Balkan Peninsula

Yes, is the real frontier between Slovenia and Croatia. Same applies for Montenegro and Albania. From now on I'll have to play with textures. It's not my favourite game though.

Maybe you could look at some of the other maps on this website? I know we don't want every map to look the same and if you can come up with something completely different that still looks good (for example, look at the jungle map), that's even better, but here are some maps of which I like the textures pretty much. Feel free to do with it whatever you want ;) http://www.dominating12.com/image/map/44.large.jpg - Ancient Realm http://www.dominating12.com/image/map/11.large.jpg - Caribbean http://www.dominating12.com/image/map/29.large.jpg - East Asia (A bit less, but still pretty cool) http://www.dominating12.com/image/map/27.large.jpg - Falkland Islands Great Britain also does something cool with the textures, but it's probably in need of a touch up as well: http://www.dominating12.com/image/map/12.large.jpg I hope this helps you in some way.

Psymon, if you want to email me the latest version I can play with colors textures at the same time you do as I'm sure you are VERY tired of tweaking the map (I know your pain). Message me if you want.

http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q785/PsymonStark7/Balkan/balkanc2_zpsb60e3505.jpg I can't open the image but it was correctly uploaded, tell me if you have issues with it. Downloaded it shows correctly.

I tried to open it, and it didn't work on CS4. Sorry. I can see it, and I got the fonts installed. But if I try to change anything, it has no effect. Even if I hide layers, nothing changes on the screen.

Better or worse? http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q785/PsymonStark7/Balkan/balkanc3_zpse61a4618.jpg

I like the previous better, but I think I am one of the few people that likes fairly clean maps/textures.

I like either one. Try to make the colors all about 10% darker. I think the site prefers this aged, majestic kind of treasure map dark and mean look. Does that make sense even? Just try to give it a hint of Japan / Korea map in shading just to see if that wins over Fendi. That's all I was going to do anyway :) Gameplay should play a lot like PR, which will be awesome for small caps games! Cant' wait.

Oh, good idea, will try it later ^^

And stroke the Title with 2 pixels of black just to see what it looks like. I love the overall look of the title, but it seems soft edged for some reason. PS - I think the color adjustments just need to be done on the playable area, everything else has the look this site likes already in my opinion.

Ok I did this in about 5 minutes with GIMP so it's pretty dirty, and I just manipulated the flat image, not the psd layered file, so it's really just a mock up for your input. I used this texture: [spoiler][img]http://images.forwallpaper.com/files/thumbs/preview/17/175373__texture-brown-topography-roughness-contrast_p.jpg[/img][/spoiler] Pasted it centered over each territory, one at a time, then hid it. Then I magic selected the territory, on the background layer. Switched to the texture layer and cut and paste a new layer right over the territory. I used Hard light at 35% opacity. But you can play with blending options all you want. I had to increase contrast and darkness on a few just from how the colors interacted. I only did the left 4 most territories, you get the idea from that (green, blue, yellow, orange from left to right) [spoiler][img]http://www.bluemelon.com/photo/5012761.jpg[/img][/spoiler] What do you think of that? It's a bit more topography like, and darker. Obviously it would look a lot cleaner if you did it with the layers and borders in front. They got a bit pixelated around the edges. And if it's too edgy, throw a 2 pixel Gaussian blur over it.

http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q785/PsymonStark7/Balkan/balkanc4a_zps68c7f898.jpg http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q785/PsymonStark7/Balkan/balkanc4c_zpsaff0269c.jpg http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/q785/PsymonStark7/Balkan/balkanc4e_zps7659a436.jpg Several options, including the one that proposed cbt. It is cool, but I prefer not to put big color gradients. Thanks, your feedback is being very useful! I hope you guys like any of them.

Lol I just want Fendi to like it :) Good work. Remind me to save that texture for my next map though.

It will be here ^^

I think I like 4e the best. I like 4d, but it seems too dark. 4e seems to have a good balance.