Map 06 - The Lands of Icewind

[arsheesh]

Nice to have you in it, and a very nice start.
Looks very moody and dark on those seas. Land looks nice.

Thanks J. That's what I was going for.

Yep, good to have you aboard!
As J said, you've got a real interesting start and I'm liking the folded paper look a lot! The shadowyness of the oceans and the mountains definitely make it a little eerie and creepy. I look forwards to where you take it!

Thanks GLS, nice to finally join in.

How do you make those landshapes?

Do you mean the mountain ranges? For those I used a slightly modified version of a method outlined by Waldronate on comment #70 of my Eriond tutorial thread. However, instead of importing the mountains and hills layers into Wilbur separately and then adding elevation to them, I created the heightmap ahead of time. As you can see, it need not be very clean. Wilbur will do the heavy lifting for you in this regard; just run the height map through quite a few stages of erosion (as to how to do this, Waldronate has several tutorials on the topic, and I've touched on it as well in my Eriond tutorial).

Oh man, this is ALREADY epic.

Wow, thanks man!

Wow, great impressive start! Already worth the wait .

On a side note, I'm wondering if we used the same paper texture (with different settings, but still...). That would be awesome!
I used this :

Thank you Ilanthar. I'm using one of CoyoteMax's textures. It looks similar to the one you posted only darker and with a few more stains:

Great work, Love the mountains.

Thanks Bogie!

I agree, can feel the hype!

Thanks Tom!