D&D Forgotten Realms map?

[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.

[Edi]

Thanks, guys.

I didn't know about the Nation Overview cut-off, so I'll prune the map quite a bit. There are lots of provinces I can combine, some that can be removed and otherwise optimized, so I suppose it'll be around 350 when I'm done. That'll also distribute them a bit more evenly around the map.

Gandalf, I took a quick look at your page, and it was quite nice. Well thought out and easy to read without any extra fluff. Me likey.

Edi

[Edi]

All right, update on this map: I've finally got the targa file finished and all the provinces placed. And boy do you gous not want to know just how much of a ***** and a half that job was, getting all of them in place, hunting out all the extra white pixels (Whee, the glaciers were fun - NOT!) and checking that they actually looked good in the map editor too. Turns out there are a grand total of around 427 provinces, maybe a couple less, so expect the map file to be ready in another two weeks or thereabouts.

Edi

[Cheezeninja]

Sweetness. I didnt even end up having to do the work