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Originally Posted by Miska I’ve started to experiment a bit more with color maps. I must admit that I got really inspired by the maps of Mike Schley as most – if not all – of his maps are color maps (he also does amazing cutout views). I’ll try to color at least a map or two per month and I believe these will be more useful, well, at least better looking, on virtual tabletops likeroll20. Also, this map is one of my few encounter maps. I might also add some more of these to my portfolio over time. ...
Originally Posted by Miska What looks like a dull and ill kept old stone keep hides a beautiful garden and a giant statue made of gold inside its cold walls. But like its outer appearance, everything in this temple is not as it looks. — Originally I drew this temple to try out two things: a sort of inner yard and thick castle walls. The inner yard as such is not a problem, but the walls. Oh, the walls... I don’t know why, but I find ...
Hi, I have been mapping the Darklands these past few days. My campaign will be travelling through them and I wanted a visual. Here's what I got so far:
Ok, I have completed the first phase: Created a GIS with a GCS-WGS-1984 projectionConverted the map from the Inner Sea Map Folio from PDF to JPG Imported them into ArcmapUsing the Golarion map from the Inner Sea World Guide as a guide, I georeferenced the four images. The scalar given on the map is 100% correct at the equator.From this basemap:Digitized rivers: All of them. 15/167 are unnamed Attributes: Name, Watershed, Length, Direction, ...
Updated 06-02-2016 at 07:22 PM by Triceratops
This project has taken a few unexpected turns. I spent a lot of time wracking my brain over the issue of scale bars. Almost all of the maps given in the Paizo material has a scale bar. Presumably, Paizo has the Inner Sea map saved in a way that allows them to capture regions and zoom in. One would further assume that of they were matched up in the right projection, in the right geographic area, that they would all agree. I have found this to be impossible to reconcile. ...
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