[PhilD]

Originally posted by Leif_-:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
But the EASIEST thing Ive found is a blur.

You might want to look at adding a bump-map to that as well. (To do that manually in Gimp copy the original map to a new layer, and create an additional empty layer. Fill the empty layer with plasma (Filter -> Render -> Clouds -> Plasma), then select the copy of the map, blur it and choose Filter -> Map -> Bump Map and use the plasma layer as the bump map.)

Next, select by colour to select the borders and capital-dots on the original map and cut these parts away from the copy. Delete the plasma map.)

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OK, so now we have someone who really knows what he's talking about... cool

I tried to do what you said: if you check the "compensate darkening" on the bump-mapping filter, it looks nice... only, now the sea's all bumpy. I thought I'd select capital dots, plus borders, plus the sea, and invert the selection before blurring and bump-mapping, but then, the problem seems to be that colors from the unselected part still blur (which means the area around capital dots will be lighter); and, if I cut this part away, it will either blur to background, or blur to transparent if I make the background transparent.

I don't know if all this is clear...

OK, now here's what I get, starting with a dommap output with default settings except a 500x500 size...

Original dommap output

(JPG Version)



Same map after blurring and bump-mapping

(JPG Version)

What do you all think?

(The .map file, in case you like it)