[Award Winner] Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional RPG Map

[Carlo]

You would need to send this to the GIMP forums. I would HIGHLY expect that the issue is around your internationalization based on the screenshot you provide. If you have any way to change your OS's language to English, just try a quick test to verify. Out of curiosity, what language is that?

Ok, i'll send to the GIMP forums. The language is Portuguese, actualy the program it's half portuguese language half english, i don't know why that '-'

[Aenigma]

I'm sooo gonna put one of my maps I made in paint through this tutorial xD It looks promising.
(plus the fact that this is page 46 kinda shows how good this tutorial must be .... unless every page is filled with complaints... erm)

This'll be fun.

[RobA]

(plus the fact that this is page 46 kinda shows how good this tutorial must be .... unless every page is filled with complaints... erm)

and 80,749 page views it is a granddaddy of tutorials here, and, unfortunately, like all granddaddies is getting a bit long in the tooth. When gimp 2.8 comes out I think it will be due for a refresh... Maybe a video series...

-Rob A>

[nolgroth]

I'll be watching for that. This is a great tutorial, though I have never actually made it through the whole thing.

[Comrade]

Hello. During the portion of the tutorial when you color the sea wen I do it the landmasses turn bright yellow and the water turns just one shade of blue. I follow the tutorial exactly so I am not sure why this is happening. I even tried it multiple times with the same result. The file I use for my map is something I made in Inkscape and is a .png, I just used it to sketch the outlines of my landmasses. Anyone else get this problem?


Decided to add the exact file I am using for clarification.

[jfrazierjr]

Mostly likely, you had the wrong layer selected when you changed the blending mode. Double check the blending mode for all your layers to make sure they are as expected. It's been a while since I did this tut, but I don't think there should be any blending modes used other than Overlay(but I could be wrong!!!)

[Comrade]

Thank you. I will go over this a fourth time and if I still encounter this problem I will post a screenshot.

[Comrade]

Encountered the Yellow Land problem on my latest run through



Looking at it again, it seriously looks like a thermal image. As cool as that is it is unfortunately not what I wanted. I am using the latest version of GIMP if that matters.
After messing around with it for a bit I discovered that no matter the pallet colors the result is always the same. Am I miss-reading something?

[jfrazierjr]

Start turning off layers one at a time from the top down until it gets a bit more normal looking. If that does not help. you would have to let us see your xcf file. You can zip it up and attach(perhaps start a new Work in Progress thread would be best!) as long as the total zip file size is less than around 4.5 MB(I think thats the number).

[Comrade]

The problem seems to have fixed itself. After getting some rest and loading the same file back up and doing the same exact thing "choosing the two blue colors and making the gradient map" it came out exactly as it should have.I honestly do not know why this has happened but ill take what I can get. Thank you for the help anyways.