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    Wip [WIP] The World of Gythea - globe/regions/countries/climate/cultures ect.

    Hi,

    I've decided to start a new theard about my own fantasy world - Gythea, because my project has started to be a huuuge worldbuilding adventure. My goal is to create a very immersive, real looking fantasy world which is full of nations, cultures and stories.

    Here you can see some maps, which I've created already

    The globe with a simplified topographic map of oceans:

    Post nr19 - Oceany (topografia) - Wagner VII.png

    Poles:

    Post nr 8 - BIegun(NS).png

    Some regional maps [WIP]:

    Post nr 5 - Gythea (MI) Cassini.png

    Post nr 9 - Morza równikowe + ocean - Orthographic.png

    The view on the biggest ocean:

    Post nr10 - Ocean - Mollweide II.png

    Thermohaline circulation:

    Post nr12 - Cyrkulacja oceanów v2.png

    Ocean currents:

    Post nr13 - Prądy morskie.png

    Extras

    The calendar

    Post nr16 - Kalendarz ENG.png

    Post nr18 - Kalendarz ENG.png

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    Nice job, I would pay more attention to the circulation of the ocean currents as I believe there could be some nderwater continental shelves that could block the passage of current especially in the narrow passages and thus allowing more circular cycles than passages.

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    For several months I have been working on the beginning of my huuuge cartographic project which is the altas of my personal world - Gythea. It was an intense few months but I can slowly start to show you what I have created. At the beginning I would like to show you the general legend for my future maps and the basic information about the world. I hope you enjoy!

    Legenda 1.0 ENGLISH.png

    You can see more on my Patreon. Every publication has english description below the polish one: https://www.patreon.com/Sthenastia
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    The Kingdom of Haalthan

    This is my first detailed regional map from my universum. I hope you enjoy!

    Haalthan ENG + Znak Wodny.png

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sthenastia View Post
    The Kingdom of Haalthan

    This is my first detailed regional map from my universum. I hope you enjoy!

    Haalthan ENG + Znak Wodny.png
    It's a great map, with tons of impressive detail! Your rivers seem to behave perfectly well too. All in all a gorgeous map to wander around on. All it lacks is a legend explaining the height colours, but I'm sure that can be easily fixed.

    A tip for future maps (or maybe an update of this map): have you ever considered adding shaded relief to the terrain? Shouldn't be too difficult since you already have the contour lines: just turn these colours in different levels of grey (black for sea level, white for the tippy tops of the mountains) and pull that through Photoshop's Lighting Effects. I can give a more detailed overview of the process if you're interested. If you go this route though, know that you'll have to blur the end result a fair bit to get rid of the inevitable steps, bit it might still be worth the hassle. Certainly worth the try: if it's underwhelming you know you can just leave it off, and if it does indeed add something you can go and do this for all your future maps too!
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    Your work is amazing, I love the info/regional map, and love the shapes in the world map. Did you base your world on Tectonics or just from scratch?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stěophan View Post
    Your work is amazing, I love the info/regional map, and love the shapes in the world map. Did you base your world on Tectonics or just from scratch?
    I try to balance both things in my work My goal is to create the most reliable world as possible, but with the fantasy elements.

    Today I want to show you my new map of the southern neighbour of Haalthan - Fartisia.

    Fartyzja ENG Znak.png

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    Love the progress on this so far! These atlas maps really always inspire me to do more of my own mapping. That's a great style and I love all the info added to the maps. That said, perhaps it would make sense to have a different country name than... Fartisia? Maybe I'm just too immature for this forum but I can't help but snicker just a little bit whenever I read the name of the country or the language.

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    I second that, must admit I had a wee snicker too lol. However I love the overall style and colours you use. I was wondering do you just make your names up from scratch or do you have any inspiration from elsewhere?

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