Maybe save a section at full res, it's hard to really make any comments to your question about being blurry with low res
Maybe save a section at full res, it's hard to really make any comments to your question about being blurry with low res
/drool mountains! Great work on those...by some comments, seems you're always spot on with them.
I like the forest blurriness...gives a sense of not knowing exactly where their boundaries are. The problem though, is that it goes directly against the sharpness of your mountain ranges and coastline...
The mountains are spectacular.
I can't agree with the blurriness, though. It gives me headaches just looking at it too long. The whole map could use more sharpness/focus in my opinion (that includes the mountains).
I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
@TK. Thank you! I spent a lot of time on the mountains as for the coastline, I completely forgot that I haven't redone it to fit in more, I really should get around to doing that.
@Eilathen Thank you again, and the blurriness for the forests is a problem I have, it's because of the brush I used, when scaled down so much it becomes very blurry. The pine forests look very good comparatively, but not the deciduous and definitely not the jungle. I need to find something better
Edit: Oddly enough, if I apply a sharpen filter to everything, it actually does look better. Imagine that
Last edited by eViLe_eAgLe; 12-31-2015 at 02:21 PM.
I know it has been a very long time since I last posted on this, in fact I think almost a year after my last post - but I've returned working on it finally and have reworked the mountains and the sort of 'style' i'm using as I was not pleased with the last iteration.
The comparisons are as follows:
Old
New
(I have not yet finished detailing all of the mountains yet, so please forgive the discrepancy)
And then the heavy WIP shading / colouring i'm doing for the mountains, the colors themselves are very much wip as well.
And a little color edit for fun.
My problem thus far is that while I very much do like the style of the mountains and the way they look, they would clash with a normally coloured map and to make the style feel cohesive I would have to apply a darker and slightly redish tone to most things, or something similar.
Advice would be very much appreciated.
Well, I actually prefer the old mountains, if only for their more "ridgy-er" feel. The new ones add a lot more detail, though. Also, it's gonna be an awful lot of work.
I tried similar styles for one of my maps and ended up using a mx of both. The ridges in the middle and a few single peaks and hills around them. Worked quite well. Although I guess you wouldn't want to change it yet again.
Looking forward to seeing how this'll turn out!