VÍGVELLIR – make and show your own maps
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lllAnteklll
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Nice! Wonderful!
Celtichugs
Sergeant Knight at Arms
Hrotha, would be my guess. Basically anyone in lingo with JestServers - or whatever that terrible hosting company is called - so they can send it to them to upload it to the server box.
There's a couple of maps that could use some very minor tweaks and fixes. The following come to mind:
- Middeltun: Remove the impassable bushes of horse-slaying
- Se Gierdweg: Fix the ghost fences
- Fjarðaríss: Remove the plank so that it's not possible to camp the ice like a turd
I was able to locate and restore the pre-1.0 fix version of Abingawurð, which you had already fixed and which somehow was lost during the update, so that one's been taken care of. I get the same issue with the menu windows on the editor, by the way. That's a large part of why I never got into mapmaking. :\
Alright I need some opinions, I've been meaning to do this map for a long time but each attempt was terrible, so I finally made one that I think is looking much better than previous attempts, so I need to know whether I should continue making this or just stop.
The Map is Thingvellir in Iceland, after visiting there two years ago and again last year ive wanted to make a map of it. Now Please no one tell me about how the islands are wrong, I am well aware that they have shifted greatly since the 11th century, but since it is impossible to know how that would have looked like since it shifts so much, I decided to keep it close to its modern appearance.
Basic layout before editing
The Map so far
Yellow is where I intend to put bridges
The Map is Thingvellir in Iceland, after visiting there two years ago and again last year ive wanted to make a map of it. Now Please no one tell me about how the islands are wrong, I am well aware that they have shifted greatly since the 11th century, but since it is impossible to know how that would have looked like since it shifts so much, I decided to keep it close to its modern appearance.
Basic layout before editing
http://imgur.com/a/1RnSE
Yellow is where I intend to put bridges
Celtichugs
Sergeant Knight at Arms
Looks a good map for SWE.
Are maps difficult to make btw?
Are maps difficult to make btw?
Celtichugs said:
Well that depends really. Learning the basics of making a map isn't hard but the artistic bits take some practise and skill. Also creativity. Mechanically they're not that difficult to make.
Celtichugs
Sergeant Knight at Arms
Okay, because we're really looking for some very basic and realistic maps for SWE events.
Éadric
Knight at Arms
I was thinking of Ceosolford. (Old English ceosol means 'gravel, shingle'. Compare Dutch kiezel 'gravel'.)
It's not a very spectacular map and I'd prefer to add more trees and shrubs to make it look more wooded and natural, but for the sake of performance I'd better not.
As for map making in general, the basics are simple and easy, but getting the landscape molded into hills and dales of one's specific imagination can be quite a challenge.
It's not a very spectacular map and I'd prefer to add more trees and shrubs to make it look more wooded and natural, but for the sake of performance I'd better not.
As for map making in general, the basics are simple and easy, but getting the landscape molded into hills and dales of one's specific imagination can be quite a challenge.
It kinda looks like a place near where I live. Along the River Trent. 
Hugh Higgins said:It kinda looks like a place near where I live. Along the River Trent.
Hey! I live there too.
Needs a discarded shopping trolley though.
