Seeking map or need advice on making it

diamondspider · #1 January 31st, 2004, 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by Targa:

...Or are you saying I should make the sea and the lakes #neighbors, so you could jump upriver?

Matter of taste, but I would. Otherwise the sea people wouldn't have much access to inland areas at all.

Yeah, I think you map is looking very professional and "offical".

Targa · #2 January 31st, 2004, 10:05 PM

Wow, nice map! Is there any way you can send me the pic without the province borders on it so I can try to rip the mountain grafix out?

Gandalf Parker · #3 January 31st, 2004, 10:06 PM

Targa and DiamondSpider,
Both of your maps look great. DS what did you use to make yours?

As far as I know "river" just does things like affect resources and events (flooding requires access to water). I dont think a province can actually be both land and water as far as movement.

diamondspider · #4 January 31st, 2004, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Targa and DiamondSpider,
Both of your maps look great. DS what did you use to make yours?

As far as I know "river" just does things like affect resources and events (flooding requires access to water). I dont think a province can actually be both land and water as far as movement.

Thanks! I didn't make the graphics, I found them posted on the Wizards of the Coast website as a public domain fan map and liked the look of it.

I also own Campaign Cartographer that can make similar maps, but they do take a long time to make with it as it is a flexible but rough tool.

On the other point, he could give the sea creatures access to the inner water areas just by linking the final sea zone at the delta with the lake!

I think that would be nifty

diamondspider · #5 January 31st, 2004, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by Targa:
Wow, nice map! Is there any way you can send me the pic without the province borders on it so I can try to rip the mountain grafix out?

Yup, I can, need an email addy, or you can get it from the WotC site which might be a few seconds faster

I'm a big fan of WotC even though I don't like D&D much (at least not for the Last 10 years).

Hopefully no one will mind this cross-link:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ma...0_dpi_fd9h.jpg

[ January 31, 2004, 20:14: Message edited by: diamondspider ]

Targa · #6 February 1st, 2004, 05:54 PM

Update on the slow progress on the new map. The borders aren't carved in stone yet, I was just getting a feel for it. May make the provinces smaller in order to fit a large number of them on the map. Decided to go with a different style of borders rather than being heavy-handed with them.

http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/webmap.jpg

BTW, this is a horizontal wrap-around map. Currently, I think I have something like 56 layers in Photoshop.

[ February 01, 2004, 15:56: Message edited by: Targa ]

diamondspider · #7 February 1st, 2004, 05:58 PM

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Originally posted by Targa:
Update on the slow progress on the new map. The borders aren't carved in stone yet, I was just getting a feel for it. May make the provinces smaller in order to fit a large number of them on the map. Decided to go with a different style of borders rather than being heavy-handed with them.

http://www.techno-mage.com/~targa/webmap.jpg

BTW, this is a horizontal wrap-around map.

Best looking map I've every seen pratically. Very realistic on the "natural" feel.

I found that making the provinces bigger worked fine as they are about 2x bigger than "standard" on my map, but it plays great (I actually prefer a more spacious feel).

I don't personally like wrap-around, but obviously that is nothing more than preference. In some ways it is more fair, but it seems unrealistic (be a pretty small planet to be able to walk across it in a year or two

) and it is nice to have edges as defensive strategies become more viable.

I love the idea of sea races to be able to make it up into the fresh water. Were you planning on supporting that?

[ February 01, 2004, 16:00: Message edited by: diamondspider ]