Godspeed
Starting out on a new mapping adventure. I wanted to create a galactic map for a RPG setting in the making just to get a feel. These regions and names are placeholders and can be changed "easily". The milkyway image I painted some time ago so why not put it to use. Hope this is going to work. Updates will be slow because creation is an ongoing work with a friend of mine and we canīt meet too often because of RL.
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Excellent solution to an old problem. I'd be happy to follow this.
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Magical word is "Smart Object" in Photoshop CS6, donīt know about older versions. I can work on my flat topdown image and just update the distortet version. As it is a smart object I can distort and scale as I like, the image never degrades as it is alway calculated from the original base image. Pretty neat software solution to make my life easier.
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I believe that Smart Objects were introduced with CS2, and Smart Filters in CS3.Originally Posted by Troedel
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
Great start Troedel, I'm gonna watch this with interest! And seeing your explanation just makes me jealous of PS CS6...
I don't have PS. Does something similar exists in Gimp?
I believe so, so many plugins for GIMP now. If i find it, ill hook you guys up.
Darcy
Map Object and map to a plane.
Although this conversation was actually really vague so I'm not 100% sure what you are actually taking about.
An alternative method would be to use a 3D graphics package (like Anim8or or Blender). Use the flat map as a surface texture on a flat object and tilt it any way you want before rendering.
Selden
Some iteration, zoomed in a bit, some fiddeling here and there....
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