My world - The Everlandias

[LonewandererD]

Thnx, I have on Koppen around here somewhere but could never really get into it, suppose I'll have to get into now, should be a great help. Thnx for reminding.

You know, I've heard it sung in song but have never really took it seriously but Australia really does look like it's sunburnt. "I love a sunburnt country!"

-D-

[Karro]

Well, I can't put this in Aussie terms (I'm a USian, myself), but I think your arid grasslands that you see mostly in 5 and 3 would extend upward further into 6 and 7 possibly even 10. Not that USian terms will help, but I'm thinking how the Great Plains extend over a very wide portion of the interior of the US and you get arid "badlands" up in the Dakotas. You would still have temperate forests on either side in 6/8 and 9/12

[LonewandererD]

Not a bad idea Karro, I did want a grassland orientated culture and now I know where to put it.

Don't worry about using USian terms, quite a bit of my inspiration for Khazardia came from looking at some maps of the US, mostly the southern/central regions.

-D-

[Karro]

Glad I was able to help!

[LonewandererD]

My first maps never survive for long and Khazardia was no expection as I'm now working on Khazardia mark 2. Mark 1 lack that sense of scale I really wanted. I'm going to recycle a lot of mark 1 for mark but ultimately its going to be bigger, large to extend from the equator and past the polar circle, about 5000 miles from north to south and 8000 miles from east to west. Also, mark 2 is going to be broken up more, with more bodies of water cutting into the land; mark 1 was just too blocky for me. The idea is that a large that is already broken up will be easier to split into smaller regions. The regions of Adallia (of which there are 3) we broken up by political borders whereas the regions of khazardia need to be broken up by geographical borders, i.e. The Talumachi City States are seperated from the Cynnagul Lands by the Cynan Straights.

Enough of that, I has a question. I know that rain can block wind and any rain it carries, thus forming rainshadows, but can the mountains also redirect rain? If i have wind coming down from the north bearing rain and it hits a mountain range that is angle down to the southeast would the rain then be directed down to the southeast?

Also, does any know how to make convincing looking ice/ice caps in photoshop?

-D-

[Karro]

My first maps never survive for long and Khazardia was no expection as I'm now working on Khazardia mark 2. Mark 1 lack that sense of scale I really wanted. I'm going to recycle a lot of mark 1 for mark but ultimately its going to be bigger, large to extend from the equator and past the polar circle, about 5000 miles from north to south and 8000 miles from east to west. Also, mark 2 is going to be broken up more, with more bodies of water cutting into the land; mark 1 was just too blocky for me. The idea is that a large that is already broken up will be easier to split into smaller regions. The regions of Adallia (of which there are 3) we broken up by political borders whereas the regions of khazardia need to be broken up by geographical borders, i.e. The Talumachi City States are seperated from the Cynnagul Lands by the Cynan Straights.

Enough of that, I has a question. I know that rain can block wind and any rain it carries, thus forming rainshadows, but can the mountains also redirect rain? If i have wind coming down from the north bearing rain and it hits a mountain range that is angle down to the southeast would the rain then be directed down to the southeast?

Also, does any know how to make convincing looking ice/ice caps in photoshop?

-D-

I'm not 100% on this but I believe what happens is that the wet air starts cooling as it comes up over the mountains. As it cools, the water in the air condenses grows heavy, and falls. Because of this, the windward side of the mountain will get a lot of rain/precipitation and the leeward side will get relatively little. I believe that not much of it will be left to be deflected in another direction to go around the mountains.