04-08-2010, 03:54 PM
Thanks for the heads up on the disappearing water! 
I'd turned the river layer off to work on something, and forgot to turn it back on before saving the png - Gimp defaults to merging only the visible layers, and I didn't refresh the page once I'd uploaded it to check. That'll teach me!
It's actually a very useful option, because if someone just wanted a terrain map - no roads or cities or text labels - three mouse clicks, save the file, and there it is.
The main reason I put your map onto the hex grid and compared it is because Rafael wants to use your map as canon for your campaign - so if I was going to attempt a link to the Judges Guild maps, I didn't want to encroach on the territory your map covers.
Once I saw the results, it was pretty cool, I agree!
It also gives Rafael a starting place to work from if he wants to move west or south (or north or east!) with his own hex maps - being able to link in with yours will hopefully be useful to him.
Edit: It seems weird to see my maps on your semi-official site - but good!
You might want to upload the latest DA3 map, as I'd missed off the city marker for Windhoek - at the moment the label is on an empty mountain.
It was one of the problems of not having the "real" maps to work from - the scans are so indistinct in places once imported into Gimp that I was getting eye strain! Hopefully all of the noticeable errors have been picked up now.
I just have one last check to do tomorrow and the 5 mile/hex map will be ready to upload too - I finished the labelling tonight.
I'd turned the river layer off to work on something, and forgot to turn it back on before saving the png - Gimp defaults to merging only the visible layers, and I didn't refresh the page once I'd uploaded it to check. That'll teach me!
It's actually a very useful option, because if someone just wanted a terrain map - no roads or cities or text labels - three mouse clicks, save the file, and there it is.
The main reason I put your map onto the hex grid and compared it is because Rafael wants to use your map as canon for your campaign - so if I was going to attempt a link to the Judges Guild maps, I didn't want to encroach on the territory your map covers.
Once I saw the results, it was pretty cool, I agree!
It also gives Rafael a starting place to work from if he wants to move west or south (or north or east!) with his own hex maps - being able to link in with yours will hopefully be useful to him.
Edit: It seems weird to see my maps on your semi-official site - but good!
You might want to upload the latest DA3 map, as I'd missed off the city marker for Windhoek - at the moment the label is on an empty mountain.
It was one of the problems of not having the "real" maps to work from - the scans are so indistinct in places once imported into Gimp that I was getting eye strain! Hopefully all of the noticeable errors have been picked up now.
I just have one last check to do tomorrow and the 5 mile/hex map will be ready to upload too - I finished the labelling tonight.