Yeah, i'm going to redo the rivers. I did them in a bit of a hurry and when you're zoomed in really close its hard to remember where the rivers were going and coming from.
All those small little dots aren't actually supposed to be islands, they were just stray/mess pixels that seemed to get picked up by the shelf layer during construction, in the final map they won't be there as some of them are in locations that will be occupied by other landmasses. That and they're a bit unsighlty.
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Ah, good then... the littles dots are indeed a bit unsightly
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Hey guys, update more frequently now that i have an easy colouring system.
I tweaked the map i posted before to remove most of the river violations and those little annoying dots, i left some to serve as small islands.
I've also coloured another region, the area directly to the south. The colours didn't come out excatly the same, a problem somewhere in the Land phase, but when you put them next to each other its not that noticeable.
I'm not including any borders or place names yet until i've settled on how many kingdoms i want. I want to keep it down to around 11-13 becuase i have to write a back story for each and the fewer there are, the easier it will be.
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Those are nice, I really like the shape of the one on the right..
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I'm actually going to redo the one on the right as the flaw in the land stage has really messed with the colouring of the rest of the map. I'm working on the third section and found out what the flaw was and now that i've found it the problesm with the second section are now a lot more noticeable.
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Finished colouring the third, and smallest, region of Adallia. The continental ridge didn't quite come out the way i had hoped on this one but it's good enough as it is.
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Yeah, i'm going to break up the continental shelf, i think it cam out this way because my shoreline is a bit too smooth or something like that. The area of "bubbly" shelf is supposed to be an underwater split, the idea is that is where two tectonic plates are pulling apart. The centre island was formed when a hotspot under the break pushed the land up and formed an island volcano, sort of like with Iceland or Hawaii.
Maybe i should just remove the continental shelves altogether, it looks good but its getting a little annoying.
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The progress here is looking really good. There's still a few river issues on the first map, as well as some on the second:
Map 1:
1. toward the south, there's a collection of three nearby lakes. All three of the lakes are connected, and between them there are 4 outlets to the sea, all being fed by one set of streams from the mountains, which would be a highly unusual situation. The interconnectedness, per se, isn't the problem, but the number of outlets to the sea that a single stream is feeding. To fix this, you could do several things: (a) split off the different outlets to the sea and have each fed by a different set of (non-connected) feeder streams or (b) eliminate some of the outlets and let only one outlet dominate. Additionally, it would be unlikely that a river would split to feed two different lakes. Take the Great Lakes as an example: while they are all interconnected, each has an exit river that feeds the next lake, forming a chain of lakes rather than a web.
2. Just north of that, there are several more interconnected lakes with 5 outlets to the sea.
3. On the western promontory, there are several feeders heading to one lake with two exit rivers (one of which immediately splits). One of those exits feeds another lake, which also has two exits, so that at the end, you've got a total 5 outlets to the sea here.
4. Toward the east, around the volcano overseeing the marshland, you've got a lot of rivers feeding into what I think is a single outlet to the sea (which is good), but in the headwaters just north of the volcano is a set of small lakes that are meshed together. To fix this one, just chain the lakes together with one line of rivers (they can have other rivers feeding into them, but have only one exit that continues downstream), or break off the links between them and have each feed the downstream river separately.
5. On the northern cape/horn you've got a river that splits partway to the sea into two outlets.
Quick rule of thumb: starting at the sea, I shouldn't be able to trace a line upriver and then back downriver to the sea again at a different location without ever leaving the water. Many streams feed into fewer and fewer major rivers as they go toward the sea.
Map 2:
1. Northwestern island: one lake with two exit rivers going to the sea.
2. Northwest corner of the mainland: A medium round lake has many feeder rivers and one exit to the sea, but one of it's feeders appears to be from a river that splits and feeds another lake that also has an outlet to the sea. That feeder would tend to feed one of the lakes or the other, but not both.
3. Southern Coast of the midwest, a small lake has two exits to the sea.
4. The southeast on the western cape, two exits to the sea from a single lake.
5. The southeast on the eastern cape, two exits to the sea from a single lake.
Anyway... that's all that I can find. Haven't looked at the third (posted just now) map, so no comments on that, yet.
Points of praise: Overall, this looks great! Good luck with the rivers.
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