Mappiness

[ladylight]

I finally found a fractal generator! Eureka! And it's a goodie - instead of just generating random terrains and expecting you to settle for something -similar- to what you want, you can edit the physical features, change the climate in certain areas, generate rivers/rainfall and ... urm ... everything.

So I've made a map of Inyaron as per sharaith-petal's

Comments

[sahuarita]

Oooh, how very fractal. I love it.

I also love that it is a southern hemisphere continent! There are simply not enough Australia-equivalents in fantasy literature, in my humble opinion. Australia seems like a most cool place.

I'm going to go visit someday. I swear. (Australia, not Inyaron. Though if it were possible, I'd visit there, too!)

[sahuarita]

Oh my. I just looked at the worldbuilders site (typical of me. Comment and THEN actually follow the links in the post) and that is AMAZING. I am very envious. That sort of thing is the dream that pushes me on to graduate. I will be able to afford that someday .. BUT ONLY WHEN I GET OUT OF SCHOOL. :)

Although of course, I doubt I would get the full value out of it. I'd mess around with it when I was bored, but would probably throw my hands up in frustration and give up when discovering that MY renderings could never look as gorgeous as these people's.

[ladylight]

That's one of the major reasons I would never pay serious money for a suite like that, however good it was. There should be hobbyist prices. ;)

But yes! Money! I miss money! X( I did have it in Japan, but it has been sorely missed this last year ...

[ladylight]

It occurred to me that I've spent most of my life writing about trees, animals and climates I know very little about ;) so I switched to Australiana for Dragonmakers. (There will be no kangaroos hopping across the page, however.)

And yes, you must visit! ;D

[shanra]

GAH! Those are gorgeous! And the map is lovely. ^-^ Absolutely lovely.

And that's all I'm good for today, I'm afraid. Great to have something to go with the stories, though. Always nice to have a sense of place and space. ^-^

[ladylight]

Thanks! It took hours, but they were happy hours. And the whole time I was fiddling with climate I kept thinking, "I'm contributing to Inyaron's global warming problem!" *sillies*

[sharaith]

Shiny! My maps aren't anywhere near as cool. I just draw them in class and trace them over in Photoshop. I'll have to try one of these programs out someday, when I manage to overcome my chronic laziness. ^_^

So... which areas are under human control and which are under Fae? And which city is the Iron Hold in? *is too lazy to go and puzzle it out* :P

[ladylight]

No, your map's lovely. I vastly prefer line maps to colour-fill maps ... I just prefer the look of fractal coastline for a few truth-is-stranger-than-fiction land features. ;) I'll probably end up printing out this version, tracing the fractal outlines and then making my own adjustments/fills (though granted, my map of Khacte's been waiting for that for five years now

[ladylight]

Get, get! It's only 14Mb or so! You can leave your puter running overnight like I did for mine! ;D

[ladylight]

Dooo iiiit ... dooo iiiit ... downloooad iiiit ...

[saiena]

Mpas! Maps! Maps! Yay for maps!

*brr* I can see why some people might have issues with the location of Port Suthmost - I knew it was southerly, but I didn't realise quite how southern it was.

Anywho, very nice, me dear ^_^

[ladylight]

Ta! Southerly southerly it is. *bwahas* Though I do want to tweak some of it in my drawn version - it should be sub-polar rather than fully polar, but still adjoining the Southern Ice. And I think I want Inyaron to be higher than Loria. And I may trim bits off Loria *wields scissors*.