The circular river has a 30% finished story, thought it would be interesting to have a high speed water perpetum-mobile (think of the possibilities!)
The sun for rivers was the same as for the mountains, although I have no idea why there was "emboss" instead of "inner bevel"
The square thing... not as easy as it might have seen, but manageable
The ocean had a change right after I uploaded the last one (the dark part seemed to sharp)
so, with this quick update comes a hard question:
where do forests grow?
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Well... Moving forward. Finished forests, borders, cities (goddamn making one brush 10 times to fit in those pixels), the net, will have to search for a method for roads, and then the naming process and finishing it. Oh and the scale is one square is about 50 miles
Any thoughts?
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In the middle of the map, just right of center, it looks like you filled in some lakes or something and that's producing a hard edge. You also might want to add a black stroke around your towns so that they don't get lost in the lighter colored areas. So far so good.
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Just noticed... suppose it isn't deliberate... but your rivers look like they are "blue lines of putty glued onto the landscape".
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Looking good, couple of things I noticed...
1) You have some pixelization/noise around many of your lakes
2) As Juggy pointed out your rivers look like they rise up off the land. Not sure if that's do to the source of the lighting or not.
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Hey, I know other people have mentioned the rivers already but I had the same problem with mine. Here's the setting i used, maybe they'll work for your rivers too.
Set the fill to 0%.
Colour overlay of 110,160,200 at 50% opacity.
Bevel and emboss at chisel soft and direction down. Set the highlight of the bevel to 0 and size to 1.
Essentially the same as the rivers in Ascension's tut but with some slight tweaking, if the rivers turn out to bright, or not bright enough, just tweak the opacity on the colour overlay. The bevel doesn't really work if the rivers are 1 pixel wide but that shouldn't be a problem with your map. Where the rivers meet the sea, or a lake, lightly erase the edges with a small airbrush eraser to make them fade into the water.
Hopes this helps.
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The problem with the rivers is an inner bevel instead of an outer bevel.
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Ok.
I tried to fix the lakes and the shores, somewhat worked (I hope), and I've fixed the rivers. Now I'm working on roads, then I'll try naming all that stuff... And then what?
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There's a rather interesting crop-circle in the southeastern forest. I assume that's intentional? Ancient elven ceremonial site, perhaps?
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At this scale (or what I presume this scale to be), that's a heck of a ceremonial site! I'd figure it to be the ruins of an ancient super-city.
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