CHAUMU - practice map

[Coyotemax]

Voo: nicely done, then! the basic techniques you describe are in pretty common use, but i've not seem them applied quite the way you have before. Kudos to making the technique your own!

And yes, this has gone from "wow nice map" to "holycrap, nice map" The breakup of the banding works very nicely, and the text pops out that little bit more yet still keeps from dominating.

And if it's any consolation I kind of like the town icons myself. If you do decide to change them tomorrow (i've gone through the same kinds of phases myself, heh) I'd suggest seeing what they look like if you shrunk them down to about half size, that might look really nice, but still keep them matching the compass

Well done, sir!

[Jaxilon]

I agree, this is way cool looking. I love your terrain, I'm going to have to fiddle with some of the things you mentioned once I understand them better.

As for the city Icons my first thought was that I wish they had different shapes so I didn't have to remember What the colors meant. I suppose you would get used to that quickly though. I don't mind the jewel look they have though.

I rep thee!

[voo]

more updates...

This time I reduced the icon size, made a minor change to the border fixed up the paths, added some minor forests and also some scattered craters with the biggest addition being the custom painted sea monster.

I'm thinking this is done, if anyone has any final suggestions to improve this I'd love to hear em.

Cheers
Rainer