Looks great. Did you use the treething for the trees? Their placement looks great.
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Dan requested that I create a second landmass, one that was bigger and to the north. He gave me a very rough sketch without so much as a single name. It was basically rectangular with a place in the middle of the southern coast shielded by mountains, and a city in the middle of the east coast with a "natural barrier creating a channel", which I took to mean a choke point, which you can find at South Harbor.
The northeast is "hilly, higher" and there's a sketch of the northwest mountain mass. I took some license. I haven't showed it to Dan yet but I will as I need him to make some edits at this stage. This uses the same faux-Ramah style that I used for Praamador. Your commentary and suggestions are welcome.
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Looks great. Did you use the treething for the trees? Their placement looks great.
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These are beautiful. My only tick (and it's a tiny mostly personal one) is that the forest text is a bit hard to read
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Thanks and yes, tree thing was used. It's a little quirky but it's hard to beat the effect.
I agree on the forest text, but now that you mention it I know it isn't just me.
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I like it so far, but for me the green of the forest clashes with the 'olive' land color.
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Nice work, one critique though, against the somewhat muted background colours the green forests seem to "pop" out a bit too noticeably.
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I worked with my wife to try to tone down the forests (she's not colorblind). I created town markers that are less colorful and smaller than the ones on Praamador.
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I would recommend a half-pixel blur on the forests (and possibly some of the border elements). Everything else is nice and smooth, but the forests are a bit jaggedy and it jars me a bit.
I tried to eliminate the jaggies with marginal success.
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Untitled-1.jpgI think it looks much better with the edges of the trees smoothed slightly. The forests are still distracting for me, though. I think it might be that the trees go much, much darker at their darkest than the mountains do. The mountains are always roughly a mid-gray to light gray; the trees go from near-black to white (paper color). Bringing up the darks on the trees might also reduce the need for the glow on the labels over the forests.
The map as a whole is exceptionally well done (far better than I have done). But, I thought I'd try to see what a little more blur would do to the forests. The attachment shows the original one that I whined about, the updated version, and a little more blur on the forests. The Redwater Woods area is the original without the antialiasing you did; the Darkenwood area is the new revision, and the Thunderwood area. The blur did smooth out the levels in the forests a little, but I'm not sure it was worth the other effects.