Map Dabble

[quote=Rockbert]I like the pacific centered one, that's cool![/quote] Agreed

I make some critics to Hoodlum, in private, concerning the distorted cartographic projection. I mean the Pacific Ocean get so narrowed: Japan and California actually are not so close as they seem in that map. Overall it looks nice but I'm not a fan of Polynesia replacing Papua, unsure about the rivers... Anyway the proposal should be put on the map thread. Note: in order to maintain the gameplay unchanged Ontario and Greenland have to be connected, not a fan of that diagonal divider between Ontario and Quebec neither. The second one is preferable to me. Maybe the texts over the ocean should take the colour of the continents they belong to, not the colour of the ocean. I can't understand if Middle East and East Africa can attack each other or not.

Some experiments lately. large fantasy maps an old experiment. [spoiler=dragonport][img]https://mapconquest.com/images/dabble/90.large.jpg[/img][/spoiler] new experiment. [spoiler=nga toa][img]https://mapconquest.com/images/dabble/91.large.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

Yes!

Hey everyone. I'm back playing D12. MC is a mess. Wasn't too serious about this site so missed a lot of turns...got my attendance up from 56 to 87 in a week. I'm serious now. Have a great idea for a map...London Postal Codes. How do I insert a file?

A map used for one of our forum mafia themes,[url=https://lynchmob.games/hoodtown/map/] HoodTown[/url]. thought i'd play around with it, and added regions and territories.. [spoiler=HoodTown][img]https://mapconquest.com/images/dabble/92.large.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

They all so beautiful. The one I like the most is Nga Toa!

[quote=bilsi]Hey everyone. I'm back playing D12. MC is a mess. Wasn't too serious about this site so missed a lot of turns...got my attendance up from 56 to 87 in a week. I'm serious now. Have a great idea for a map...London Postal Codes. How do I insert a file?[/quote] ooh, that sounds fun!

HoodTown is also very cool Surely much better than Saturn! So why to keep HoodTown locked in the garage and Saturn free in the yard? Let's test this new one. Perhaps at some point we'll get rid of some of the older and least successful maps.

River and bridges are obviously understood by everyone. "Open doors are passable" perhaps would deserve a small legend somewhere.

Anyone from Bulgaria? (real geography dabble) Bishop requested a 117 territory map, for 9 player caps. (2 days effort) Probably easier to do that with a fantasy map, but i'd done a few recently, wanted to try a real location. here's the attempt dimensions are good 1024 and height under 700px 27 regions 117 territories bonuses calculated https://dominating12.com/tools added some usable rivers that were along borders, similar to what i did with france map. it did cause some super region issue, i thought about adding bridges but i changed my mind, and instead redrew some territory changes in the middle somewhere so it wasn't too bad. had airports at one stage too. I've come across the Bulgaria map quite a few times, the layout looks similar to my Gold Coast map. there was lots of references to go from. there's probably more important place names than the ones i've ended up choosing. i don't know too much about Bulgaria, cept now I know it's part of the Balkans.. [spoiler=names for reference] [b]BOLD = REGION NAME[/b] [b]Vidin: 1[/b] Kula Belogradchik Lom [b]Montana: 3[/b] Chiprovtski Berkovitsa Miziya Knezha [b]Vratsa: 2[/b] Borovan Svage Kostinbrod [b]Sofiya: 6[/b] Botevgrad Elin Pelin Etropole Samokov Kostenets Yarlovo [b]Pernik: 1[/b] Cherni Vrah [b]Kyustendil: 2[/b] Boboshevo Dupnista [b]Blagoevgrad: 3[/b] Musala Sandanski Kulata Gotze Delchev Petrich [b]Pazardzhik: 3[/b] Peshtera Batak Velingrad Borino [b]Smolyan: 2[/b] Madan [b]Khurdzali: 2[/b] Podkova Momchilgrad [b]Haskovo: 2[/b] Dimitrovgrad Ivaylovgard Sakar Sopot Khisarya Rakovski [b]Plovdiv: 4[/b] Asenovgrad Teteven Ugurchin Troyan [b]Lovech: 3[/b] Gorni Dubnik Stavertsi [b]Pleven: 3[/b] Levski Oresh Sashevo [b]Veliko Tarnovo: 3[/b] Lyaskovets [b]Gabrovo: 1[/b] Tryavna [b]Stara Zagora: 4[/b] Chirpan Yagoda Kazanluk Radnevo Kotel [b]Sliven: 2[/b] Nova Zagora Tenevo Elkhovo [b]Yambol: 2[/b] Bolyarovo Lozarevo Karnobat Grudovo Aytos [b]Burgas: 5[/b] Goritsa Sozopol Rezovo Malko Turnovo Svishtov Dve Mogili [b]Ruse: 2[/b] Popovo [b]Targovishte: 2[/b] Omurtag Kubrat [b]Razgrad: 2[/b] Kaloyan Novi Pazar [b]Shumen: 2[/b] Veliki Tutrakan [b]Silistra: 2[/b] Dulovo Sredishte Rositsa Tervel [b]Dobrich: 3[/b] Kavarna [b]Varna: 2[/b] Devnya Provadiya[/spoiler] themewise i just read somewhere that bulgaria was a battleground for a lot of wars in the past. colour pallete was accidental, looked fine enuff and i didn't fuss too much around with it. [spoiler=Battleground Bulgaria][img]https://mapconquest.com/images/dabble/bulgaria.jpg[/img][/spoiler] [url=https://mapconquest.com/images/dabble/bulgaria.jpg]100% view[/url]

