Nintendohomie
Chieftain
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- Sep 29, 2016
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Like the title says. Middle earth, such as it appears in the third age at the time of the novels.
I have learned so much about modding in the years since my previous scenario, & I will soon be uploading the new version ( which works
) and many others on which I have worked for years.
I made this all by myself. My method is unique to me and doesn't always work out well.
-First I start by getting the right height and width. I check by smathering the board with land in the larger brush sizes in a rough sketch of the land shape I want. Once I feel its right, I will...
-use the individual tile size, always grassland, and draw an outline of the land, and add any islands or continents. I fill this in and Voila! I have my initial land.
-I then go through the topography choices one by one top to bottom adding whatever appropriate choices and trying to make the land as 'real' or accurate as possible. Usually at this stage ( or before) i'll have an internet tab or two open with different maps or images I use to base my work on. I don't try to be accurate 110% and accept that like any work of art this is a stylized interpretation, not a 1-for1 recreation.
-I add rivers, etc. I also add important things to make a map more authentic to it's intended period or subject, for example, a string of barricades in a northern portion of a China map to represent the Great Wall, Ruins near the Nile in a Egypt map, or a fortress in front of the place where Helm's Deep is in the world of Middle Earth in this map.
-Here's the most time consuming step. I spend a long time breaking up the map with random topography to keep the map from looking boring or clinical. As you'll see in this map, Mountain ranges are not uniform and forest are asymmetrical, with rivers running from mountains in zig zags and hills bordering mountains. I really try hard to make the world feel random and alive, which is how our world is after all.
With all that said I hope you enjoy my work. I love this game and the Civeditor is really a game in and of itself and is in many was just as fun as the game itself. Here are a few screenshots to get a glimpse of what it looks like. I'm also working on a War of the Ring Scenario based on this with many cool units and civs like Lothlorien, Dol Amroth, Isengard, and the Kingdom of Dale.
I have learned so much about modding in the years since my previous scenario, & I will soon be uploading the new version ( which works
) and many others on which I have worked for years.I made this all by myself. My method is unique to me and doesn't always work out well.
-First I start by getting the right height and width. I check by smathering the board with land in the larger brush sizes in a rough sketch of the land shape I want. Once I feel its right, I will...
-use the individual tile size, always grassland, and draw an outline of the land, and add any islands or continents. I fill this in and Voila! I have my initial land.
-I then go through the topography choices one by one top to bottom adding whatever appropriate choices and trying to make the land as 'real' or accurate as possible. Usually at this stage ( or before) i'll have an internet tab or two open with different maps or images I use to base my work on. I don't try to be accurate 110% and accept that like any work of art this is a stylized interpretation, not a 1-for1 recreation.
-I add rivers, etc. I also add important things to make a map more authentic to it's intended period or subject, for example, a string of barricades in a northern portion of a China map to represent the Great Wall, Ruins near the Nile in a Egypt map, or a fortress in front of the place where Helm's Deep is in the world of Middle Earth in this map.
-Here's the most time consuming step. I spend a long time breaking up the map with random topography to keep the map from looking boring or clinical. As you'll see in this map, Mountain ranges are not uniform and forest are asymmetrical, with rivers running from mountains in zig zags and hills bordering mountains. I really try hard to make the world feel random and alive, which is how our world is after all.
With all that said I hope you enjoy my work. I love this game and the Civeditor is really a game in and of itself and is in many was just as fun as the game itself. Here are a few screenshots to get a glimpse of what it looks like. I'm also working on a War of the Ring Scenario based on this with many cool units and civs like Lothlorien, Dol Amroth, Isengard, and the Kingdom of Dale.
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