D&D Forgotten Realms map?

[Edi]

I might actually try and make an FR map using those 3rd Edition scans, as I love Forgotten Realms, always have, especialy the pre-Godswar one. There's the makings of a more than one scenario out of it if one is so inclined, and being unemployed right now, I've got spare time. If somebody else wants to do a Version as well, go for it. This might take a long time.

Edi

[Edi]

Of course, if they actually had the complete map of the continent with Kara-Tur also in there, it'd be much better. Anybody have an idea where I could get a Kara-Tur map consistent with the 3rd Edition FR map?

I was never all that keen on Maztica, but it could go as well, but that would be a huge project.

Edi

[Wauthan]

I couldn't find any highresolution maps of Kara-Tur, possibly because it's still very popular and a recent "Trail maps of Kara-Tur" seems to have been produced.

The Maztica setting is however available free for download. It will take a bit of photoshopping to make those maps work for Dominions 2 however.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/downloads

[Edi]

I've got the Faerun map almost ready to start province editing, just need to smooth out the wrinkles from piecing together all those separate map segments and erasing a couple of annoying lines that were produced by the fold marks when it was scanned. I should get that done tomorrow.

Edi

[Edi]

Never mind the Kara-Tur and Maztica maps, if this one was any bigger, it would be unmanageable. As it is, I'm having trouble getting the map editor to display all the provinces because it seems to hit a limit at around 498 provinces.

I've got some province placement modifications to do, as well as some optimizing, axing unnecessary ones and cleaning up the map in this sense, but it's coming along nicely and it shouldn't take more than a few days. The file is huge, though, at around 20 MB for the uncompressed targa file, so I'm going to need the help of a couple of people to get it Online, as I've only got a dial-up connection. Pipe up if you have hosting space for that much so we can make arrangements. My email is esko.halttunen @luukku.com (white space included to fool search bots).

Edi

[Norfleet]

The maximum map size in Dom2 is 500 provinces.

However, at least as of 2.08, when a single player owned a large number of these provinces, the nation overview display would get cut off.

A more practical limit on map size is therefore around 300 provinces.

[Gandalf Parker]

If it helps I have abit of a talk about map sizes at http://www.dom2minions.com/maps.shtml
Comments appreciated.