Map thread general

>that time I drew an extensively detailed map and simulated realistic human migration patterns before writing up a fictional biography of a king by cobbling together multiple semi conflicting diary entries, propaganda, historic texts all composed by his friends, enemies, family, peasants, and fellow nobles

I am become Tism

Destroyer of social events

>>1113100
here's a better resolution, if anyone wants a closer look:
>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Fra_Mauro_World_Map%2C_c.1450.jpg

>>1113120
That's really cool. I know someone who's doing something like that with simulators for accurate geography and fault lines and such. Really cool stuff. I kind of wish I had the patience and creativity to go somewhere with a project like that. Do you mind sharing?

>>1113142
inb4 Americeckistan joke

>>1113387
Hi Isis Phillips

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>>1113133
Not the Anon to who you're replaying to, but on /tg/ we occasionally have map threads about making maps for games that [spoiler]we never run because no players and forever DM.[/spoiler] I can't find the rest, but this image is an interesting way to take some interesting shape and make it a sensical piece of geography.

>>1113440
This guide kinda shits on most fantasy maps ever

>>1113440
Noice, I'm looking forward to make a computer game based on a story I'm writing just for the lulz using UE4 so this might help quite a lot.

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>>1113120
Fantasy maps are fun as fuck, pic related is what I like to do in free time that I've not spend writing or doing work

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>>1113668
How do you make them look so good

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>>1115359
Jesus, what's the deal in Southern Muntenia?

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>>1115384
Gypsies

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>>1115410
whoops, wrong map.

Those regions in southern mutenia have the largest concentration of gypsies.

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>>1115291
Layers and opacity, keep everything set to layers so you can add/detract what you want. So keep all your land outline on 1 layer, land colour on 2, mountains and natural geography on other layers, then political boundaries on another, then roads, trade routes and so on.

Also, that guide >>1113440 is very useful (although I admit I've never used it for mine, I just go off my own assumptions).

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>>1118489
I'm in favor of this honestly.

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>>1118494
Why doesn't the federal government do it then?

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>>1113668
>>1117054

Hey anon, what program do you use? Your maps look great. I've used Gimp with a handrawn outline. How could I neaten it up like yours? It's for an assignment. Pls help anon.

>>1118587
I used GIMP as well, just had a mouse do a big black blob of random landmasses, then got a very small 2px eraser and chipped away at it to create more realistic coastlines and shapes. Kept doing layer upon layer of detail until I got there.

I wouldn't use GIMP if you do it with a drawing tablet, you would probably be better with something like Krita.

The Cartography Guild (http://www.cartographersguild.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48) has some great PDF guides as well.

>>1118511
>bastarnae
>germanic

wew lad who ever made that map is probably butthurt, whilst putting the germanic tribes so far eastwards when in fact slavs used to live in modern day germany and denmark and cuck them with cultural superiority.

>>1118599

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I don't have a tablet, I had to scan in my hand drawing (pen and paper) and colour it as best I could. Unfortunately when scaled down to put in an essay, the words become unreadable.

>>1118632
who were the bastarnae then? in schools they told us they were germanic

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>>1118502
Here's my version (fixed Slovenia).

>>1118489
>based Columbus not sharing same state with the shithole that is Cleveland

Pls make this happen

>>1118645
Yeah, apparently I2 people do have similarities with people have just has much I1 percentage wise. With one similarity being that both groups of people generally speaking grow quite tall.

>>1119068
That's just a correlation, not causation. If anything, the Dutch are one of the tallest people in Europe and they used to be manlets two centuries ago. It has more to do with nutrition than fucking haplogroups.

t. R1b and 198 cm

>>1118690
balkan racist detected