Torn Island - a first low res draft

[WoroRelu]

Is there a possibility of you bringing it into a vector program and tracing over it? If you have Adobe Illustrator maybe try the live trace feature as a start??

[wildcode]

Is there a possibility of you bringing it into a vector program and tracing over it? If you have Adobe Illustrator maybe try the live trace feature as a start??

No I dont have that but perhaps Inkscape would do?

And further on the topic; which resolution should I aim for in a hires version? If I should ever do a printout it would probably as most be at the size of A3 (297 mm × 420 mm).

I am planning on having quite a detailed map and my computer is relatively competent (i5 2500K, GTX570, SSD and 16GB RAM - I dont know which part that is the bottleneck) but there are probably practical limits.

And also; I did a little frame using Arsheesh guide. I think I messed up somewhere because it is not as pretty as that in the guide However it will do for now; I will practice more on frames later on.

The next step is to add more details to the map and a compass and such; hence the displaced positioning of the island.

Regards
-wildcode

TornIslandFrame.png

[WoroRelu]

Hmm.. whenever I was working on stuff to be printed (keep in mind this was 5 years ago - i don't know any standards now) 100 dpi was good for a general color print, 300 dpi was good for a high quality print and continued editing. might wait for another opinion or two besides mine though, or search the forum. and inkscape should be fine, i just don't know if inkscape has a feature similar to the live trace feature (I'm lazy, so I preferred the route that had the machine doing as much work as possible) although learning how to do vector linework is a good practice in itself - when I tutored in illustrator one of the first exercises we had them do before starting their own projects were learning how to manipulate the bezier curves, and then value differentiation/mapping of grayscale images, to better their ability to distinguish and identify lighting/shading differences. We would actually use an old grey-scale image of bezier himself.

[wildcode]

Hmm.. whenever I was working on stuff to be printed (keep in mind this was 5 years ago - i don't know any standards now) 100 dpi was good for a general color print, 300 dpi was good for a high quality print and continued editing. might wait for another opinion or two besides mine though, or search the forum. and inkscape should be fine, i just don't know if inkscape has a feature similar to the live trace feature (I'm lazy, so I preferred the route that had the machine doing as much work as possible) although learning how to do vector linework is a good practice in itself - when I tutored in illustrator one of the first exercises we had them do before starting their own projects were learning how to manipulate the bezier curves, and then value differentiation/mapping of grayscale images, to better their ability to distinguish and identify lighting/shading differences. We would actually use an old grey-scale image of bezier himself.

Ok, good I'll promise not to hold this against you I will do some searching too.

Thank you for your insights; I have yet to get bored by tracing so Ill try the tedious method first.

[wildcode]

Now I am working on getting map details as names, distance ruler and such. I failed doing a compass so I scrapped that for now

This is the work so far; I think it is tricky to have a natural looking map with name plates on it; but I am fairly satisfied with the city names. This is where my inexperience shines through so all advice is welcome.

I have added som griddy-shady-thing where the cities are; but I will try to enhance them in some way.

Well; here goes:

TornIslandFrameNames.png

[- Max -]

Would makes more sense if your scale bar match the scale border...

[PapersAndPaychecks]

Here's a quick and simple compass that you can use. (Or anyone else, if they want: I hereby release this file, which represents 5 entire minutes of my time, into the public domain for anyone to use without restriction).

Compass.svg

[wildcode]

Would makes more sense if your scale bar match the scale border...

You mean the color/texture? Yeah, I was thinking of doing a wooden frame in the same style so I will do that.

The scale "ruler" (it is unclear if it was both color and scales you meant) are half that of the border; and the position is not final. It is now right aligned with the border scale (second from right) and it don't look good. I will lengthen it by one half of the borders so there is a better alignment. And try some new positioning.

Thanks for the feedback!

[- Max -]

I meant the size of the scales, different between scale bar and scale border. So yea, they should be the same length to serve their purpose

[wildcode]

Here's a quick and simple compass that you can use. (Or anyone else, if they want: I hereby release this file, which represents 5 entire minutes of my time, into the public domain for anyone to use without restriction).

Compass.svg

Thanks, I'll play around with it to see if I can get the colors right. I'll post a small update here where I did a quickfix of things. Still have to fix with the frame/border to match the wooden look. And fiddle with tha compass. And bits and pieces

TornIslandFrameNamesv2.png