J's Inkman Experiment thread

[J.Edward]

The finished version of Nesindra III is done and posted in finished maps.
It's always nice to clear one out of the archives.

That's a good teaser, I'd say !
I like the way you're playing with contrasts on those.

Thanks Ilanthar I often don't have enough contrast.

I like the simplified style, and the inverted colors!

The font looks cool. It reminds me of midcentury pulp movie titles.

Thanks jshoer
The font is a sort of retro slab kind of thing.
I believe it is meant to resemble the line angles of blackletter but more updated.

edit - testing font colors....
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[J.Edward]

I just got a copy of Fractal Terrains and finally downloaded Wilbur [really, finally].
I've wanted to mess with both of these for years and just never got into it.
I'm trying to see if I can use Wilbur to help me with a commission I am going to be working on.
I'll post some more later after I try a few things. There is a lot to learn about Wilbur and all of its features.
And sadly, i sometimes learn slowly.

All this relates back to a post earlier in this thread, a topo I worked on some years back for a client.
They're now ready to do more work on this world. Should be interesting.

Edit - might as well repost those pics...
JS Topographic color scale 01a.jpg Avalon topo sample 01a[L] sirinkman.jpg Avalon topo sample 01b[L] sirinkman.jpg
Here's a more recent pic
Avalon topo sample 01c[L] sirinkman.jpg

[kacey]

These look great J.Edward, it’s a refreshing take on the modern topographic style. Fractal terrains is super fun to play around with, I can spend hours just hitting the next button and seeing what comes out of it. I’ve found the painting tools to be a bit finicky but I think I’ve finally gotten them under controll.

[Ilanthar]

Sweet! I like your color scale .

[MapMappingMapped]

Nice! I like the top-down style, particularly the mountains

[- JO -]

There's a mesmerezing effect, when you try to fellow your valleys with the eyes... That's fun ! Nice job

[J.Edward]

These look great J.Edward, it’s a refreshing take on the modern topographic style. Fractal terrains is super fun to play around with, I can spend hours just hitting the next button and seeing what comes out of it. I’ve found the painting tools to be a bit finicky but I think I’ve finally gotten them under controll.

Thanks Kacey
I suspect I will do the same thing.

Sweet! I like your color scale .

Thanks Ilanthar

Nice! I like the top-down style, particularly the mountains

Thanks MMM It's a laborious style to work on, in a way.

There's a mesmerezing effect, when you try to fellow your valleys with the eyes... That's fun ! Nice job

Thanks JO The whole continent is round, so it sort of spirals around.

[Elterio Delgard]

Wow, I really enjoy how you did the islands really close to the coast and how logical it sounds. Actually you are making me rethink how to plan the "coast island belts'' if I can express myself in a clear way. What I mean is how you have lots of tiny islands following the irregular frontiere seperating the land and the sea body. Also, your rivers taught me how a hand drawn map does not catch all the subtle elevations which can lead a river to twist around the coast and not necessarily simply going inland.

[J.Edward]

Wow, I really enjoy how you did the islands really close to the coast and how logical it sounds. Actually you are making me rethink how to plan the "coast island belts'' if I can express myself in a clear way. What I mean is how you have lots of tiny islands following the irregular frontiere seperating the land and the sea body. Also, your rivers taught me how a hand drawn map does not catch all the subtle elevations which can lead a river to twist around the coast and not necessarily simply going inland.

Thanks Eltario
Interestingly, I was not very good with perspective or iso maps early on and tended to do mostly top down maps.
I did a lot of contour line maps and then elevation maps like this.
That really taught me a lot about where water would flow.
It also gave me some good ideas about how and where some islands might form.
Or rather, where islands would be based on the water level.
So if you had land rise from a mountain chain or series of hills and it went off into the sea...
or the sea level rose, then you'd have various islands all along the coast.
Plus I look at a lot of satellite images and see that happen quite a lot.
Water does do some interesting things. Not always what you'd expect.
But the more you know your elevations, the easier it is to predict it.

[MistyBeee]

It's just amazing to see that even with a totally different style it's just totally you, J. !