Hey guys!

[CookedNoodles]

We're looking for a 2d map for the 'over world map' pretty much like Ramah described.

Players can use it to navigate between the towns in the game (from the towns they can access tracks).
This is what guild wars does :
http://www.guildwars.com/images/theworld/elona-lrg.jpg

Ideally with different environments : desert, mountains, tundra etc...
Something like http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=7100 is perfect.
The layout doesn't really impact us at all as long as we can place our towns on, so I'll probably shoot out some PMs to people when thats unlocked oh and that includes you Ramah

All we need is a picture, and then we can animate some clouds and possibly water glittering on top.
The only technical constraint imposed is that we need it to be in a good resolution to be full screen.

[Ascension]

1 more post and you can send messages. So just reply to this with something like "oh, ok, that's cool" (all posts have to be at least 10 characters long -- letters, numbers, punctuation, spacing, etc all count).

[Redrobes]

Ok gotcha. Its pure UI eye candy stuff and not for the 3D engine at all.

If you look through this thread

http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3407

you will see a map I did for Galrion. That was enormous and pretty involved but if you want something up to 2Kx2K pixels then I can do that no prob.

If thats what you need then you can go and get this little app...
http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/vi...nstant_islands

and run through some, hitting the Next button until you find one you like. Then take a screenie and post it up here. If you want just a bit of the land within the panel then put a red box around it on the screenie. Put a few stars on the map where you specifically want desert or tropical or whatever if thats something you had in mind but the mountains and possible rivers will be fixed from the map.

EDIT -- Ah, I thought this was in the requests box but this is an intro... are you dead keen to make this map yourself ? Well, ill make it if you like but the island tool is a good starting point anyway as its a free utility.

[CookedNoodles]

1 more post and you can send messages. So just reply to this with something like "oh, ok, that's cool" (all posts have to be at least 10 characters long -- letters, numbers, punctuation, spacing, etc all count).

Oh, ok, tha's cool

and run through some, hitting the Next button until you find one you like. Then take a screenie and post it up here. If you want just a bit of the land within the panel then put a red box around it on the screenie. Put a few stars on the map where you specifically want desert or tropical or whatever if thats something you had in mind but the mountains and possible rivers will be fixed from the map.

EDIT -- Ah, I thought this was in the requests box but this is an intro... are you dead keen to make this map yourself ? Well, ill make it if you like but the island tool is a good starting point anyway as its a free utility.

To be honest, I've always preferred drawn maps to generated ones, they tend to have more ... soul ?

It's really not at all in the project's interest if i do the map myself, especially considering this is a forum full of experienced cartographers

So I'll start shooting off PMs

[Gidde]

It's really not at all in the project's interest if i do the map myself, especially considering this is a forum full of experienced cartographers

Quite a lot of us are relative newbies, actually ... you'd be surprised what you can do following the excellent tutorials