Well, I like the new landmasses! It definitely shows that you followed my advice on making the world less empty.
Well, I like the new landmasses! It definitely shows that you followed my advice on making the world less empty.
Didn't do anything satellite map style for a long time. I decided to take a break from gplats and indulge in Photoshop.
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It is necessary to sum up the intermediate results of a long work. I once again became interested in creating a pseudo satellite map and this is what happened. Unfortunately, in the process, I accidentally married some layers and now I can't go back a step to make changes. Therefore, texturing would have to continue from scratch. This cannot be called a complete map. But nevertheless it is ready. I like the results more and more. But this is not the end! I will go back to the height map, geology and tectonics, in order to make a satellite map again in a couple of years. Maybe.
I have to say that it's getting harder to make changes, and in large part because I seem to be really close to what I'm willing to call the finished version.
I need another push to gnaw through the rivers and finish the bathymetry. But maybe I will temporarily digress to something else, because. slowly began to tire. 10 or so years! haha
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I can finally play around with my map.
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Cultures map with main cultures
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Last edited by Harrg; 03-16-2023 at 12:59 PM.
Congrats! Really cool to see it get to this stage. I'm also starting a next step (speculative evolution in my case) and it's quite rewarding to move past geography and climates.
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gplates again and first tribes
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I seem to be getting closer and closer to the final view of the world. I like this arrangement better.
I have already whined many times that it is quite difficult to make the whole world, starting from the original forms of one continent without significant changes, because. tectonics times can be very unpredictable. But it seems I'm close to a more or less adequate scenario. I still have the difficult work of explaining in detail the central plateau and the strait with the Inland Sea. But it seems I found the right way
My scenario of the possible moment of the collapse of Pangea (this seems too likely) into three main continents, as was the case with Laurasia and Gondwana. This was followed by the disintegration of my "Gondwana" into Hornhord and Albara. Hornhord rushed to the northern paleoocean, Tethys appeared and collided with Svartal. Svartal is the northern continent that broke away from my Laurasia.
A new continent for me broke away from Laurasia, which for the time being I will call Hibben.
But with Hibben, a similar story happened as with Pangea, only on a smaller scale. It continued to split and close the remains of the paleo-ocean(?) to form a series of island arcs, much like Chimeria did in the real world. I'm expecting a rather difficult coast, like the inland one on the western edge of the Hibben.
In the future, the land will again gather somewhere in the region of the north pole.
modern
modern
### Latest WIP ###I mapped the age of the oceanic crust from the mid-ocean ridge.
The colors here are chosen conditionally, I just walked 10 ma. But I did not make any specific reference to the time.
Now that I know half of my oceanic crust, it will be easier for me to reconstruct the rest of the world.
Another sketch. I worked for a long time on more detailed tectonics to understand how my “Tibetan” plateau emerged. And it seems I managed to merge all the parts together. All that remains is to redo the height map.
How did you get into photorealistic map design? These are beautiful and look pretty real!
What is your process when you start a new project?
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