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My first (hopefully good) regional maps
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As for the mountains - that's a subject that could fill a book. I guess that if you've been browsing the tutorials you've seen the large number of tutorials devoted to mountains on there. In your case they look like a great start. However mountains are greatly influenced by erosion patterns and yours are very jagged and new. I'd expect the erosion to have created a few well defined spines to the mountains rather than the overall collection of peaks that you have. I think it's Clercon who did a great mountain tutorial on creating proper mountain ranges. Certainly worth checking out.
