Reply With QuoteNice. For folds in the map, I'd ask Ramah or Ascensions, they've put nice folds into their maps before.
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Second one (and third one) is my attempts to fold and bend it up but I'm not 100% sure what to do. Are there any tutorials for this?
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Nice. For folds in the map, I'd ask Ramah or Ascensions, they've put nice folds into their maps before.
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All I do for folds is take a blank sheet of paper, fold it, then stress out the folds working it with your fingers - so it doesn't look like fresh, crisp folds. I'm a smoker, so then I throw some cigarette ashes on it, rub it into the folds, then take a clean rag and try to remove as much ash residue as possible. Then I scan it convert to transparent PNG (or use the stain-glass filter in Xara, which isn't available in most apps, certainly not GIMP) and you've got a realistic map with folds. I am sure there are more graphics only techniques, but I find working with the real thing more effective...
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RobA's parchment tutorial has some here. Also Gamerprinter's technique is one I've seen used a lot in discussions on the web. I think the thing was to use a displace map filter with the scan of your folds on your image.
I did a tut on folds but apparently it was technically incorrect, there is also another folds tut somewhere in there. Mostly, I just use the paper pack by Coyotemax and either desaturate it or set the blend mode to color. Far easier to do that
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