Hi. It's been a while.

I just started creating a new world map. The first one in, well, forever.

This is a map for a worldbuilding project I call "Gibson City". Essentially, it's a colony settled by humans via FTL slow boat - that is, FTL is "slow", meaning it still took centuries to reach the destination. The world is just a little bit smaller than Earth, and a lot warmer. Water covers 85% of its surface.

I'm using an RPG "icosahedron" projection because it's by far the easiest to work with (IMO). Right now the map aims to be practical first and foremost - I can do beautiful later. First though I need to nail down the geography so I can work on the other aspects of the planet.

WIP is pretty basic. I decided I wanted one large continent, two small continents, and a smattering of islands. I worked out that, very roughly, 1 pixel = 9.6km and placed boxes on the maps that very, VERY roughly correspond to the intended land area of my continents. I'm then eye-balling bringing them into more naturalistic shapes while maintaining the correct area.

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Not much to see yet but I figured it is an essential step.