Alu'kesh Dragonlands

[Neyjour]

This is awesome!! I haven't really looked at it since now.

Love the composition and all the extra flares to it, the circle thingies with that script, the border, rhumb lines....

Josiah, thanks so much!

[Bogie]

Excellent Map!! The mountains are great.

[Neyjour]

Excellent Map!! The mountains are great.

Thanks Bogie!

[Neyjour]

I'm adding more terrain features, and I would really appreciate some opinions please...

This area is going to be a crystal field, with some type of crystal texture overlay (haven't decided what to use for that yet...) to give the impression of a large field of small crystals covering the ground, with a few larger, scattered formations (the clusters seen here).

I really like the look of the blue crystals and how they blend with the terrain colour, but I'm a bit worried about how they don't really match well with the style and colour of the mountains. My question is, do you think it matters? Should I leave them blue? Or should I change them to blue-black with no dropshadow? (I've included a single example of this in the image).

Alu'kesh Dragonlands (crystals test).PNG

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EDIT - Here's a full comparison:

Alu'kesh Dragonlands (crystals blue).PNG

Alu'kesh Dragonlands (crystals blue-black).PNG

[Neyjour]

* Changed the colour of the rivers
* Made the mountains a little bit darker and applied a very tiny Gaussian Blur to soften the hard lines
* Added a crystal field

Alu'kesh Dragonlands WIP 06 by Neyjour.png

[Ilanthar]

I like the color palette and the mystic polygons, and I love the dragons and illustrations. Great map so far.
The only thing I really don't like is the obviously computer-generated coastline (not the land shapes, the constant irregularity of the line).

[Neyjour]

I like the color palette and the mystic polygons, and I love the dragons and illustrations. Great map so far.
The only thing I really don't like is the obviously computer-generated coastline (not the land shapes, the constant irregularity of the line).

Thanks Ilanthar.

Yeah, it seems the coastlines are not to everyone's taste.



* Removed two of the craters (on the larger continent)
* Removed the rivers
* Added two more crystal fields
* Added some ice webbing textures
* Added a terrain/feature legend

Alu'kesh Dragonlands FINAL WIP by Neyjour.png

I'm going to call this done.
The Finished Maps thread is HERE