the eye sigil can do.

Added a few of the variations; Base, Start, ViewAllTerrain and ViewTerrainAllMana.

[Ascension]

Here's a journal page that I'm working on; using the "lorem ipsum" text as a layout guide until I do some writing. The font is Herman Decanus AH, I then put a mask on it and used the pixellate filter (with a setting of 3) four or five times to rough it up

[megrim]

Here's where I'm at now. Pay no attention to the notes in white, those are just to remind me to put in some more buttons before calling it done. It looks rather confusing right now because all of the buttons are currently "turned on". I'm in the process of making images for the various combinations of buttons being on/off.

If I get ambitious enough I'd like to make this into some sort of interactive web thingie so that you can click the buttons and see what they do...but I'm not taking any wagers on that since I know diddley about it. I'd also like to make some sort of journal by the various map owners and their notes on what they've discovered and how they have learned to use it and add to it. I was thinking of maybe doing a pdf but I don't know, I'm not the strongest writer and I'd like the pages to be parchment instead of plain old white. Lastly, I need to do up a regional and encounter view to show what the eye sigil can do.

Added a few of the variations; Base, Start, ViewAllTerrain and ViewTerrainAllMana.

Flash is your friend then, remember th Earen interactive map i was doing? it would be best for you to do it in flash.

[Ascension]

I had thought about that but I can barely do roll-over buttons

[Ralthrer]

You should try this then Cofee Cup Firestarter. Its really easy and i think that it will do what you need just fine .Oh and btw, the map is really awsome.

[megrim]

I had thought about that but I can barely do roll-over buttons

you can try swishmax or i could do it for you, i have free time until next monday after that i wont be able to.

[Ascension]

I didn't like how this was coming along, it looks too fake but I can't put my finger on how to fix it (probably the cartoony black stroke and overall dark edges on things but I got tired of trying to fix these). So instead I started just messing around, like I always do, and came up with some variations that looked pretty cool. A copper map, sepia map, and something evil looking.

[Steel General]

Neat ideas (I especially like the 'copper' one) - for me the issue with the original version was the heavy shadowing under the 'floating' land masses. It works well on these last three but I wonder if reducing the opacity on the previous versions would help. *shrugs*