Woowh Hoodlum! Thanks, how can you do that so well, and so quickly?? I was planning to do something myself with the wanted number, in the next months or one year, and you made it just in 2 days...

[quote=The_Bishop]Woowh Hoodlum! Thanks, how can you do that so well, and so quickly?? I was planning to do something myself with the wanted number, in the next months or one year, and you made it just in 2 days...[/quote] a lot of practice now lol. [spoiler=my typical process] 1.settle on dimensions - leave enough for the mini map and title. maybe a frame. 2.get the width to 1024. 3. trace around the reference at 300% to get an outline of the map. i used 9px 4. create a separate trace for the borders layer. i used 7px 5. duplicate both. then merge the duplicates to create a colouring-in layer. 6. trace the territories. i used 5px 7. possibly research terrain of the geography in case that you can use for gameplay, eg. rivers and mountains. i made another layer including rivers in this one. makes it easier later on if you end up using them. (i did) once i've done that. ill resize those layers back to the original size of 100%. the lines Outline, Border and Territory lines will look smother than if you were to draw at normal size. 8. use the magic wand tool on colour in the regions different colours. palette doesn't matter for now. 9. fit the grey circles in (keep in mind that u left each territory with ideally enough space for a capitals circle and a name for the territory. 10. ill fill the circles in with adjacent numbers, and ill recolour the [i]inside a region[/i] territories. this is for creating gameplay. try and have an overall balance if possible. 11. settle on a font i am going to use. (my program doesnt allow me to change font with a button). spell check everything. 12. if happy with gameplay. creative stuff next once the basics are out the way. 13. drop shadow the layers and font. find what works and try and keep it consistent usually. 13. try and come up with colour palette. sometimes it's cliques sometimes it takes forever. recolour outlines/border/territories line to whatever. 14. play around with textures. most time ill fluke something, i didnt mean to do. research for themes probably. balance the map with graphics... might need a compass to fill in a blank area.. [/spoiler]

Thanks for the brief Hood, I'll follow carefully your insrtuctions next time. As for Battleground Bulgaria, it's quite an open battleground, not bad in the end, but to give it some more 'shape' I would add also some mountains in their actual places, like in the following example, and add one bridge (fixing the bonus of just one region accordingly). [spoiler=Bulgaria with mountains][img]https://i.ibb.co/qY0QXRMh/bulgaria-mountains-01.jpg[/img][/spoiler] P.S. I provided also an image with the major chock points and the related super-regions.

i like bishops proposal