Kilo and I have bundled our forces and are working on one massive map template together. The goal being that after we finish the start stuff, then we'd always have a very strong base for any map we'd want to make. Be it about the Nabateans or about central Europe in the 11th century. Kilo snipped some maps together (which is why the map projection doesn't really feature much of a curvature except at the snips), I enlarged the map significantly, so that we're now at 17221x11671pixels (!). Then we splitted it now up further so that Kilo can draw the mountains with some fancy new software he has, whilst I can take care of the rivers... Which I so far have only done for Spain, and as per tradition way too many of them (see the first map in the second contentbox). But that's ok, since I then just used a layermask to switch most of them off, and should either of us need any of the smaller rivers, we can just make them visible again.
| Anyway. For the "large map" (scaled down for less load times etc.) click here. |
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| The map is, in spite of its scale, good enough for a mountain nerd such as me that I can use it to illustrate e.g. someone crossing the Great St. Bernhard pass in sufficient detail |
In that case one would have to start in Ivrea, go into the Aosta valley and the eponymous city, then up a side valley, cross the Bernhard pass itself, down a different side valley, then the first bit of the upper Rhone valley before the river makes its bend, then along the Lac Leman to Lausanne. The above map isn't zoomed in. |
For those interested as to how I scaled it up without much quality loss, I used inkscape to trace the topographic maps. I did so in 20 steps, and therefore if you were to recreate a topographical map from the heightmap it would look like this:
I chose Spain as a testing ground, even though for OWaP this region is quite unimportant, though the year is once more approximately 1080. But the geography is easier to separate from the rest, compared to Italy, which I'll probably do next.
I have to work region after region and later snip them together again anyway, as working on large sizes is always a pain.
| For Spanish maps click here |
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Fonts are probably not good here, I should switch to some others, did it relatively on the quick, and the white inside the red city circles is there to put some symbols if I choose to. E.g. moons for the muslim controlled ones or something else.
I'm also kind of split with regards to colourisation. You can see three alternatives. One is fully coloured, one is only with either land or sea coloured, since colouring the other then kinda feels redundant. Plus I like the parchment I rendered myself since finding one premade with the required massive size wasn't really an option. Parchment again is only half done; no dirt or blood or other stains, edges aren't destroyed etc. Just the pure parchment because of my laziness.
Credit to Akar for nice CK3 screens (as well as other help) from one of which I cropped out the Muslim ruler as an experiment.
As per usual, all feedback would be greatly appreciated, especially criticism that helps improve.
Re: Cookiegods eye cancer workshop
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), but I agree that the "A" is too mangled. Maybe leave a bit more intact. Also, I am very proud of myself for not pouncing on the comment that "the 'A' is far too destroyed". Just saying... 
