AERLAAN – A playground built for a muse

[PaGaN]

Hi Azelor.

I'm in Canada but originally from the UK where we still use weirdo Imperial systems like feet and inches, stones and pounds etc...LOL

I never thought about the impact fur following your guide. I'll switch to metres and with your above advice, I will stop defining elevation at 6000m.

When I actually get to rendering the map I'm not going to be going for an atlas style like Pixie or Charerg (way too intimidated by the insane amount of work and results that they have achieved). I will either go for a painted style or a classic Jonathan Roberts style map, not decided yet.

Regardless, just need enough detail to figure out the climate

[KonpekiUmi]

Great work. I imagine plate tectonics are the most difficult part of map making, especially when you have to do it all from scratch.

[PaGaN]

Great work. I imagine plate tectonics are the most difficult part of map making, especially when you have to do it all from scratch.

Thanks KonpeckiUmi and welcome to the Guild! Yes, Tectonics is definitely one of those things that is probably best gotten into with an initial naivete and ignorance of what is actually required because, quite honestly, if someone had told me all of the things i'd have to read up on in order to get through it i might well have just given up. THANKFULLY i was bolstered and encouraged by the excellent peeps around here and i had Kacey, my Tectonic Twin, going through it with me as Kacey was working through the tectonics for The Unexplored Land (Check out Kacey's thread here)

@Kacey: I'm working on the elevation now, this is a whole other hill to climb...LOL. Re: weirdo measurements, i'm with you on the meters, i think i just mentally approximate a meter to 3', i know that's not right but whatever. BUT there is NO WAY i think i'll ever be able to guage km. I'm a miles person. For the climate i will sacrifice my comfort and work in meters for Azelor's guide as i want to avoid any extra confusion if you get what i mean...LOL.

I loved your treatment of the mountains for The Unexplored Land by the way, great use of layer styles, you're definity onto something there, looks really cool