New WIP by GW - Un-named Regional Map

[Greason Wolfe]

So I've been mostly absent these last few month dealing with family issues (my grandmother's declining health and eventual passing on July 1st) and haven't really had much time to work on maps, or anything creative, for that matter. Now that things have settled down, I've managed to get back to work on a new project based loosely on Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince/Dragon Star series with a smattering of The Witcher tossed in just to shake things up some. I haven't come up with a name for the project just yet, but I've worked out the basic map.

This preliminary render will probably end up being used as a reference with a goal of achieving something similar to what I accomplished with my Brewhome Challenge Map some months back ( http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...s-of-the-World ). I had thought, perhaps, to follow through with the Terragen rendering approach, but have been having a bit of difficulty blending the lower slopes into the flatter areas. It's possible that applying an Exponent via Wilbur may solve this problem, seeing as how most of the terrain building has been accomplished in Wilbur, but I'll have to work out a few selection masks just to make sure I don't lose too many mountains along the way.

In any event, here's what I have so far. I may need to be a little more aggressive with the rendering angle, but I'll have to wait to see how things work out once I've solved the blending problem.

GW