[PnP] Western lands remap, physical, first draft

[Choinski, Burton]

Ah, I see it finally made it through. Wout must have gone out and beat the server with a stick until it yielded and coughed up the mail. :}

 

One note on the map.  This is a ½ size version (the original is 3200 pixels wide), so some of the blurriness you might see will vanish.  Also, when I start working on the political layers the image will be scaled up 2x with anti-aliasing (6400 pixel wide!), which will smooth out some of the blockiness that exists at coastal and river boundries.

 

 

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From: pnp-bounces at abroere.xs4all.nl [mailto:pnp-bounces at abroere.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Choinski, Burton
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:47 AM
To: The Powers and Perils Mailing List
Subject: [PnP] Western lands remap, physical, first draft

 

I hope this is not too big for everyone, but I would like public comments on the physical layer before I lock it in and begin the political layers.  I especially want Richard's input.  I tried to take my best guess on some of the forest areas, since colors were sort of varied, so if I have flipped jungle for Forest, or vise-versa, let me know.

 

Once I had the terrain masks created it was a simple matter of using photoshop to create the relief and speckle layers to give the flat colors the proper texture.  So, if changes need to be made at this point it's not too difficult (I wrote down all my photoshop steps so I can replicate stuff again)

 

1)       The mountains (and the entire land) has topography based on a fractal cloud function.  When this was put into relief it produced visible peaks on the map.  I used that same topo map to find the high points for the snow cover.  If the location of these peaks is not good, I can redo the topographic map (which will render high points at other areas).  I do sort of like the high peak in Death's home, though

2)       I'm not 100% happy with the Badlands speckle...I have to experiment with it.

3)       The Desert speckle can be used for additional terrain context, if so desired...the dark dashes indicate areas of rocky desert, with non-marked areas more like sand seas.  Thinking on this, I remembered how I did it and I probably need to redo the speckle (it was based on the global topographic, the end result being that the dark specks (rocky) were at the low points, when instead they should be at the high points. I need to invert my greyscale map before I generate the speckle.

4)       The swamp color was the only layer NOT a flat color...I had to use clouds and difference clouds, with a color gradient attached to that for the swirl and eddy effect.  If you don't like the speckle I added to that, let me know and I can experiment some more.

5)       If you see spots I may have missed (like peeks of desert showing across the hills or mountains, let me know.  This is a simple touch-up matter of erasing the color layer (or adding to it).  If you can include a jpg crop of the point in question that would be great.

 

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From: pnp-bounces at abroere.xs4all.nl [mailto:pnp-bounces at abroere.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Sylverrs_ dragon
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:21 AM
To: broere at powersandperils.org; pnp at abroere.xs4all.nl
Subject: [PnP] The Western Lands

 

Wout,

 

Don't remember which of these addresses is the current one so I sent the material to both.

 

Attached you will find the text for the Western Lands and a bitmap of the lands associated with it. Please put them up on the site as possible. The text is a Word 2000 file.

 

Richard Snider

 

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