Map of Moonshae
Finally got back to finishing this map of the Moonshae isles. As a destination for seafaring dnd games, I wanted to reflect that in this naval map style. The topography was drawn as a very blocky approximate height map using procreate with hand drawn bitmap masks marking the sea and rivers to control the geography before running an erosion simulation in Gaea to make it look more realistic before rendering. Then all the other map stuff was added in photoshop, Inkscape and procreate on iPad. I tried a number of packages and settled on Gaea for erosion simulations, I even wrote a simple python script to do it which did work, but I needed the control a commercial package like Gaea gave me. I planned to export to blender for rendering but I liked the Gaea render enough and it’s already overly complex process. I’d like to try again, the process was way more fussy than I wanted, but I’m happy with the final map, I’d love to experiment more with maps like this as I think this kind of map had real possibilities. I’ll post a video about it shortly, explaining the process more… #map #cartography #cartographer #mapmaker #maps #faerun #moonshae
Finally got back to finishing this map of the Moonshae isles. As a destination for seafaring dnd games, I wanted to reflect that in this naval map style. The topography was drawn as a very blocky approximate height map using procreate with hand drawn bitmap masks marking the sea and rivers to control the geography before running an erosion simulation in Gaea to make it look more realistic before rendering. Then all the other map stuff was added in photoshop, Inkscape and procreate on iPad. I tried a number of packages and settled on Gaea for erosion simulations, I even wrote a simple python script to do it which did work, but I needed the control a commercial package like Gaea gave me. I planned to export to blender for rendering but I liked the Gaea render enough and it’s already overly complex process. I’d like to try again, the process was way more fussy than I wanted, but I’m happy with the final map, I’d love to experiment more with maps like this as I think this kind of map had real possibilities. I’ll post a video about it shortly, explaining the process more… #map #cartography #cartographer #mapmaker #maps #faerun #moonshae