New World Map [Untitled]

[pandahart]

So I've been exploring this forum for quite a while and learning a lot from the tutorials and other great maps. I've done some basic mapping before, but never really liked where any of them were going - until now (finally). I just though I'd post my new map idea and say 'hi' at the same time.

Oh, and thanks to all those tutorials (I can't even remember how many I've been through by now), and especially Naeddyr for G.Projector - it saved my (map's) life, or at least the lives of my polar caps!

I took some time to lay out some quick temperatures and precipitation. I roughed out some mountains (which you can't see on these maps), and the last map is the really rough work-up I did for figuring out the climate areas (using Geoff's Climate Cookbook) - but just for July in the Northern Hemisphere - it already looks confusing as it is, so I didn't try to cram in the January parts on top of everything else!

Also, on a side-note, it's a lot easier to visualize where your polar caps will be & what they'll look like on a sphere if you map your map onto a sphere (I used Maya to rough it in, and just output the sphere-UV's to figure how much room I needed for good, non-pinching polar caps). Don't know if that'll help anyone!