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    Map Baedern

    This is my first try with a planet moon. I think the terrain looks good, but I accept tips for the next time. :)

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    I think it's a good start, and overall the color scheme gives a stark, almost grim atmosphere (or lack thereof).

    But the terrain feels very repetitive and much too regular on a hemispheric scale, at least compared with the bodies we're familiar with in our own solar system. Take a look at the recently-compiled map of Pluto from this summer's New Horizons flyby, as well as Jupiter's four Galilean moons and our own Moon. Their features are often irregular, asymmetric on a grand scale, the products of conflicting processes layered through deep geological time.

    These are often very active worlds, and even the more passive moons are still subject to outside forces, from tidal flexing to random battering from meteorites of all sizes. Try looking at the features of worlds like Charon, Ganymede, Mercury, and the many moons of Saturn, and see if you can incorporate some of the unique and peculiar features to be found among them. That would help give your moon a distinctive feel and its own unique geological personality.

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    I fully agree with Sanderling : more terrain diversity (and color, even slightly) would make it much more effective.

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