When you modify curves, etc... you need to unselect the selection, did you do it?
Last edited by DragonLord; 01-06-2013 at 06:13 PM.
Hi Holdenburg,Originally Posted by Holdenburg
If I had to guess, you're missing a mask on the mountain layer(s). The mountain techniques I use include a mask on the color and bump map layers associated with the mountains. Without them they don't blend well at all, and you could expect to see something like this.
Hey there folks, thanks a lot for the compliments and thanks for using my revision of RobA's tutorial. Unfortunately I am in school during the fall and spring and working fulltime all year, so the only time I really get a chance to work on my cartography is during winter break and the summer. I'll try to go through the posts here and see if I can clarify some of the steps where people were having problems. I'll post the revision when I get it done.
Thanks again! And happy mapping!
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Seashore result.jpgI'm working through the revised (wisemoon) tutorial, referring back to the original (RobA). Step references here are for the former. I can get as far as completing the sea, which leaves me with a solid blue landmass and a sea that is darker near the shore than in deeper water. When I try to start "Building up the Landmass," I get a blend of the green with the solid blue that making the sea left on the land. I've been carefully following the tutorial about six times in a row, and I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Last edited by triarius; 04-28-2015 at 05:09 PM.
Hi, I feel like a bit of an idiot, but I'm getting stuck on the land mask and sea shape steps. I don't get a gradient when adjusting the pixel size, just a flat white screen. Super frustrating, I'm pretty sure I followed what the tutorial said word for word, and yet nothing. Any idea what I could be doing wrong?
Could you be a little more specific about what step you are at and what you are doing?
Steps 19-23 of part 1, and, so far, all of the beginning of part 2. I'm using Gimp 2.8, and I think it's to create the sea?
I still cannot follow you... you need to be more precise. You said that you didn't get a gradient "when adjusting the pixel size". What pixel size were you adjusting, at what step? I guess it is one of the Gaussian Blurs, but I just went through the whole process and cannot find any problems.
Part 2, step 4, that gradient. I just get a white or black field all across the preview window.
Hm. The preview window shows just a small part of your image. What happens when you apply the Gaussian Blur?
This is what should happen.
You have an active layer with a pure black and white shape of your land and sea, right? You have no active selection. You apply a Gaussian Blur, with a rather big value (800 was the value given in the tutorial.)
This should, well... blur between the black and white, resulting in a rather smooth gradient all over your image.
What happens instead?
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