Eriond: A World Map

[eViLe_eAgLe]

Umm.. Sphereize in PS? Map to 3D ball in PS? (Might be CS5 Extended that can only do that.) Umm.. Theres a few other programs that I can't remember right now though.

[moutarde]

You can also use a program like Hugin to convert a square image into an orthographic projection.

[arsheesh]

That looks great, arsheesh!
Could you tell me what program you used to create the globes?

Cheers,
>Moe

Actually, I did the globe effect entirely in GIMP:

Filter > Map > Map Object (under "Options" I selected "Transparent Background" and under the "Map to" drop down menu I selected "Sphere")

You can also play around with the orientation and lighting options to get the angle and lighting that you like. However, like Anannsul mentioned, if you are doing a full world map, the resulting image turns out stretched into an oval shape like so:

Stretched Orb.png

Now there might be an easier way to fix this, but what I did was simply scale the image, matching the width to the height. This gave me the global view shown on the last page.

As far as atmosphere is concerned, I haven't figured that out just yet. Who knows, I may tinker with it a bit.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Moe]

Actually, I did the globe effect entirely in GIMP

Thanks a ton! When I get the time I'll try to translate your method to PS.

is there interest from people here in such a tutorial?

I'd be very thankful! Especially about the Wilbur part as I gave the program a short try and closed it early after being overwhelmed

>Moe

[arsheesh]

Thanks a ton! When I get the time I'll try to translate your method to PS.

No problem, I'm guessing PS has a similar feature but, as I'm not familiar with the program, I'm afraid I couldn't tell you how to do it.

[eViLe_eAgLe]

Really? I figured you would of used FT or something similar.

[arsheesh]

Nope. Don't own it. Though if I did, I probably would have used it. So far I've only used GIMP and Wilbur to make this map, though once I get to the labeling I'll probably bring Inkscape into the game.

[Ascension]

Arsheesh has Wilbur fine-tuned to get great results. In fact I'm gonna read his stuff to do some similar work just for fun. That's the biggest praise I can ever think to give someone.

[arsheesh]

Wow, that is high praise indeed!

So I guess on that note I have a question to ask. A few people over at Deviant Art and the Obsidian Portal (a campaign hosting site) have requested a tutorial for this style of map. I'm considering writing one up, but, I have a few reservations about doing so. First, my time is somewhat limited at the moment. I will be moving to New Zealand in four months to begin a PhD program, and right now my wife and I are busy with all the preparations that go into such a relocation. Second, this is a fairly difficult and time consuming style of mapping which would be difficult to explicate in a step by step walk through. This is now the fourth map I've made using Wilbur, and while things have gotten easier, I've had to tweak things in almost every map. So while I could attempt to write up a tutorial, I would imagine that it would still be really difficult for new-comers to follow along with. So, bearing these two reservations in mind, my question is, is there interest from people here in such a tutorial? If enough people seem interested I'll go ahead and commit to writing up a tutorial, otherwise not. You can either let me know in this thread or send me a PM if you are interested.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Yandor]

I'm always interested in amazing work, I'm sure others would agree. To be honest I'm interested mostly in the wilbur end of it all. I'm sure with the reservations and time issues, I'd say reference to other tutorials saying follow these concepts up to the point of where your tutorial kicks in. Maybe even addressing some of the things you did to tweak the tutorials or things you did in brief statements, so its not a complete walk through but enough to get the idea of what you did... As I said, just suggestions! =D