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procrastinating2much In reply to Cattette [2020-02-26 20:55:31 +0000 UTC]

Yeah thank you for your help! You’re absolutely right, but I found that when reducing the scale of the vertical displacement of the plane it presented the optical illusion that Scotland was much bigger than England as opposed to the map was just a perspective. Going to see if I can try to fix it somehow in future perspective maps

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procrastinating2much In reply to JonasGraf [2020-02-26 19:14:19 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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procrastinating2much In reply to TheKutKu [2020-02-26 19:12:38 +0000 UTC]

Yeah that’s pretty similar to me, the resolution of this map is only half of what i wanted it to be because i simply don’t have the computer required to generate something higher. And unfortunately not, the only way i could get it to work was by using the way you have described.

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TheKutKu In reply to procrastinating2much [2020-02-26 19:56:45 +0000 UTC]

I found that QGIS can do quite satisfying 3D/Relief renders, particularly with the qgis2threejs plugin (note that for some reason it only works on windows 10 in qgis 3.4+, i had to use the qgis 2.X version personally), It's not perfect, it doesn't have too many options particularly about the lighting and shadows and it can have trouble handling high resolution TIFF data, and ultimately being QGIS it doesn't have the flexibility of Blender (can't move around as easily, can't manually edit nodes..). But i found it rather easy to use and quicker to reach a same result as Blender, Maybe the QGIS 3.4+ version is better.

 Here's a quick exemple

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procrastinating2much In reply to TheKutKu [2020-02-26 21:55:09 +0000 UTC]

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procrastinating2much In reply to TheKutKu [2020-02-26 19:14:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! your maps have a brilliant uniqueness to them, how did you achieve the hand drawn effect?

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TheKutKu In reply to procrastinating2much [2020-02-26 19:50:49 +0000 UTC]

When i made my New England map , while i used blender, i only used it to make a "basemap " : cdn.discordapp.com/attachments… , after that i drew above everything on Inkscape, first the water, topography levels... I just quickly drew lines to make "hills" and shadows are just transparent shapes, and i took care to make every colour on the map work on a faint circular gradient to simulate the lighting.

Admitedly, it's not perfect, I've repeatedly tried to improve but making hand drawn style is already hard enough on "flat" maps, let alone on perspective ones, I recently borrowed a graphic tablet from a friend but I couldn't do much more than i already do with a mouse (I suck at drawing tho..) I found that ArcGIS has a rather useful tool that can make any line or shape or text "squigly" that gives a decent hand drawn look, and ShahAbbas1571 's last work shows that making realistic looking old/drawn maps is feasible.

Someday i'll take a go at it again, i've long been wanting to make a perspective map of either Vvardenfell (from Morrowind) or a Portuguese Southern Africa, that New England map was actually only supposed to be a test before making these, but i want to be sure of what i'm doing before undertaking such project

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procrastinating2much In reply to TheKutKu [2020-02-26 21:53:18 +0000 UTC]

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JonasGraf In reply to zalezsky [2020-02-26 18:24:36 +0000 UTC]

Indeed. I also need Blender  

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procrastinating2much In reply to zalezsky [2020-02-26 17:46:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Would recommend this guide as a place to start if you’re interested! www.google.com/amp/s/something…

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zalezsky In reply to procrastinating2much [2020-02-28 13:50:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much!

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