Quote Originally Posted by Diamond View Post
That's very nice. I liked the first one too, but this one is far superior. One thing - do the different colors just represent different general terrain areas, or are the darker greens actual forests? If they are forests, you might try adding some kind of vegetation patterning to make it more obvious. Anyway, it's awesome and the end product will I'm sure be fantastic. Have some rep.
The colour gradients are meant as representations of the climate - so greens are grasses, yellowish colours plains, browns and oranges are deserts, white is ice, and the greyish greens are tundra.

I'm trying to capture most climate types in one continent for variety, while still keeping it as plausible as I can.