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Achaea world map
Hello, folks!
Way back in 2006, I created a world map. I mapped the wilderness bit by bit, and over this composite, I painted a crude and unwieldy smorgasbord of features. The map evolved slowly over the years, with mountains blending naturally into their surroundings rather than jutting up like a very public birthmark, but the formula remained more or less the same.
More recently, as Achaea's released certain bits of content, I've come to find that my aspect ratio (let's call it a "projection") is somewhat off. You see, I've realised that Achaea's wilderness grid is created from essentially square tiles. When these are converted to a person's font of choice -- Courier, in my case -- that overall image is stretched. The result is the long, tapered view of Sapience with which you might be familiar. However, a crude resizing simply wouldn't do. Either the features would be stretched to JPEG artefact oblivion, or the image would be crushed into an unrecognisable lump.
The best solution was to start clean. Here was a chance to approach the project with fresh eyes, using techniques of which my younger self hadn't been aware. The result is damned large, but it's also more intricate -- and hopefully, just a bit prettier.
Way back in 2006, I created a world map. I mapped the wilderness bit by bit, and over this composite, I painted a crude and unwieldy smorgasbord of features. The map evolved slowly over the years, with mountains blending naturally into their surroundings rather than jutting up like a very public birthmark, but the formula remained more or less the same.
More recently, as Achaea's released certain bits of content, I've come to find that my aspect ratio (let's call it a "projection") is somewhat off. You see, I've realised that Achaea's wilderness grid is created from essentially square tiles. When these are converted to a person's font of choice -- Courier, in my case -- that overall image is stretched. The result is the long, tapered view of Sapience with which you might be familiar. However, a crude resizing simply wouldn't do. Either the features would be stretched to JPEG artefact oblivion, or the image would be crushed into an unrecognisable lump.
The best solution was to start clean. Here was a chance to approach the project with fresh eyes, using techniques of which my younger self hadn't been aware. The result is damned large, but it's also more intricate -- and hopefully, just a bit prettier.
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Great work!
The voice of Melantha, Goddess of the Seasons, echoes amid the rustle of leaves, "That's the censored version."
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
With shipping, I'm paying basically $95 for the two posters together. I'll let you know how they look when they arrive! If they look good, I'm going to have one of them framed. (You can order them framed from zazzle.com, but framing anything this big is not cheap - Minimum of an additional $130 or so per poster.)
I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong, though.
→My Mudlet Scripts
2. The map has a non-standard aspect ratio, necessitating custom print sizes.
@Sarapis or @Tecton: Understandable why you're unwilling to take on creating/shipping/handling merch yourselves, but any chance of you guys setting up an account with one of those sites to sell branded merch, so we can buy prints like this, logo mugs, etc.?
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