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

[Malygon]

How about adding a Shorline? It's in this tutorial and I think it lets the water blend in a bit more with the land.

[Mychael]

Hello, everyone! I've been lurking here for about a month or so and finally finished my first map using this tutorial as a guide. I'd say I'm a novice GIMP user but can follow instructions (fairly) well. This took about 6 hours I'd guess, much of which was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing. I've already thought of some things that would make this better (mostly in my variations on the instructions) but thoughts, suggestions, rude remarks all welcome!

PS - Thanks RobA! This tutorial has been awesome!

[cancerlad]

Love this tutorial. I started working on it a few days ago, but have been preöccupied with my own projects. Can't wait to finish it though!

[cancerlad]

Hello, everyone! I've been lurking here for about a month or so and finally finished my first map using this tutorial as a guide.

Very nice! Better than anything I've done so far!

[Mychael]

Very nice! Better than anything I've done so far!

Thanks!

[RagetoEmpire]

My grass bumps isnt bumping! And how do i fill grey at 50%?

[jfrazierjr]

My grass bumps isnt bumping!

Need more info.

And how do i fill grey at 50%?

50% grey is nothing more than exactly half white half black. There should be one in the Color Pallete RobA provided. If not, you can edit the foreground color and in the "HTML Notation" field, enter 808080 and click ok. The color result is 50% grey. Then, you can either a) drag and drop the foreground color to the approriate layer in the image window or b) use the bucket fill tool

[Twitch]

I've been lurking for a while, and have been using this Tutorial since yesterday and found it extremely useful. However, I'm having problems with the mountains - RobA's mountains were extremely well blended and the outline of the mountains were "noisy" and "fuzzy" as compared to mine. Does anyone have a solution? I was thinking it had something to do with when I inverted the selection in the TLS technique. -shrugs-


Thanks for any help in advance! ^^

[Mychael]

After you applied the Layer mask and before you applied the Bump Map did you apply the Blur and noise?

The mountains and trees were definitely the hardest part of the whole thing IMHO.

[Morkhdull]

Thank's for all your wise advises.

Would like to give you rep