Map: New map: Hairmap

[VALIS]

Originally Posted by Sombre

It's good news that you will be making more maps and possibly drawing your own.

However I don't think your comments so far have been very fair, especially considering the two maps you've put up so far don't represent any graphical work whatsoever.

You ask "if it's so easy to do why aren't there more maps?", but you're the guy saying it's easy to do. When I was updated older maps I found just resizing graphics and rebalancing terrains and province qualities/names took hours. I know for a fact people like Pashadawg spend a lot of time working on their maps, made basically from scratch, making sure they're of high quality.

The warhammer map of the Old World for example, are you saying that was easy to do? If you find it easy I eagerly await the amazing maps you'll doubtless produce.

Thanks for the comments.

I understand I didn't have to make the woodcut. Found art somehow seems to still be regarded as valid in the art community, even if the artist didn't design or build the piece themselves. It's the finding of and the displaying of that give it value. I know you mean it didn't require *much* graphical work. There was some minor work required.

It was Ballbarian who said "Yes. It is very easy to copy an image off of the web and plop some white pixels on it." I didn't say it was easy. I just agreed. All Andy Warhol did was photocopy some photos of a soup can. That was easy. I was just wondering why if it's easy like Ballbarian said it isn't done more often.

You say it's not (and with good reason). I thought about providing individual names on the hair map based off a bunch of words about hair, but I didn't because it would have taken too much time (natch). I probably will at some point.

I'm not saying the Warhammer map was easy. I'm saying it's unoriginal and copyrighted. I mean, I'm glad it's there to do. I'm glad someone took the time to do it. It was probably a lot of work. Where are the original *fantasy* maps, is all I'm wondering. A battle across the planes, or the clouds, or in the treetops. None of that, just 'copyrighted map/copyrighted map/map from an older game/map from an older game/map made with crappy mapping program'. I'm not slamming them all. :-) Some are quite nice.

I just don't understand why I can increase the map total available on this site by 5% in one day years after the release date of this game. :-)