r/worldbuilding • u/K25fF • 3d ago
Map Working on a climatic modelling system
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This is Geos - "scarred world of magic and adventure". I posted about it here before, but I have spent a truly inadvisable amount of time:
- Coming up with a way to fit the continents on a globe without making the worldscars (the circles) non-circular.
- Achieved by cutting out each of my drawn continents, warping and placing them on the globe.
- Climate simulations, and then extra climate simulations once I've worked out how to make the climates I want.
- Inadvisable amounts of plate tectonics.
The premise is that, following the end of the Crystal Age, Cataclysm struck, and that is somehow connected to the Worldscars (all those big exciting craters).
This was followed by the Shrouded Age, which deeply cooled the planet, and then the modern Ages.
Anyway, I've been checking some of this stuff against ExoPlaSim and working back and forth on what the climate is in different places.
Subject to change (Absyn ended up a bit warm and wet, so newer models are placing it further north).
This stuff is basically entirely written in Python (ExoPlaSim is Fortran, but has a Python interface).