Conquer Club

I like the smudge for the first map picture, gives a blizzardy feel. Make roosevelt island bigger so it touches Marie Byrd Land. You made up most of those names didnt u? High Low Land, Reverend Kyle Land, Reverend Drew Land.

gavin_sidhu wrote:I like the smudge for the first map picture, gives a blizzardy feel. Make roosevelt island bigger so it touches Marie Byrd Land. You made up most of those names didnt u? High Low Land, Reverend Kyle Land, Reverend Drew Land.

I didn't like the smudge of the first map until I combined it with the texture...

also.. I made up those 3 names.. none of the other ones.


speaking of which newest update




This was mostly as par marvaddins suggestion..


I added iceburgs for the non crossable.... I changed the font in russia's claim and part of australias(russias is different than australias) as the 2 fonts I think look best... thoughts?

Ok i have read all the post and i believe that you have showed the people that did not believe the map would be any good however i do believe you need to change the colour of the map where Australia's claim is it is to similar to New Zealand.

Maybe on the background instead of the one you have you could change it to pictures of animals which are common to antarctica.

Zhong Shan doesnt sound very australian.

You can hardly tell the smudge in this image.

I agree with GavSid, plus the font on Concordia and Casey is better. argentina's too dark. nz and australia are too similar. if you want to keep the colors feel free to make the text white. hey wait that's a good idea? Icy-ish. But the colors are just too similar on Australia and NZ and South pole. The key has the same trouble that Ireland did. But too much blue.

The colours of Australia's Claim and New Zealand's Clame would be alright if the conginents were not right next to each other. Maybe you should switch the colours of Australia's and Britain's claim.

I say it should be Norway. We can't have so many blues right next to each other.

as of now I cant figure out how i'd do that because it'd take alot of backtracking... and I asked my friend and he could figure it out so I will see.

reverend_kyle wrote:as of now I cant figure out how i'd do that because it'd take alot of backtracking... and I asked my friend and he could figure it out so I will see.

U made it hard because your using textures. Its very hard to work with textures in GIMP, to change the colour u have to get rid of the texture and then add the texture a different colour (well thats how i do it) I think ud need to use the select by colour button, or u could just use the erasor.

yeah i wouls change the colour of Norway's and Australia's

there are some countries with a different font... Concordia, Casey & Russia's countries

maritovw wrote:there are some countries with a different font... Concordia, Casey & Russia's countries

And it's better

maritovw wrote:there are some countries with a different font... Concordia, Casey & Russia's countries

those are experimental fonts because no one liked my real fonts.

gavin_sidhu wrote:

reverend_kyle wrote:as of now I cant figure out how i'd do that because it'd take alot of backtracking... and I asked my friend and he could figure it out so I will see.

U made it hard because your using textures. Its very hard to work with textures in GIMP, to change the colour u have to get rid of the texture and then add the texture a different colour (well thats how i do it) I think ud need to use the select by colour button, or u could just use the erasor.

how do I remove texture.

Just wondering, what program do you use to make your maps?

gimp.

whoa, I've never heard of this before. I was just looking at it and so pretty much its like adobe photoshop right? and is it free?

yeah its free.. i am very good on photoshop but It costs money so I changed to this..

Tho only thing that I have to suggest about this map is:

1. Make the water not so crazy. All the white just messes with my eyes, I think it makes the map look sloppy.

2. Make the mountains more real. You used the exact same looking mountain shape.... and it dosnt really look like a moutain to me.

3. Make everything clearer. It seems like someone just took an eraser and just went over the whole picture, sorta smearing things.

I'm sure that some of things things will make the map look more playable. I hope you consider some of these suggestions.

Kyle

lilwdlnddude wrote:Tho only thing that I have to suggest about this map is:

1. Make the water not so crazy. All the white just messes with my eyes, I think it makes the map look sloppy.

2. Make the mountains more real. You used the exact same looking mountain shape.... and it dosnt really look like a moutain to me.

3. Make everything clearer. It seems like someone just took an eraser and just went over the whole picture, sorta smearing things.

I'm sure that some of things things will make the map look more playable. I hope you consider some of these suggestions.

Kyle

1.working on changes to the water..

2. they arent mountains necessarily more like giant ice burgs.. and I like the graphic I have..

3. that was sort of the effect I was going for.. I feel it makes it look more blizzardly.

Get ur map and use gaussian blur, it may end up looking better (then again it may not)

To get Guassian blur, click Filters>Blur>Gaussian blur. I think it might give a blizzardy feel to the map.

lilwdlnddude wrote:Just wondering, what program do you use to make your maps?

revrend_kyle wrote:gimp.

Hey, how would one go about getting GIMP on windows? I was looking a little bit and I didn't take the time to figure it out myself, so can anyone tell me how?

cramill wrote:

lilwdlnddude wrote:Just wondering, what program do you use to make your maps?

revrend_kyle wrote:gimp.

Hey, how would one go about getting GIMP on windows? I was looking a little bit and I didn't take the time to figure it out myself, so can anyone tell me how?

desau explains it in landgrabs map factory.

cramill wrote:

lilwdlnddude wrote:Just wondering, what program do you use to make your maps?

revrend_kyle wrote:gimp.

Hey, how would one go about getting GIMP on windows? I was looking a little bit and I didn't take the time to figure it out myself, so can anyone tell me how?

type in download Gimp into google and it will come up. Alternatively u could just click the link in the map making thread. Also when you download it, one version crashes when you create a text box, so use have to make sure u download the latest one.