The Dal Lands

[LonewandererD]

UPDATE!

The green is gone, at least for now , in the meantime I've put in all of the mountains. Now I'm looking into improving my rather simple parchment texture and reducing the overall memory size of the piece, it went from being very small at high settings to large at medium settings, ouch. The mountain brushes are not of my creation are the brushes that vhailor27 made from Ramah's map, all credit goes to those two artists.

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[tilt]

looking good.. and those mountains of Ramah are damn beautiful, no wonder so many use them ... and no river violations either - eventhough I had to look closely at one place to follow the flows, but everything is ok - and thank you for removing the greeeeeeen *LOL*

[Juggernaut1981]

That's a good looking start dude. I didn't spot any River Violations and the lack of green is nicer on the eyes... at least until the giant blocks of colour are broken up more by adding in the details.

[LonewandererD]

Do not worry, the green will be back, MWUHAHAHAHAHA >:)

In the meantime, update!. I've put in the hills and reduce the map by a quarter of it's size to reduce the overall memory size of the map, really did the trick. Next I'll be redoing the rivers and putting in the forests. More to come soon.

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[tilt]

still looking good - thats a lot of hills you've got there... got'a rest that hand soon *lol*

[LonewandererD]

No update, just a note. This map is being put on hold, the style is still new to me and will take some time before I've gotten the hang of it and experimented with it. Until then I'm moving towards some other maps using my more succesful style, I like what did with the Dominion of Sorres and hope to replicate that kind of look again.

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[LonewandererD]

BEWARE, the green is back, well sort of. Taken off hold for the moment.

Heres the last of land-based planning, the dark green are pine forests, the light green is deciduous forests, the yellow green is grassland and the light blue is marshland. Still not sure about the forests up near the territories of the Daesurru and Sunnuku. On that note I've drawn in the rough borders of the clans, the areas with a black dots represent areas not controlled by the Dal. Note a typo, Dae-sunnu on the map is supposed to be Daesurru

The other two pics are the symbols for each of the dominions. The first one is the hand-drawn version, the symbols that will appear along with this map, the second one are the symbols that will appear along with the maps of the individual dominions that I'll do later down the track.

More to come soon.

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[tilt]

very nice symbols ... and the map is still looking good ... it was a short pause you took

[LonewandererD]

Yes it was a short pause. The main reason I paused is becuase I couldn't figure out to get the automatic forester to work the way I wanted, well that just changed so the Dal lands should have a sudden tree explosion very soon.

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[LonewandererD]

TREE OVERLOAD!

I've put down all the trees and now I'm going back to cleanup and, unfortunately, redo the hills which i can butchered by accident.

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