[WIP] Arál Draván - using the "Pasis" method

[cereth]

My next big project is mapping out an RPG world a friend of mine has spent quite a number of years working on. I decided I wanted to try something different from what I normally do, so I've been playing with the extraordinary "Pasis tutorial" for a couple of weeks now.

This will hopefully be the first of many maps in a series of them. I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made so far.

Thanks to Pasis for sharing his secrets with the community.

[Katto]

If you can manage Pasis' wonderful tutorial you can't be wrong. It rises and falls with the textures you use. I tried it also for a few weeks, but still have problems in rising the mountains so that they look good.
I really like your forest texture!

[Gary N. Mengle]

This is shaping up to look pretty amazing. Now I have to work at getting Cereth more settlement/river/nation names.

[cereth]

Made some progress this morning.

[jfrazierjr]

Looking good so far. Question for you: how are you populating the trees around the mountain texture and folds? Are you painting with a texture brush or some other method(such as a layer mask)?

[cereth]

How are you populating the trees around the mountain texture and folds? Are you painting with a texture brush or some other method(such as a layer mask)?

Just painting with a texture brush (pattern stamp tool). I made the pattern from an aerial photograph I googled.

Here's another updated image. I got a good deal done in the last 24 hours.

[cereth]

More progress made.

[Karro]

It's cool, and I like the name; what do the acute accent marks designate in the pronounciation of the names?

[Gary N. Mengle]

It's cool, and I like the name; what do the acute accent marks designate in the pronounciation of the names?

The language is called Draványa, and it's moderately well-developed; acute accents denote syllable stress. Thus the name is pronounced ar-AHL dra-VAHN. Arál Draván itself is a very important and very old empire on the World of Ytherra (linked in my sig, but there's not much info there at this point.)

[cereth]

I've added some more labels and made a couple of minor changes here and there. I did want some feedback on the "cultivated" land texture I added. I wanted it to be a little subtle, but still noticeable. I'm a little on the fence about how it looks though.