Help needed from a skinner

[Pieter Boelen]

Hello all,

In Build 14 Update 5 the Map interface screen shows the current location of your ship. However, the default map is too inaccurate for navigation and can't be used for this. That is why I made a new one. Although my version IS accurate, it isn't as pretty as the original map. So I was rather hoping a graphics artist would be able to take my map and improve it. I have the PSD file, so it should be relatively easy. Please say so if you would like to help.

The left picture is the new map, the right picture is the original map.

 

[Petros]

I don't understand.

You already have the map's islands re-scaled.

What do you need, just the labels?

 

[morgan terror]

he means that the islands are simply brown, i think. they should look more like islands, like the old map. the labels would be nice as well, in my opinion.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

On my new version, the islands ARE there, but they don't look as pretty as on the original map. That is because I made the islands from scratch by using the worldmap's sea.tga.tx file, removing all sea from it and then using a Blending modifier on the islands in Photoshop. The effect is functional, but it isn't as good as the original map.

If anyone uses Build 14 Alpha 5, you'll see that the island labels in the map interface are added through code, so the island names don't nescessarily need to be added. Adding the town and beach names would be useful though. It's only the island names that are added through code.

It would also be nice to add some treasure X's to the map, along with some palm trees and towns on the islands.

 

[morgan terror]

maybe the roads on the islands should be roughly the same as the real roads you walk on when travelling the islands. that would make the map really usefull, if it was big enough. then you could also put the X in the correct place where the treasure should be that you are hunting. or at least somewhere in that location.