[Pat]

Ooooooh wow Blade those maps are something else!!! Great job on these and i love the crater!!

[blade2k5]

@Pat - Thanks.  Ever since besk explained how the compressor worked, I've been messing with it almost continuously for the past two days.

@dadyrghluv - Yes, the crater is actually a real place, except not here on Earth fortunately.  I get the hint and no, I'm not doing another cj like my previous one, if I do another, it'll basically be to showcase my building style.....dense urban areas

Here is another of my 'compressor' maps, this one a re-invisioning of an older map named Erewhon Isles and gave it a more natural look.  It's a 5x4 map, stretched a bit from it's original size and I have to say the results were stunning.  This new version is so much more realistic than the original.

SC4TF Airplane View








SC4TF Overview


Region Census View

[Pat]

Blade that is stunning!!! 

[Kitsune]

Great map, it reminds me of a stylized Antarctica...

[wouanagaine]

wow, stunning ! I love the mountains 

[rooker1]

I really like the last map because of the plateaus.  Great job on this one.

Robin   

[blade2k5]

@ Pat - Thanks again.   I hope to upload this new version and some of my other finished maps within the next couple of weeks, but now that I've figured out how to use the compressor for sc4tf and Automap, I have several dozen new maps that are either finished [I finished 7 more last night, all 4x4's], getting worked on or old projects getting a re-do.

@kitsune - Thanks and yes, it is a template of Antartica minus the ice shelf.  I had originally drew the template out by hand for a D&D map [yes, I'm an avid D&D player, have been playing since '79], liked the shape of the continent and decided to transfer it to sc4 as a map.  I'm glad you like it.

@wou - Thanks wou!  If it wasn't for your genius , these great maps couldn't be done to this extent and we wouldn't be sitting here googling over these maps.

@ rooker1 - Thank you, I like the plateau's myself, adds for some interesting developing.

More pics of new maps to come soon......

[Berethor]

excellent work on the last map, I like a lot the islands with mountains   
Hope to see more soon! 

[blade2k5]

excellent work on the last map, I like a lot the islands with mountains     
Hope to see more soon!

Thank Berethor   I'm glad you liked the Erewhon Isles map...it would most likely good good with your pyramid lots

Ok, I have a 3rd map finished and ready for upload, but because I do want to 'flood' the market with too many maps at once, I thought I'd let you, my fans, friends and supporters, decide which of the 3 maps gets uploaded first.  Here are the 3 candidates:

The first map for consideration, Map 51, is the latest of the re-vamping of my old hand-drawn with Paint maps that I've opened up in sc4tf and tinkered with.  I used the compressor tool a couple of times and then had to smooth this out because the elevation variations were just a tad to obvious.


SC4TF Overview


Satellite View



The second map for consideration is Map 52, another re-vamp of an older map and basically did the same thing with this as I did Map 51 when tinkering with in SC4TF....

SC4TF Overview


Satellite View



And the final map for consideration is Erewhon Isles, another re-vamp of an alder map.  The same techniques were used on this map as Map 51/52, but raised the elevation of the mountains much higher than the original had.  I also think this version looks way better than the original.

SC4TF Overview


Satellite View


You'll have until midnight, U.S. EST, December 31st to get your pick posted.  Whichever map gets the most nods will be uploaded on New Years Day as my first new map [of many, many more to come ], of the year. 

Thanks for dropping by and enjoy!

[Pat]

one nod for Erewhon Isles to get uploaded first!!!

Second would be 51

third would be 52

[Shadow Assassin]

Erewhon! It's nowhere special...

[blade2k5]

Ok, Erewhon Isles has now been uploaded to the LEX and STEX and is available for your dl'ing pleasure

[DFire870]

Ooh, Erewhon looks great! Glad you uploaded it, because I've been looking for an island map to use and I couldn't find one that had what I needed, but this one has it all. Great work!

-- John

[blade2k5]

Thanks DFire870.  This happens to be one of my personal favorites and i couldn't resist re-vamping this old map with sc4tf from he original grayscale I drew in Paint.  I hope you enjoy developing it and thanks again for dl'ing.

[blade2k5]

I thought I'd share my latest map on the fast track to being completed, one that I have been working on off and on all day.  This one is a 7x7 large tile region that features a peninsula with a piece of the mainland surrounded by various sized islands.  I started the drawing of this map on paper using a .001 fine point black marker [I can write readable newspaper-sized text with this pen...thing cost me $10], then scanned the black white to my pc and began the greyscale transformation using Paint, as I like to draw my mountains and rivers/lakes in. 

The two pics below show the first two stages of the project after the scan.  The first was taken just after I finished Painting in the water and land.  The second was taken after I had drawn in some hills and mountains and is where the productions sits at the moment.  With this map, I hope to get the right mix of flat to mountains/hills, so at the moment, what hills/mtns added are not permanent.

If any of my NHP partners wanna lend a hand...well, you know what to do

[blade2k5]

Update time on the new map which I think I'll call Barsalon...has a nice ring to it and I have two more sc4tf overview shots of the last two stages of development.  In stage 3 as you can see in the pic below, I drew in some new terrain features including a crater on the northern most island and dotted the peninsula and isles with hills and small mountains.


As you can see in the pic below, the north-eastern section of the map has transformed to a more detailed area and is beginning to take shape. I raised the elevation around the hills in that area, sat back awhile and just stared at it, pondering what to do next.  Then I noticed the three inlets leading into the western-most bay and imagined a river flowing down from the hills and branching into a delta area.  Once done with that, I sat back again for a bit and stared at my handywork and did a little more pondering on what direction to go next.  For some reason, some old Nat Geo map image of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers came to mind and the second river to the west was quickly drawn in.  Also, the crater now has a small pond in it's center

[Heblem]

wow really nice map looks like greece  

[Shadow Assassin]

This is shaping up very well so far. I wonder what the final result would be...

[Pat]

Troy that is looking real sweet, now where's the airplane view lol....

[blade2k5]

Ok, got another update on the Barsalon map.  I've been feverishly trying to get it done tonight, but it doesn't look like it will be done until later in the week.  For now though, I've gotten beyond the drawing stage and am now working on it with sc4tf.  The first two pics are the final two stages of drawing the map using Paint and the third is what I've gotten done so far in sc4tf.