My world - The Everlandias

[Juggernaut1981]

Yeah currently your grasslands look like they've been overrun with blackberry briars. Awesome "not old growth" forest texture... waaaay too much shadow for grasslands.

[LonewandererD]

Truthfully I haven't gotten a lot done on my maps, other stuff keeps getting in the way.

Before I do continue with my maps however I'm going to be doing a lot of experimenting with my colours in order to try and make my own style and improve on the litte things I had before. Right now I have a revision for my oceans. The first image is my ocean before the change and the second one is the ocean after the change, i felt i need to make a clearer difference between shallow and deep water. It gets deeper further out but this map is focusing on the coastal area so it isn't visible.

Next I'm moving onto grasslands and mountains.

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[LonewandererD]

I shouldn't double post but as soon as I posted the last post I epxeriment a bit more and came up with more ocean pics. Now the deep water goes preety close to the coast, as it does on satellite maps I've seen of earth. Here are two pics, the same thing but with different layer styles, which is better or should i use neither?

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[Steel General]

I like them both, but if I was forced to pick between the two I'd go with the second one.

[Gidde]

Definitely the second.

[Gandwarf]

The second!

[Ramah]

Is it just me or do they "bubble" up over the land? Especially the rivers? Or is that expected at this stage?

[LonewandererD]

It seems I'm going with the second one

@Ramah - I looked into the "bubbling" and found that it most likely caused by the shelf layer, I went back and tweaked it, maybe the attached version is less bubbly. I also added an outer glow for the beaches. I know the ocean looks darker in this one but thats becuase I forgot to save the previous oceaqn and made this one a shade too dark, i know what the mistake was and will fix it in future maps.

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[Ascension]

I like this just as it is...I always like the darker colors and the lil beachy thing looks good too.

[LonewandererD]

Instead of trying to work my way through each little aspect of a map I just dove and decided to experiment with different environments and came up with these three.

The first one is a tropical/jungle terrain, the second is a more temperate areas and the third is a much dryer area. I'n trying the get some good pictures of pine forests so that I can do a colder region and I'm also experiment arids/deserts and plains.

Should I keep them or go ahead with what I had before?

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