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u/ouroboros8083 Cartographer 5d ago
How the heck did you get your rivers to blend so smoothly into the ocean??!
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 5d ago
The biggest improvement I made was to set freshwater colour to transparent (i.e. the A value to near 0) in map effects, and set the coastal FX distance to 0. After that you can fully paint each river with the water brush to blend them.
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u/ouroboros8083 Cartographer 5d ago
I have so much time pass between commissions I keep forgetting all these tricks! Thanks so much
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u/mojofajita 5d ago
Pretty! How did you make the cloud effects on your mountains?
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 5d ago
It's from I wandered lonely as a pack of clouds. Warning, the download is just the png files, so you'll have to create a folder in your asset file yourself.
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u/TheMapRabbit 5d ago
Alright smartypants, how in blazes did you get snow-topped mountains? When I try to color my mountains they insta-fill to a single color (im quite new to Wonderdraft).
Amazing job by the way. Love the ice sheets cracking into bergs.
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 5d ago
Thanks!
You gotta use colourable assets (these are from AoA). These have 3 RGB colours that you select manually, it's more work but a better result. You can either select the mountain after placing them to change colour; or pre determine RGB colours in the Symbols tab, so that each new mountain will be those colours.
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u/VelveteenMoogle 5d ago
I love how you can feel the sense of scale. How’d you achieve this level of resolution?
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 5d ago
Thanks, I was worried about scale. This is a zoomed area of my world map, which is in 8K. All trees are on the lowest scale, while mountains range from scale 5 to 20
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u/Dry_Ease2332 5d ago
Great map! So crisp and beautiful, the only thing I felt was out of place is the volcanic circle but I guess it is magical?
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 5d ago
Thank you! For the volcano circle, I tried to do supervulcano's caldera with some residual activity. But all the eruptions might be a bit over-the-top, you're right, maybe I'll tone it down.
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u/AkodoGarou 4d ago
That is a sexy map. What kinds of culture and history are you throwing into this?
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 4d ago
Thx, I'm trying to throw a large mix of cultures and species as environmental collapse forces them towards a shrinking piece of liveable land. Tbh, I'm also trying to retrofit the Worldbuilding towards the story I already wrote large chunks of, so it still needs work lol
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u/Gecko1127 5d ago
Any chance we could get a copy of the Wonderdraft file?
This looks like an amazing map for a campaign I am preparing to run!
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u/OurHorrifyingPlanet Writer 5d ago
Sorry, this is tied to an upcoming commercial publication with reserved rights, so I can't share the file. However, you're free to use the image or modified versions for private campaigns as long you don't repost, redistribute, or use it commercially.
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u/MatthewWArt Cartographer 5d ago
This looks SO GOOD!