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    Wip [WIP] Earth Colonies on Venus

    There's not much to see yet, but I'm struggling a bit.

    A brief explanation. This is going to be a map for a Steampunkish/Lovecraftian story I pursue where Earth has colonized a (habitable) Venus, similar to the scramble for Africa in the 1880s.

    I prefer overall maps that look "cartographic" vs. "satellite images" (even though the latter look beautiful). For this setting I'll try for something you'd find in a ca. 1900-1910 atlas. Many of those had the lands in white or off-white, with mountains in shaded relief and light blue oceans, political borders either has coloured outline or flat colour with darker outline (i.e. an edge fade).

    Something similar to this, basically.


    I'm currently struggling to get the relief to look right in Campaign Cartographer. I'm using the shaded relied tutorial from one of the Annuals and playing around with it, but I'm not sure I'm getting it the way I want.

    The mountain layout isn't final yet, this is just for checking how it'd look.
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    Last edited by Syt; 07-04-2009 at 04:28 PM.

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