Oct / Nov '17 Lite Challenge: Waskingdale Island

[ladiestorm]

This is looking really good, Straf!! I do have one issue, and it may just be the stigmatisms in my eyes, but I'm seeing this island cutting into the surrounding sea instead of rising out of it. I've been seeing it that way since the first image. It may just be the shading, or it may be I need new glasses... but I thought I would let you know. Maybe bevel the island a bit? I have no idea

[Straf]

I have to work on the sea. It's a bit featureless. I'll sea what I can do with it

I've still got quite a bit to add to the whole map and time's ticking by!

[Straf]

Just a quick update. I've been messing around a bit more with things. I've hardly done any drawing on this, I've just been playing with GIMP and Wilbur. The only drawing I've done so far is to paint the forest texture on a mask. Anyway I've been playing about with the sea a bit and round the coastline. I'm not entirely convinced at the moment but I may start playing about with opacity and other things to see what happens.

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[Mouse]

That's looking really good, Straf

One thing I noticed when I was playing around with Wilbur a while back is that you could export the hill shading separately, which proved invaluable, since I could overlay the hill shading on top of everything else so that it made things like roads and forests sit properly on the ground (the forest on the shadowed side of a hill would be shadowed, while the forest on the lit side would still be in full light - that sort of thing). It made a heck of a difference to the map I was working on at the time

[Straf]

Nah, that looked naff.

I've stepped back a bit:

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[ladiestorm]

Hey Straff! I really like the mountain and forest textures you have going. And your island is starting to rise out of the ocean like it's supposed to.... I'm so sorry to say this, but I'm seeing wonkiness again, this time with some of the forest/mountains... especially the ones in the middle. It looks to me (and again, it could just be my messed up eyes) that some of your mountains are 'sitting on top' of your forests. I don't know how else to explain it... But you usually see mountains rising out of the forest, and most times the forests creep up the mountain side.... but I'm seeing the many forests, and then the mountains are just plopped down on top of them.

Your rivers also seem to be two different colors? It's like they look blue closer to the coast where the rivers meet the sea, but then half way inland they seem to turn black. Is that they way they are supposed to be?

I'm still loving this island, though!

[Straf]

Thanks ladiestorm

I have to do some fine detail painting on the forests - I've left large gaps because I need to soften the edges - I've used a hard brush to paint them in and I need to go around with a softer brush to 'merge' them in. The rivers are indeed two different colours because the main branches are part of the same mask as the sea. Again I need to do some touching up (oo-er missus!) using a brush with the dynamics switched on.

I've also got to work out the final presentation of this.

[ladiestorm]

ahh, okay, that makes sense

[Straf]

Take that back at once!

[Straf]

First there's a month, then a few weeks, then all of a sudden there's just a couple of days! So much still to do.

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