International borders

[Hoel]

Here I Stand is an awsome game btw.

[argaur]

I can´t get that result... i practice doing a simple circle, but i can´t expand the colour inside the borders, only in the circle lines... what i´m doing wrong?

[argaur]

Ok, i do it but i need to fill the limits of the country with white or balck or something, how can i do it with only the border limits and nohting inside like you?

[Midgardsormr]

To get the interior of the country to be transparent, I used the blending mode. Each blending mode uses different rules for what it makes transparent. In this case, I used "darken," which causes any pixels in the selected layer that are lighter than pixels underneath it to become transparent. Since white is lighter than everything, all the white will vanish when the layer is set to darken.

Conversely, if you fill the country with black and set it to "lighten," you'll get the same result--lighten turns pixels transparent if they're darker than what's underneath.

Here's where you set the blending mode:
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There's an excellent tutorial on Photoshop's blending modes at cgtextures.com:
http://www.cgtextures.com/content.ph...ame=blendmodes

It should fully apply to the Gimp, as well. I highly recommend reading through it, as it's a very powerful feature for mapping and texturing.

[HandsomeRob]

To get the interior of the country to be transparent, I used the blending mode. Each blending mode uses different rules for what it makes transparent. In this case, I used "darken," which causes any pixels in the selected layer that are lighter than pixels underneath it to become transparent. Since white is lighter than everything, all the white will vanish when the layer is set to darken.

Conversely, if you fill the country with black and set it to "lighten," you'll get the same result--lighten turns pixels transparent if they're darker than what's underneath.

Here we would fill the country with white and use "multiply". Also, I've never done a map for a publisher where the glow was not set to be the same size everywhere. Just FYI.

-Rob

[ravells]

What a great thread...and an excellent mini tut from Mid. Repped.

Good to see you're popping your head in occasionally, Handsome Rob!!

[argaur]

More simple questions for a rookie.... I´ve decided to to the mountains like in this old maps, i think is more realistic for a napoleonic map. How can i get that kind of mountains? It seems that is not difficult, but i have no idea... thanks!!

[ravells]

I think you may need to buy a wacom tablet to do those....is there any chance you could zoom in really close to the mountains if you have the map on a scanner?

[argaur]

No, i have found it on the web, this is the link where you can see it higher

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histo...urope_1740.jpg

Another variant it this, mountains more simple like a worm:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histo...urope_1740.jpg

But i fund much better the first option

[Rahva]

It looks a bit like on of the photoshop filters - plastic or something? I can't verify it right now but I'm sure someone could fiddle with it.