[WIP] Atlas map of the Antuzan Empire

[Josh Foreman]

Wow, that's very cool. I was literally just wondering the other day why there was no software for generating climate zones. So happy to see Songs of the Eons in development!

[morne]

Wow, that's very cool. I was literally just wondering the other day why there was no software for generating climate zones. So happy to see Songs of the Eons in development!

Their recent updates did remove the ability to import custom heightmaps, so you'd have to track down an old version to get that working, but they are definitely doing some cool work.

I also found this: https://space.geometrian.com/calcs/climate-sim.php, but I wasn't as happy with the results.

[Eowyn Cwper]

There's a problem with your colour gradient in my opinion. The lowest colour going back into the greys is quite confusing to the eye.

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The whole atlas part is quite impressive though, and the reliefs look perfect! It reminds me of my current work and you're probably going to inspire me. ^^

[kacey]

Absolutely stunning work! I have seen many people attempt this style, and do an amazing job of it, but this tops the cake... It’s truly inspiring, great job!

[morne]

Absolutely stunning work! I have seen many people attempt this style, and do an amazing job of it, but this tops the cake... It’s truly inspiring, great job!

Wow, thank you! I'm not entirely sure I'm worthy of such high praise, but it is greatly appreciated!

[Michi il Disperso]

I don't think it's pretentious, but I do think my process is probably super inefficient and tedious. I am about to start the same process of building the heightmap for a new continent, so at the very least I'll start a progress thread to document the progress from start to finish.

Oh, that will be very useful!

[santos]

Here’s a topo-relief style map of the entire continent.

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Stunning! Looks very realistic

[morne]

Not a ton of forward progress these past few days. I decided to switch back to Illustrator from Affinity Designer. There were just a few key features I was really missing, and I could not stand the default smoothing on the pencil tool. At least Illustrator gives you the option to turn smoothing completely off. So now I'm part-way through a semi-manual conversion of the map to ai, which has been a little frustrating.

In the mean time, here's one of the reasons I decided to switch: Vector Pattern fills. Affinity only let's you use bitmaps, and they scale weird when you apply to different sized paths. I'll be using the patterns to fill in terrain types on the map. Here's my wip pattern for forests:

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[Impesio]

Not a ton of forward progress these past few days. I decided to switch back to Illustrator from Affinity Designer. There were just a few key features I was really missing, and I could not stand the default smoothing on the pencil tool. At least Illustrator gives you the option to turn smoothing completely off. So now I'm part-way through a semi-manual conversion of the map to ai, which has been a little frustrating.

In the mean time, here's one of the reasons I decided to switch: Vector Pattern fills. Affinity only let's you use bitmaps, and they scale weird when you apply to different sized paths. I'll be using the patterns to fill in terrain types on the map. Here's my wip pattern for forests:

kador.png

I wonder if there is a way in illustrator to not cut pattern circles on the edge of shape

[morne]

I wonder if there is a way in illustrator to not cut pattern circles on the edge of shape

Only by manually editing the shape size :/