September/October 2014 Lite Challenge: Lake of Tears

[Francissimo]

The lake of Tears have seen many human cities rise and fall and after thousands of years of civilisation and war, the actual cities are often built near the ruins of previous civilisations..
Hello fellow cartographers! for that map i start with a digital elevation model of an existing lake and realised an hillshade of it using QGIS then wilbur
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[SJS]

Very cool. The 3D just pops on this one.

[Bogie]

Fantastic!

[EricPoehlsen]

Wow, great textures!

[Francissimo]

Thanks guys, really appreciate that kind of feedback! And i'll also enjoy some critics if you feel things need to be improved
On that one i worked on cities, trees ans rivers:
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[SJS]

What do we have there... sunken ruins?

[Francissimo]

you found it

[Corilliant]

Oh, those textures are going to be hard to beat
Nice job so far!

[Francissimo]

Thanks Corilliant
an updated wip with additional work on ruined places
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[Corilliant]

Interesting, a river bed within the eastern part of the lake. Didn't see that before
Is the river at the bottom of the map incomplete? For a river that size it either comes from an underground source or it's missing a few tributaries...?