#digital maps

[triaelf9]

This month's TRPG assets are up in the Adventure Archive, a collection of 284 items! 

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[cornymaps]

Even in the great halls of Elysium there are troubles. This map is available to my $5 tier patrons! Signing up gets you access to 20 high res maps! http://patreon.com/CornyMaps

[cronchy-baguette]

happy late birthday to bg3!!! here's the tadpookies (and their Little Guys) in their red carpet bests!

[tasweerpk]

Transforming Memories into Custom City and Star Map Portraits | Tasweer PK

Tasweer combines over a decade of printing understanding with an ardor for digital artwork, developing personalized city and famous person map pics. We rework your unique reminiscences into lovely, custom-designed artwork, shooting the essence of your most meaningful reviews. Whether it is a memorable location or a vast moment in the stars, our digital maps and snapshots are crafted to mirror the unique memories that rely most on you. Let Tasweer convey your reminiscences to lifestyles with lovely, one-of-a-kind portions that mix art and emotion.

[archivegeo]

take a jacket just in case

[heedzhee-art]

nice redstone gremlin

[chowbaw]

Aaand that's a wrap! Keep staying fresh.

[samyazasheaven]

Speaking in the third person... AM -- which is I -- AM is satisfied with the sacrifice. He -- that is to say, I -- will spare the village his -- that is to say, my -- wrath for today. I have -- as I said before -- spoken.

(black and white version under the cut)

[elore813]

They’re lost I think

[fellkyd]

They tried to skip class.

At least they left something memorable

[spicy-apple-pie]

DC I'm begging please bring back Damian's friends PLEASE

Commission Info / Kofi

[iloivar]

There is nothing quite like a big paper map.

You can put a finger on one spot and look around at other stuff nearby and then easily return to where your finger is.

They can also be incredibly beautiful.

On the other hand, a paper map can’t read you directions or alert you to speed traps.

So there are pros and cons either way, really.

[cornymaps]

The mist rolls in what's hiding between the canyons. This is available to my $10 patrons! http://Patreon.com/Cornymaps

[exoartmakes]

Mass Effect galaxy map - repainted and plotted with all known Mass Relay connections from the main series games.

I have made one addition with the Luminous Expanse, to represent the location of the Hanar homeworld. I also made some educated guesses as to the placement of locations such as Tartarus and the Nemean Abyss.

[accoffee7]

I'm new to the community and I wanted to draw him soo bad, I got past some art block by getting inspired by some other artists here. (I am still not quite sure how I wanna stylize dude though...also I can never draw people consistently lol) I started playing postal 2 while my friend watched, we joked and stuff, then I played postal 1997 and loved the loading screen art/ambiance. This game series is a goldmine for shitposts or like, genuinely angsty art and I love that.

[cmaidaartworkblog]

This video showcases my Blender model of the planet that the Scud aliens call home, the fourth and final world I've mapped out for @jayrockin's "Runaway to the Stars" project. A *lot* of maps were created in service of this final render, and also in service of presenting the special qualities of this planet. I intend to show you as many of these as I can under the cut, and also in subsequent posts focusing on some of the more interstitial, ancillary maps and figures that played a part in producing the primary maps you'll see in this main post.

Before I show the first maps I made for this project, what you see below are the satellite-style maps for the Equinoxes and Solstices, in order of (Northern) Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, the latter serving as the texture for the Blender object you saw in the video.

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With that matter covered, our next focus is this project's foundation: Geology. While I didn't spin as elaborate a tectonic history for this planet as I did for the Ayrum commission, I did work out as much detail as I could for the more recent geological activity, to set the stage for the elevation data - including a narrower focus on the coastal shallows that host the Scud populations.

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Once I could move on to climate, my first step was finding this planet's relative Insolation, which I managed thanks to @reversedumbrella's code and coaching. With an obliquity of only 16 degrees, this planet's yearly maximum Insolation levels stick close to the equator, compared to pole-to-pole oscillation we see on Earth

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Having a rough sense of where heat would concentrate seasonally and how the landmasses would deflect water in light of the planet's retrograde spin, I was able to set down the bi-annual ocean currents (Northern Summer above and Northern Winter below), then the monthly water temperatures pushed around by said currents, and finally -after factoring in many other considerations- the monthly land temperatures as well (combined in the second gif)

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Next came the seasonal air pressure maps and subsequent wind patterns (my first time creating those from scratch), which later factored into the precipitation maps. The incredible temperatures at the largest continent's interior make a desert of most of it, and the other interiors are fairly dry too, but all that heat on the equatorial ocean generates a *lot* of evaporation which ends up coming down elsewhere.

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With temperatures and precipitation mapped out for each month, I was able to find how the accumulation and melt of ice and snow played out, too. Given such a hot equator it's surprising to see freezing temperatures hold out in some places, but low obliquity and high elevation shield what areas they can, it seems.

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All this monthly data was then painstakingly combined and compared and plugged into equations to produce maps of discrete climate zones, using both the Köppen (left) and Trewartha (right) classification systems. The higher latitudes see some overlap with Earth's conditions, but the Tropics...

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I never really finished the map I wanted to make with my own loosely customized classification system, but I *did* get as far as this breakdown of the areas that sometimes surpass 56.7 degrees Celsius, Earth's record for highest surface temperature ever directly measured. And as you can see, that earthly record is broken by a *significant* fraction of this planet's surface, and far exceeded by the equatorial continent's deep interior

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The final phase of this project dealt with creating satellite maps of this planet's surface (which you saw at the top of this post), which started with a map of dry and submerged substrate, then a density map of the vegetation that sits atop it, then the colors of that vegetation under annual average conditions (demonstrating how they would appear in-person, rather than the area's appearance from orbit), and finally plant colors under seasonal conditions (same conceit as previous). In concert with the seasonal ice and snow maps, it was the four maps in the last sequence which were overlaid on the Substrate map, using the plant density map as raster masks, to produce the final Satellite-Style maps.

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This planet's sophonts being a marine species, it was then worth focusing on the conditions underwater, which included monthly seafloor temperatures (first gif), annual discharge of sediment from rivers (magenta in the 2nd gif), and seasonal upwelling of nutrients from deeper water (blue in the 2nd gif).

The creation of all my maps seen in this post was possible thanks to Photopea, which has been my go-to for several years now. The resolution kinda got crunched when I uploaded these here, so when I share them on Reddit later I'll add those links under this. These have also already been posted on Twitter, which you can see here if you like. Thanks for scrolling all the way down here!