Middle Earth DEM Project

[Steel General]

Thanks for the updates, good to see the project is still 'alive & kicking'

[Ascension]

Looks fantastic.

[monks]

Cheers guys

I don't know if I've posted these before or not. I use Global Mapper. The contour map was created by hand using data from all my role playing book sources; out of maybe 70 or so books, about 6 or 7 proved helpful.
The map was drawn in Photoshop at 10K pixels square with a 1 px wide pencil. Your computer screen is about 1K square and this full stop is 1px. Can you imagine what that was like?...hahaha..it was quite insane. I literally lived and breathed that map for maybe 3 or 4 months.


http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...o/Contours.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...ndContours.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...obalMapper.jpg

some more with underlying terrain. This is pre- processed terrain. Not the final product.

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._5527697_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...3_820657_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._8177943_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...5_890524_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._3964528_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._1939624_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._1151377_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._3531647_n.jpg

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file..._1785018_n.jpg


Oh yes I've got a texture folks can have. It's a seamless 4096 aerial view of woodland. It may well be tileable as well. I made it in imagesynth using shots from GoogleEarth of the Black Forest. Each is 40 megs.

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file.../output_03.tif

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...ut_03_blue.tif

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...t_03_green.tif

Cheers,
monks

[Ascension]

I can't even begin to imagine the insanity. Ravs, you gotta get this guy a straight jacket - he's foaming at the mouth, scratching the paint off the walls, and eating dirt. You are, without doubt. the most dedicated mapper here, man. Cheers and keep up the epicness.

[monks]

hahaha!...nice one Ascension. I've seem some pretty cool maps round here- the one on the front page is excellent! I especially like the little detail with the trees and bushes. Awesome that! I'm always learning. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a better way of using real world terrain data. I think I'm missing a trick there.

Hey if any of you guys ever want seamless, tileable, textures of vegetation etc from Google I can knock them up with a little program called imagesynth. If I post links where would be the best place to do it?


monks

[Steel General]

Hey if any of you guys ever want seamless, tileable, textures of vegetation etc from Google I can knock them up with a little program called imagesynth. If I post links where would be the best place to do it?

monks

I would say the Mapping Elements forum would be the best place.

[monks]

ok, ta General

[Midgardsormr]

Mapping Elements for the textures, and Software Discussion for the utility.

[monks]

Hi Midgardsormr, the utility was not written by me, but I can post info about it over there I guess. Did you once have an account on Deviant Art by any chance?

monks

[Midgardsormr]

Hi Midgardsormr, the utility was not written by me, but I can post info about it over there I guess. Did you once have an account on Deviant Art by any chance?

That's okay, it's for discussion of software, no matter who makes it.

Yes, I have a Deviant Art account, but I don't know that I've ever actually used it. It's likely, though, that what you've seen wasn't me; somebody else grabbed my name before I got there. It happens from time to time on the bigger websites, especially since Final Fantasy XI named one of their servers after me, but I'm the original! Accept no substitutes! I guess to really clinch it I should claim the midgardsormr.com and .net domains; looks like the last guy to have the .com didn't renew.

Looks like my DA account is Midgaard77, which is what I always try to fall back on if somebody's taken my primary handle.