Joining the bandwagon -- MiddleEarth

[J.Edward]

It looks good. I quite like the Rhun sea and Nurnen sea areas. Nurnen looks a bit big but still looks good.
3d text could be interesting but probably more problematic than 2d text on top.
It could be interesting to have the text coming up from the ground, but not as the ground itself. Not sure if that sounds understandable.
Yes to Fringe text. If you did a tilted perspective view then the Fringe text would look pretty cool I think.

[Redrobes]

Very cool. Will be checking back with some interest. Blender mesh must be awfully large....

[johnvanvliet]

the mesh is a 2048 subdivided displacement map
2050x2050 grid ( 4,202,500 vertexes) so with UV mapping it is 604 Meg
not really all that big

this is also only HALF resolution each vertex equals a group of 4 pixels on the DEM

[johnvanvliet]

update
The Sea of Nurnen was a bit big

redid the colorizing ( colorizing a B & W heightmap is fun)

except for some touch up i think i will use this
then on to adding location names

-- 3d render with the viewpoint above the center
click on or full image ( 4096 x 2965 px )

[J.Edward]

It's looking good.
You kind of visually lose some of the rivers in there.
Do you plan to do any color adjustment?
Just some way to get a bit more clarity on the rivers might help.

edit - this would look really good rendered in Vue or Terragen.

[Diamond]

Awesome work so far; I really love the intricacy of this. I'm with J.Ed on the rivers though, it's really hard to make out details on some of them, especially around the Mouths of the Entwash.

[johnvanvliet]

red ??? might just stay with white - Blender



still need to settle on a font and style and shadow for the text in Inkscape
( Entwash cleaned up )
full size = 4096x2965

[johnvanvliet]

not forgotten just busy

[su_liam]

red ??? might just stay with white - Blender

My apologies. I didn't understand what you were saying here.