Ysi Earth world map II

[hunab.cu]

Wow! The mountains are really nice!

(I just visualised myself making such mountains... and the picture of those hung up on the wall, printed in high-res, as an ideal template... )

[Naeddyr]

These mountains are perfect enough!

[Karro]

These mountains are perfect enough!

The mountains do indeed look good, but a minor nitpick:

The style and appearance of the mountains and the coastlines don't quite gel together for me. The mountains look very hand-drawn, the coasts not so much at the moment. But excellent progress.

[Naeddyr]

The mountains do indeed look good, but a minor nitpick:

The style and appearance of the mountains and the coastlines don't quite gel together for me. The mountains look very hand-drawn, the coasts not so much at the moment. But excellent progress.

Changing the coastline to look hand-drawn would seem problematic, but I have some ideas up my sleeves, many of them complicated. I presume you mean the wavy bits... Man. I'm NOT redrawing them by hand! I can't draw. Systematically. My hands are pseudorandom line generators.

[altasilvapuer]

I wonder what would happen if you desaturated the mountains a little, so they matched the saturation of the coast. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would still look pretty good, I think.

That, or you could lay down penlines in Photoshop/GIMP/etc, and stroke it with a slightly wobbly (technical term?) brush, to make it look hand-drawn without having to hand-draw it. I could explain what I mean better in PS, but I lack the experience with GIMP to translate there.

-asp

[Karro]

Changing the coastline to look hand-drawn would seem problematic, but I have some ideas up my sleeves, many of them complicated. I presume you mean the wavy bits... Man. I'm NOT redrawing them by hand! I can't draw. Systematically. My hands are pseudorandom line generators.

I meant both in terms of color/saturation level (a gray versus the black of the mountains) and in terms of the smoothness of the coasts and the consistency of the coastal waters lines.

I wonder what would happen if you desaturated the mountains a little, so they matched the saturation of the coast. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would still look pretty good, I think.

That, or you could lay down penlines in Photoshop/GIMP/etc, and stroke it with a slightly wobbly (technical term?) brush, to make it look hand-drawn without having to hand-draw it. I could explain what I mean better in PS, but I lack the experience with GIMP to translate there.

-asp

I'm pretty sure it's possible in GIMP as well. RobA did something similar with a map he created in GIMP/Inkscape, so I think he might be able to help with the process. It took very smooth lines like these and turned them into hand-drawn looking lines using the software to do it for him.

[Naeddyr]

i have been working ston-nop for nigh three hours now to give you the scraggly-looking coasts you so desire

don't talk about saturation yet, we're not done here. saturation and stuff comes much later, that's easy as a piece of pie compared to the ordeals i've suffered in the past hours. i had to download POtrace, for goodness' sake, because inkscape couldn't handle to strain

in fact the last couple of hours have been mostly a "gimp and inkscape dying on me and me trying out different combinations to reduce the memory footprint of the images) etc. the final coastline went through a path that is inkscape > gimp > potrace > inkscape > gimp, and that is without the false starts etc. etc.

and it's not even that impressive

i am never listening to you guys again



EDIT:

man and now i'm thinking about how maybe i should redo this completely to get better outlying lin-NO NO I CAST THEE OUT DEMON

EDIT:

Also, should I switch the direction of the sunlight for the other hemisphere. It would make thematic sense, in that the sun rises on the opposite side of the picture there.

[Steel General]

This is coming along quite nicely...bravo!

[overlordchuck]

I love it. Very awesome.

And yes, I rezzed myself to make this statement. Can't remember if I ever repped you for this, so I'll go ahead and do it.

[altasilvapuer]

Actually, I think the ocean borders look quite good like that. The only difference now is the difference in colour depth between mountains and coast. As Karro said, one is more of a (light) grey, and the other is a dark grey/black. Looks great, though! You've been doing quite an amazing job, so far, so I think I'm going to clam up a bit and see where this goes.

-asp