Another tryout - a success I think

[MadLetter]

Heya folks!

An mostly-finished map for you here, another try for another style (I'm currently expanding on a multitude of possible styles), which I think I will most-definitely use in the upcoming times.

The map is dedicated to our forum-user pasis, as I made it with his indirect help. His tutorial is "Teh Awesum" and yields excellent results.

I might want to add, I did a few additional things. For one, I used my own style of planting forests and for another I added some more ground-textures, vaguely with only little opacity, to add diversity.

What do you think?

[Steel General]

It looks nice, though the text over the forest is nearly unreadable.

[töff]

Very nice. Looks similar to the photoshop-layering style that I have had a little success with.

I think your individual trees are way outta scale with the mountains and sea, though. Either you have a planet with 22-mile-wide trees ... or you have not mountains and a sea, but a hill and a puddle.

[MadLetter]

Agreed on the trees... in my next tryout with this style I will reduce the trees... but a single "dot" could just as well stand for a bunch of trees, too... Just sayin'

Here's another picture, a further developed version of this map.

[MadLetter]

A second, far better map (my opinion obviously) with this style.

[guyanonymous]

I think it's looking great. I like the feel of your water texture. It's very painterly to me.

[MadLetter]

Thanks, but that compliment has to be advanced to the forum-user Pasis, from whose tutorial I copied the texture and made it seamlessly tiling... the highlights are self-added (the white and dark-blue in the rivers).

[Ascension]

Looks great young grasshoppah. As to the text, try a different color over the dark areas or use a solid stroke (sufficiently wide enough to be seen) in a color that matches the sand (not something like red).

[pasis]

Way to go Madletter...these are looking great waiting to see more. I'm a bit concerned about the forest though as the trees do look a bit like single trees eventhough representing a group of trees. Maybe you could try to have more dense forests and use this "light" forest as a extra in some areas to spice things up. But all in all looking good...

[Hoel]

Great style!
I like the separate trees, looks realistisc enough