[Arralen]

Originally posted by Ski Anderson:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Very nice. Did Cartographer generate the map with all those trees and mountains? Or is it more like a paint program with terrain-type brushes?

The colors are alittle painful for me. I would pastel it abit. Lighter water and less bright grasslands. Make everything kindof meet closer to the middle.

It's more of the latter than the former. CC2 doesn't really do any of the work for you, but it makes some of the drawing aspects easier. It has a range of built in "decorations" like the trees, mountains, and so on. It can make your coastlines more jagged, which is helpful too.

I definitely agree with the suggestion about colors. Most of those colors in the map are the defaults for CC2.

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Gave it a 35-second overhaul with GIMP.

Lighter ocean blue, less bright green, borders visibility improved ...

Get the .tga file here
reworked farthing .tga file

Haven't tested the file, though, so if anything goes wrong using it, just tell me and I'll fix it.

Hope you have fun ...
A.


edit: Had to invest some more 15 minutes to get the white pixels back (obviously something didn't work as it should). Used the opportunity to get the file size down to roughly 1/3 by reducing the colour palette to 256 colours...

[ January 14, 2004, 22:38: Message edited by: Arralen ]