I ditched the snow idea. My mountains have a nice golden-brown color that didnt go with the snow.
As for the forests, all that there is is a green called shoreline (???) so i guess i could use that. Can you do it without normalizing? I get this pukish green when i normalize...
Last edited by BlackMojo; 07-24-2009 at 01:36 PM.
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There should be several greens, IIRC. If not, maybe pick your own (something nice and earthy looking is where you'll want to go... so if your green is too bright, basically, just increase the balance of red in it a little).Originally Posted by BlackMojo
I'd avoid normalizing the green for the forests, as I think you're right, it gets kind of not-great looking when you do.
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There are four other greens called ditch, low ground, medium ground and high ground if you're using the palette that RobA included. I think I used a gradient between ditch and medium ground. And yes, don't normalize. What I did do was follow the suggestion to duplicate the forest color layer and set it's blend mode to grain merge.
Hello RobA. I have a question. How do i get your color palate to open up? When i try to unzip the folder it doesnt let me open the gpl file.
All you should have to do is unzip the gpl into your palettes directory. Alternately, just use the png and the eye-dropper tool to pick the colours as you need them (which is what I do more commonly, rather than building custom palettes).
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sweet thanks. however, upon further readings of this tutorial i realized its inadequate for my purposes. You said yourself that your Gimp tuts dont work for making whole continents. could you be kind enough to point me to a Gimp tut that can show me how to make a geographical/political continent plz?
I don't know that there's a full-on, GIMP Continent tutorial currently posted here. However, my advice would be: run through RobA's regional map tutorial once on a practice map, and you should learn enough about how GIMP works that you can adapt the skills developed to creating a continent map yourself. That's actually what I did... so that my still-under-construction world map is about 80% RobA GIMP tutorial and 20% original tinkering to get the effects I want.
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Karro hit the nail on the head. My intent was to really introduce many of the Gimp basics along with making a map, so if you are a newbie to Gimp, following the tutorial is a good way to learn many of the features that would be useful for any style of mapping!
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Question about GIMP tutorial
Hello, Im following the "Using GIMP to create an artistic regional RPG map" tutorial and am finding it exciting. However, Im stuck on post 6. It states "copy" the land mask layer and Im not sure exactly what is meant by that. If its not creating a new layer or duplication of a layer, how am I to copy it? Im not clear on how to proceed correctly, so if someone familiar with that tutorial or GIMP in general could help me out, Id sure appreciate it. Im using GIMP 2.6, if that makes any difference. Thanks.
The land mask layer you created in the prior step is what he is refering to. You make a duplicate of it then alter it the way he suggests.
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