Antartica Map [Vacation]

rocksolid · Post by **rocksolid** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:25 am

Hey Kyle,

For smoothing the lines using Gimp - can't remember if this is what I did but I think it worked for me.

Select all your borders - try doing a select by colour on black, hopefully your text is in a different layer so it won't pick that up - copy then paste as a new layer, use one of the blur filters (like Gaussian blur), then play with the levels on that new layer so all the greys become full black. Pm me if you need to.

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:43 pm

Only now Im looking better at this map. It has many problems. See: maps that are one piece only, like Brazil, Germany, USA... they hardly can be done without some unpassable borders. No need to be geographically accurate, or rivers, mountains, but borders. See the number of border countries and countries in your map (they are usually very high):

Russia claim: 3/3
South Pole: 4/4
Australia claim: 5/8
Argentina claim: 3/6
Norway claim: 3/7
Britain clain: 4/5
Chile claim: 3/3
New Zealand claim: 5/5

I counted 41 countries to 8 continents. Maybe we can have some less continents, and it could be easier have some less borders...

I also cant understand the names of the countries of South Pole... they are pretty ridiculous. Is there a reason for them?

And I dislike the background. The continent seems to be in the rain

Rulic · Post by **Rulic** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:00 pm

How about we put up a map of this guy's face?
Face

Mod Edit: (Psst I like to keep the Foundry threads somewhat clean)

thegrimsleeper · Post by **thegrimsleeper** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:08 pm

That's really nasty, and you should have started your own jokey thread instead of degenerating the integrity of this one.

Now that that's over with, I've pulled a few images off google image that should help you out with your natural border situation.

The original size is here:
http://www.domenicofeliciani.com/wordpr ... rctica.PNG

This one is good for seeing the mountain range that runs through the continent before the peninsula...

Jota · Post by **Jota** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:19 pm

I agree with grim about the picture. Would you mind at least switching that from an image tag to a url tag, Rulic?

Oh, and images like the ones grim posted would probably make for a nice background texture.

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:18 pm

Jota wrote:I agree with grim about the picture. Would you mind at least switching that from an image tag to a url tag, Rulic?

Oh, and images like the ones grim posted would probably make for a nice background texture.

for my ice thing? i think you're right.

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:19 pm

rocksolid wrote:Hey Kyle,

For smoothing the lines using Gimp - can't remember if this is what I did but I think it worked for me.

Select all your borders - try doing a select by colour on black, hopefully your text is in a different layer so it won't pick that up - copy then paste as a new layer, use one of the blur filters (like Gaussian blur), then play with the levels on that new layer so all the greys become full black. Pm me if you need to.

I actually think i have a separate layer for my borders.

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:20 pm

Marvaddin wrote:And I dislike the background. The continent seems to be in the rain

I actually like the rain pattern on the background but if people think that that isn't good, i will attempt to change it

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:32 pm

Here's the next update,
This update brings
--borders with gaussian blur(did it even them out?)
--Natural borders(no those aren't my final mountains when i find an image that works i delete this layer)
--Vostok with my proposed new font.
--Black names in key.

rocksolid · Post by **rocksolid** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:10 pm

Don't think the blur quite worked - borders are still cornery. The layers can get stupid sometimes - try it again but before doing so do "layer to image size" on the borders layer.

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:59 am

rocksolid wrote:Don't think the blur quite worked - borders are still cornery. The layers can get stupid sometimes - try it again but before doing so do "layer to image size" on the borders layer.

, can you pinpoint specific poinst and i could try to fix them by hand?

rocksolid · Post by **rocksolid** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:57 pm

Hmm...pretty well all of them...e.g. all the borders of Schwaben land...you want them all to look like the McMurdo side of the southern McMurdo border, which seems to be good.

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:04 pm

i''ll try the gaussian blur with your suggestion again, hope it works.

haha · Post by **haha** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:44 pm

for the bondrys or what ever there called u could have mealting ice burgs

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:50 am

haha wrote:for the bondrys or what ever there called u could have mealting ice burgs

thatswhat i've been trying. I cant find an image i want to use though.

NightWolf · Post by **NightWolf** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:32 pm

are those territories divided based on who owns what parts of Antartica? If that is the case, whoever it is that thought that up has got to be AWESOME! i would help with the idea if i knew more about this map making stuff but my knowledge on it is too vague

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:41 am

NightWolf wrote:are those territories divided based on who owns what parts of Antartica? If that is the case, whoever it is that thought that up has got to be AWESOME! i would help with the idea if i knew more about this map making stuff but my knowledge on it is too vague

Yes it is, Someone mentiioned it in the forum but its really the only logical way to divide antarctica.

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:51 am

newest update.. I tried to make the borders look better.. did I? yes or no?

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:15 am

newest update... with texture...

what do you guys think?

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:28 pm

the word for russia in the key is too bright and the font for the countries is hideous... the non-textured is better

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:59 pm

happysadfun wrote:the word for russia in the key is too bright and the font for the countries is hideous... the non-textured is better

Its the same font in both.. and I realized that the words in the key weren't black I am changing that back.

happysadfun · Post by **happysadfun** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:38 pm

reverend_kyle wrote:
happysadfun wrote:the word for russia in the key is too bright and the font for the countries is hideous... the non-textured is better

Its the same font in both.. and I realized that the words in the key weren't black I am changing that back.

i know but overall the top one comes together better

TitusFinn · Post by **TitusFinn** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:52 pm

DUDE! Haven't been in the map section in awhile, just clicked on it from Rev's sig. Nice map you've got going Rev! I can't wait to play it!

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:22 am

happysadfun wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:
happysadfun wrote:the word for russia in the key is too bright and the font for the countries is hideous... the non-textured is better

Its the same font in both.. and I realized that the words in the key weren't black I am changing that back.

i know but overall the top one comes together better

font can be changed..

Marvaddin · Post by **Marvaddin** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:40 am

I like the textures, but you could use more instead of 1 or 2.

Main art things you can change: the background, fonts, and mainly that non crossable things. Oh, you could change some names, like Amundsen Scott Land (I thing its very big), re-design some countries, because some are bigger than they need, and others are tiny.

Later, we can also discuss some playability things.