WIP - an as-yet unnamed region

[Diamond]

Wow, Sadist, could you have made that any harder to read?

But I do agree with you; I think the rivers look fine.

[Scotia]

@torstan: Thanks for the suggestion. I got back from the cottage very late last night (note to self: a set of carefully prepared and detailed plans to build a large deck on uneven ground does not in any way make the darned thing any easier to build!) and had to wait until this morning before I could start tinkering. I've come up with something that might do the trick rather nicely...it's a lay mask for the "hard bump" layer to mask the rivers (and ~15 pixels to either side of them) to blend the hard bump with the soft bump...almost like making a separate "medium bump river" layer. I generated the mask doing roughly what you suggested and then tinkered a bit by hand from there. The change is subtle but does reduce the emphasis of the harsher river bumps but still has them stand out more than they would if I used only the soft bump.

Here's the result, which I'm pretty happy with.

[torstan]

Very nice - it looks good. Looking forward to seeing the next stage.

I sympathise on the decking - it takes a lot of time and care to get those flat even on pretty even ground. Hope it went well in the end.

[Sadist]

Wow, Sadist, could you have made that any harder to read?

But I do agree with you; I think the rivers look fine.

oops
sorry...
I was using my girlfriend's computer, and the default language is Chinese...very frustrating because the language keeps doing funny things...
I can't even read what I posted

[Scotia]

Desert/arid zones and forested areas now added, plus I made a few additional tweaks to various other layers to smooth things out. This should now be more or less my finished terrain base map for placing settlements, "roads", etc.