View Full Version : I need a map, half pangea, half archipelago


rmontaruli
Jul 06, 2005, 05:12 AM
Hallo people,
i need a map, large enaugh for a dozen of civs, with this caracteristic:
one big continent in one side, and a lot of little isles in the other side, not too distant each other, in order to allow travelling with a galea and a lighthouse.

The idea is to make a scenario with two main civs: one starting in the pangea, and the other starting in the islands;

Has anybody such a map ?
Thank you.

JG99_Korab
Jul 06, 2005, 05:18 AM
first of all, wrong forum buddy.
second, that shouldn't be to hard to make. quiet easy actually. Get yourself a map generator. then generate a map as close as you want it. then edit it to your tastes.
very easy to do.

rmontaruli
Jul 06, 2005, 05:28 AM
first of all, wrong forum buddy.

I'm sorry.
Which is the correct forum where to post such a question?


second, that shouldn't be to hard to make. quiet easy actually. Get yourself a map generator. then generate a map as close as you want it. then edit it to your tastes.
very easy to do.
You write right: i tried to make it by myself, but i did not like the result.

I tried to generate a pangea, and then to cut some islands using coast tiles...
I also tried to generate an archipelago and then connect some islands to create a large continent, but i don't like what i did.

I'm not so good in map making: i'm here to get a little help.

Padma
Jul 06, 2005, 01:05 PM
Thread moved.

The correct place to ask these questions is in the main Creation & Customization forum.

Dark Russell
Jul 06, 2005, 02:55 PM
I tried to generate a pangea, and then to cut some islands using coast tiles...
I also tried to generate an archipelago and then connect some islands to create a large continent, but i don't like what i did.

I'm not so good in map making: i'm here to get a little help.

You could try generating a continents map and breaking up the second continent.

What size map do you want? I may be interested.

rmontaruli
Jul 07, 2005, 05:08 AM
You could try generating a continents map and breaking up the second continent.


I tried this way, but cutting a continent with tiles of coast and sea is no so simple:
there are rivers to re-design, mountains... The result is visibilly unnatural.

I also tried to start from a full archipelago and then connect some islands to form a whole big continent, but changing sea in planes makes this continent too flat: no deserts, no tundra...

It seems easy, but it is not easy to make a good map: it is easy to make a ugly map.


What size map do you want? I may be interested.

My idea is to make a standard or a large map, enough for 8 civs in the large continent; one or two civs in the greater islands and bonus village or barbarians in the smaller islands.

The choice of the scenario is between a continental civ whose primary goal are Piramids and roads, and a sea civ whose primary goal is Lighthouse and seafaring. Two opposite strategies in the same map.