Larger scale mountains in regional maps. GIMP.

[alexandream]

Yeah it's basically useless to create lots of individual peaks: You either make a ridge or use the technique in a tiresome way to create each peak in a mountain range.

As I mentioned on another thread, I came up with this trying to replicate the terrain as seen in Google Maps for a specific style of ridge found in Death Valley, CA, USA, with Google Map's scale of 1px =~ 300m.

It's still far from the intent, but I figured that it the ideas would be more useful to people more skilled than myself so I decided to post it. Perhaps someone can put it to good use.

To be more precise, the inspiration came from this specific ridge: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=3...469177&t=p&z=9 to the east of Lone Pine

[Sigurd]

Thank you so much for sharing the real world inspiration. I wish we, as a group, would do that more often.


Sigurd

[kjdavies]

To be more precise, the inspiration came from this specific ridge: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=3...469177&t=p&z=9 to the east of Lone Pine

I'm impressed, you're actually fairly close in principle. You might try displacing the ridge layer by the ridge layer (experiment with the displacements, but you probably don't want to go much over 5-10 or you get stretch marks).

I didn't realize what precisely you were trying to do; my previous reply started an hour or two ago (got interrupted...).

K.