Feedback for new mapper

[Michaelk]

Is that an actual map projection I spy there.

This looks good, it looks mappy, but not too mappy. Not if you're mappy and you know it clap your hands mappy, but an understated kind of felt mappy.

Thankyou.

It's a Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection. (I love Fractal Terrains).

[Ascension]

Two things; 1 welcome. 2 your rivers need to be more squiggly. C it is perfectly clear to me. 82cpartV nice job so far.

[Michaelk]

Two things; 1 welcome. 2 your rivers need to be more squiggly. C it is perfectly clear to me. 82cpartV nice job so far.

Squiggly rivers... check.

[Korba]

Nice map Michaelk

I presume you are going from the dark areas (uplands) and across the plains and through a desert area so a couple of tips.

Upland rivers tend to be quite straight so less squiggles as the water enters a flatter area it begins to meander so this will be the area to have large bends and turns like this Nice Example.


My second suggestion would be to vary the size of you river slightly so make the rivers at the start smaller and then get larger as the streams merge. You can then also reduce the size of the river as is crosses the desert area as water is lost to evaporation.

Just my 2-cents but for me it would make the river system look more realistic.

Korba

[Michaelk]

as the water enters a flatter area it begins to meander so this will be the area to have large bends and turns like this Nice Example.

Damn. Now that's what I call meandering.

My second suggestion would be to vary the size of you river slightly so make the rivers at the start smaller and then get larger as the streams merge. You can then also reduce the size of the river as is crosses the desert area as water is lost to evaporation.

Good ideas.

Just my 2-cents but for me it would make the river system look more realistic.

Thankyou, rivers are difficult. I think you've got some good ideas here, so I'll look into implementing them.

Also, unrelated to that, I've been fooling around with the larger regional map and made something a bit fun. Less functional perhaps, but pretty (I think it looks like a souvenir fridge magnet personally).

[Michaelk]

Just my 2-cents but for me it would make the river system look more realistic.

Thankyou for the advice. I've just given it another try and I hope it's worked out well. I'll admit, it does look a lot better to me after implementing your suggestions.

[Ascension]

You left out one other adjective...awesome. Fridge magnet or not it looks colorful and fun.