My First Map Effort- Questions and Suggestions for OWM
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:39 pm
Here's my first map. I think I'm going to like this tool. This map took me roughly 90 minutes to create including learning the tool interface, coming up with the names and doing the font work. I also did the font work in Photoshop as I found that the font tools and edging were easier for me to do, though I'll keep looking at how fonts work in the tool.
Feedback is most welcome.
I do have a few questions-
1. This is a region map, so I wanted some features to run to the edge, however, I found that problematic. Somehow I got the ocean to bleed off ok in the lower right corner, but when I tried to do the same for the deserts I kept getting a problem where the points would try to create fractal edges rather than just letting me run straight edges along the side or make points off map. This forced me to run the deserts close to the edge, but still not fully off the edge. Is there a simple way to do this?
2. How can I create islands in the center of the map and give them wave edges like the normal shoreline? I couldn't figure this out.
3. How do I move an object? It seems that it's possible, but I couldn't figure it out. I had to delete and replace items rather than move them.
As for suggestions, this is supposed to be a desert map, so I wish there were palm tree and oasis icons as well as desert city icons in the mix. I suppose I can import them from elsewhere, but it would be a nice thing to have in the basic set. That's it for now. I'm very pleased with how this turned out for an first effort.
Feedback is most welcome.
I do have a few questions-
1. This is a region map, so I wanted some features to run to the edge, however, I found that problematic. Somehow I got the ocean to bleed off ok in the lower right corner, but when I tried to do the same for the deserts I kept getting a problem where the points would try to create fractal edges rather than just letting me run straight edges along the side or make points off map. This forced me to run the deserts close to the edge, but still not fully off the edge. Is there a simple way to do this?
2. How can I create islands in the center of the map and give them wave edges like the normal shoreline? I couldn't figure this out.
3. How do I move an object? It seems that it's possible, but I couldn't figure it out. I had to delete and replace items rather than move them.
As for suggestions, this is supposed to be a desert map, so I wish there were palm tree and oasis icons as well as desert city icons in the mix. I suppose I can import them from elsewhere, but it would be a nice thing to have in the basic set. That's it for now. I'm very pleased with how this turned out for an first effort.