It's great! I really like the layout of your continents.
I just realised I never dropped a comment on Rheia, despite following (ahem, lurking) the project with interest. But all this is looking really great!
If I wasn't a bit rusty with the climate stuff I might drop some criticisms/suggestions here, but that may have to wait. Btw, did you use MrBragg's methods and attempted to use ExoPlaSim to simulate the climates? Kind of curious what results the software would produce.
Thanks Ilanthar and Charerg! I mostly used the Azelor tutorial for climates, but I used MrBragg's ExoPlaSim output as a reference and sort of split the difference. I wasn't entirely satisfied with the ExoPlaSim output, so what I have at the end of the day is probably more art than science... But I think I'm more or less satisfied with what I have now, as I wanted reasonably plausible climates, and if I have Cfa where there should be Cfb or something I won't lose too much sleep over it...
Making some progress on the labeling- that took way longer than I expected mostly because there's a lot of worldbuilding that has to happen before naming geographical features! Still trying to settle on a style that I like, and will probably need to make some changes to the raster image in Photoshop in order to lighten up the colors and make the labeling easier to read. Any critiques or recommendations for figuring out labels and lettering are welcome!
Rheia_relief_winkel_v2.jpg
(image is horridly compressed in order to be uploadable- you'd think that an art-focused site would be able to support larger file sizes...)
AMAZING! I hope you don’t disappear when you finish your map and continue to delight with updates to your world. MB blog or where else can I follow you?
I second Harrg's assessment of your map as AMAZING! Are you ever going to write a tutorial explaining how you accomplished such realistic topography, step by step?