Veidrheim WIP ---- From Map to Globe

[waldronate]

The idea is to take your map the way that you have it and tell a piece of software that it's already in the output projection that you want. Then you sample that projection back to something like Equirectangular and it's easy to feed it into any number of projecting programs.

In this case, I used my ancient ReprojectImage program ( http://www.fracterra.com/ReprojectImage.exe ) to do the basic Equirectangular map. I set the projection to Orthographic, latitude to -45, and scale to 2. Then I output it as a 4096-wide image to get the Equirectangular output, which I fed into Fractal Terrains from ProFantasy ( https://secure.profantasy.com/products/ft.asp ) with the Natural Earth data ( https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/ ) physical raster image for the Earth background.

There are many pieces of software on the internet that can do this sort of thing. GDAL should be able to do it if you're into command-line things and QGIS should also work.