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08-22-2024, 05:54 PM
It's the result of running the erosion effect on a standard black and white stencil font. Stencil fonts have the nice property that they don't have...
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08-16-2024, 12:00 PM
I don't use the royal color scheme (purple + gold) much, but it's fun for abstract stuff. The generic altitude version would look more like this:
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08-15-2024, 12:55 PM
Because I can only do one thing.
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08-13-2024, 11:15 AM
It's a lighted distance field from the wavy edges of the mountains. Your software might call it any number of things (Bevel is a popular term), but...
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wthrasherb on 03-29-2015 at 01:27 PM
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Howdy folks! Typically on the weekends I try to work on fun/rpg related material... something leisurely at any rate. Friday night I decided to try to create a new map in the style of my World of Aerdlon map (found
here).
The first part is fairly easy since I'm just doing the initial "shaping" in Fractal Terrains 3 and Wilbur. I actually spend more time waiting on the computer to render/process stuff at this stage more than anything else, but it is still a lengthy process,
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wthrasherb on 03-20-2015 at 12:54 PM
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I thought I should make at least some kind of progress post even though I haven't made it very far since my last post. This week has been extra busy and I haven't had much time to work on the fun stuff
Anyway, I'm still working on the World level for this map right now (although after this post I'm going to start work on a more detailed region). The last version I posted was an Equirectangular or Cylindrical Equidistant (and technically Plate Carree) map projection. Today I'm posting
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wthrasherb on 03-15-2015 at 01:27 PM
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I'm proud to present this map today. For anyone who has been following along, I've been focusing on the ocean and finding some kind of blending that works for me. Consider it done. I added some "grungy" texturing and more Photoshop magic and got the following result. I also touched up some coloring in some areas to add some subtle variations. The first image here is just the map image. The second image is the map with a border and "cartouche" and I added a canvas texture to give
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wthrasherb on 03-14-2015 at 12:45 AM
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Ok, so I lied earlier when I said I was done with the color. I thought the last one was just a little too dark, so I adjusted the brightness and a few things to brighten up the overall picture.
Any input, especially about tje color, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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wthrasherb on 03-13-2015 at 02:09 PM
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I think I really like this one and that may be it, I may be done with the coloring. I can really feel the world coming to life now.
I felt like the colors were a little too washed out in the last version, so I took a break and brainstormed away from the computer and the map. Eventually an idea popped into my head, so I grabbed my phone to take a look at the map. For some reason I decided to toy with the simple editing tools and filters on my phone and some how found one that I thought
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