First time making a map
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Okay quick update:
I have managed to draw out the provinces (haven't gotten all the territories I want though. Just to double check this is how I have the layers set up from high to low
Layer 2 - Province boarders (I will break down the provinces more)
Layer 1 - Base MapEventually I will add a 3rd layer, which will be above layer 2, and it will be my hold capitals, villages, and maybe castles. Also, this map has been scaled up to 15k x 9k px.
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Looking good.
I think the borders are darker/wider than the coast. -
Yeah, I can't get them to remain unified in size so I'm debating redrawing all the boarders. Even when I try to fix it's width it doesn't want to cooperate.
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You might of locked the borders layer, check the layers pane (on the right) does not have
a closed lock.
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They are all unlocked, I think it has to do with scaling causing problems, cause when I drew the map originally, it wasn't scaled up, then I scaled it up, then drew the borders so it is all sorts of messed up and just need to redraw everything.
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Okay, last update of the night, figured out why my lines were uneven, it's due to drawing at different zoom levels resulting in different width lines. I zoomed in to 25%, and retraced the OG map and saved it to -01, then retraced the holds (again, will add more provinces to the map maybe tomorrow) and saved that to -02. But finally my map is uniform in width.
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Okay, I'm back at it again this morning, and need a little help with a decision. So I was thinking of making each fort its own box (like I would do with the hold capitals and the smaller villages), but I started thinking about 2 interesting forts:
For Dunstad in the Pale (Dawnstar) and Fort Kastav in Winterhold (Winterhold). They defend the roads leading into those regions, and I'm having a bit of a hard time with what to do. I used my older map to quickly edit what my ideas are for visual references.
(option 1) I could keep the forts as their own tt, and adjust the mountains to block the sides forcing someone to attack the forts
(option 2) I could drop the idea of forts having their own tt and just put a castle unit in the larger TT.
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I would make opt 1, as you have it and move the mountains to the fort.
And where appropriate put the fort/castles in the middle of a TT or on the coast.
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Okay, on the topic of mountains, what layer would you suggest it be added to? Layer 1 (base map) no TT, Layer 2 (TT), or layer 3 (towns and cities)
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I assume they are impassable, so I would put them on their own layer.
Even if not I think I would put them on their own layer.
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