I love those Bob Ross "happy lil accidents"...wish I had more. Or maybe I wish I had the talent to turn them into happy ones instead of the usual dreadful. This looks good so far.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Hi Heather, and welcome.
From what I've picked up (today, actually) Paint.NET was developed as a university project by a couple of students who wanted to improve MS Paint. I think they later worked for MS.
I'm trying to find out more about it, practical-wise, maybe you can help my query here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...99&postcount=1
Thanks.
Mapping a Traveller ATU.
See my (fantasy-based) apprenticeship blog at:
http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/vi...forums&sx=1024
Look for Chit Chat, Sandmann's blog. Enjoy.
Wow, long time no see everyone. I got into maps, fell out of maps, and now my interest has come back around again. I might post some things in the near future, or, you know, I might not.
Cheers!
Heh. I was like that at first as well. When I first started experimenting 6 months would go by before I did another experiment. Did that for a few years then when I found this place I began to do stuff every day.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
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My tutorials: Textured forests in GIMP, Hand-Drawn Mapping for the Artistically Challenged
Welcome back, Peaceheather! Good to see you again!
Yes indeed WB PH
We have had a few new guys/girls who are also using PdN, but I can't recall who they are atm.
Anyhoot, glad to see you back. Still using PdN?
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Please take my critiques as someone who Wishes he had the Talent
You betcher sweet bippy I am, Korash! It's been upgraded and updated, and a great many uber-nifty plugins added. Mama like.
Had a happy accident a few days ago with an experiment I tried, and I ended up with something that could be riverbeds awaiting water, or political boundaries for various regions. Here, take a look:
Random map PNG.png
Cheers!
Last edited by PeaceHeather; 02-10-2011 at 11:08 PM.
Yup, Stroke some of those boundries and presto.....Rivers!
So.......in the spirit of learning, what was the experiment on?
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Please take my critiques as someone who Wishes he had the Talent
I was looking for a new way to randomize land placement. Right now I follow the tutorials here where you basically render some clouds and let the threshold settings determine where your land goes. But I've been playing this logic-square game (simiar to sudoku) and I got the idea to assign a color to each number, draw a grid and then Do Things to get the shapes you see there. The above actually started as a 5x5 grid - hand-drawn (yay for rectangles), so it wasn't perfect or anything, but *shrug*. Drew a grid, new layer, painted in the colors, then in Paint.Net, Effects > Distort > Crystallize. Muck around with the settings fairly large to get the basic shapes, then Cyrstallize again on a much smaller setting to get more detail. Rinse, repeat (although I think I only ran it twice in the above image) - each time you use a smaller setting, it reshapes the edges of each color blob and adds more niftiness.
From there, back to the rendering of clouds, engrave/emboss to get bumpy textured goodness, one last set of clouds with Things Done To It on a low opacity to add a little hazy atmosphere, and done. The only other thing was a not-so-great attempt to add some light-shine to the water, hence the big round dots with no consistent angle to them.
... Oh, lord. I'm going to have to write up a tut for this, aren't I.
Cheers,
Heather
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