Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax Jan 21, 2007 1:04:04	This is a map of Australia 3000AD I mad a few years ago. I used Dark Sun art to create a Dark Sun like future. The earth is in an ice age.
#2 jon_oracle_of_athas Jan 21, 2007 3:15:29	That´s cool, Ral. What did you make that in?
#3 ruhl-than_sage Jan 21, 2007 9:42:53	Nice, maybe that could fit into the expanded map somewhere, albiet with different city names :D
#4 Zardnaar Jan 21, 2007 14:06:42	Well Australia is turning into Darksun;) Climate change is causing a massive drought over there in parts of Oz.
#5 kalthandrix Jan 21, 2007 15:00:11	Very sweet, Ral!!! I would love to see it with some different names and maybe some notes on some of the cities and locations - like Edan. And who would be the ruler of Austraila 3000 AD - maybe the Sorcerer-King Par la'Mint Who rulz, baby :D
#6 markustay63 Jan 21, 2007 15:13:53	Very nice. I do maps myself, what proggie do you use? I'm partial to photoshop, I have created many of my own textures and stamps using official FR maps to keep the same feel to them.
#7 zombiegleemax Jan 21, 2007 15:37:43	I used the Fractal Mapper, version one. It was a freeware program I got in the late 90s. It removes the most numerous color, usually the background and create as sort of floating map in which I can move the symbols around. I also used MGI photosuite, a program similar to MS paint to make the background. I used this map as a base. http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/aust(22.gif I made the symols myself based on the original artwork for Dark Sun, since I liked that map the best. I will email them or better yet, post them on a website. It's a post apocalyptic future in which humans are forced to live as they did in the Iron Age. It's very similar to Dark Sun, however, there's only one Sorceror King, and he rules Maboru. There's no other races, no magic, no clerics, however, there is religon, and pscionics. The north is heavy populated with Chinese and Indian peoples and cultures. Most of the other towns are usually ruled by one of the city states. i.e., they are sort of like countries. The ruined cities are all that's left of the past. The distorted name of them is all that remains. I don't remember what Edan was, but it probably is an artifact of when humanity was at its technological height and probably the source of the SK of Maboru's immortallity. Perhaps there's an SK at Chabin or maybe Xia-ku. Immortallity is a club. Very few are invited.
#8 Sysane Jan 21, 2007 16:53:08	I made the symols myself based on the original artwork for Dark Sun, since I liked that map the best. I will email them or better yet, post them on a website. Any chance of you throwing me an e-mail with this?
#9 hazhar Jan 21, 2007 18:10:27	I see Australia bumped back into New Guinea... what happens to the Papuans?
#10 zombiegleemax Jan 21, 2007 19:10:09	They are probably still in the same place they've always been, the northern jungle, however, they might inhabit the city-state of Kora. Any chance of you throwing me an e-mail with this? If this doesn't work, then I will try email. http://h1.ripway.com/RalofTyr/NBOS.zip
#11 Sysane Jan 21, 2007 19:27:37	No dice with that link. At least for me anyway.
#12 zombiegleemax Jan 22, 2007 1:30:58	It works fine for me. PM me your email.
#13 kalthandrix Jan 22, 2007 7:33:05	Link worked for me - I think I must have gotten this program from you before Ral, becuase it is what I used to design some of the world maps for my book - but I could never get the symbols to work correctly.
#14 j0lt Jan 22, 2007 9:13:43	I like the way you incorporated a the historical projection map.
#15 markustay63 Jan 22, 2007 17:14:25	The link worked for me as well, thank you. :D For anyone who cares, heres a link to a map I did for FR - Map of Evermeet To be honest, the hardest thing to make was the Compass Rose, what a pain!
#16 zombiegleemax Jan 22, 2007 22:40:32	Link worked for me - I think I must have gotten this program from you before Ral, becuase it is what I used to design some of the world maps for my book - but I could never get the symbols to work correctly. Hover the mouse arrow over one of the eight symbols boxes and double click. Then, a dialog box should pop up. Select the symbol and click OK. It took me a while to figure that one out as well.
#17 Sysane Jan 23, 2007 7:57:01	Hover the mouse arrow over one of the eight symbols boxes and double click. Then, a dialog box should pop up. Select the symbol and click OK. It took me a while to figure that one out as well. I get that far myself, but all it does when you double click on it is leave blank squares on the mapping surface. p.s. Thanks for e-mailing that to me.
#18 kalthandrix Jan 23, 2007 13:03:04	Hover the mouse arrow over one of the eight symbols boxes and double click. Then, a dialog box should pop up. Select the symbol and click OK. It took me a while to figure that one out as well. I will play with it some more and see - if I have issues still I will post a question for you or send you a PM. Thanks
#19 zombiegleemax Jan 23, 2007 16:44:24	Hmm, then the program cannot find the symbol .bmp file, it will make a box. Are your paths clear? Did you move the Mapart or Dark Sun file anywhere else? It works fine for me.
#20 kalthandrix Jan 24, 2007 19:10:19	Humm - I tried doing the double click thig before and it never worked - and still does not. I have even re-downloaded the file and tried it again and still cannot get the little jpegs to work.
#21 Sysane Jan 24, 2007 20:34:26	Same here. I still just get the blank squares.
#22 zombiegleemax Jan 24, 2007 20:37:09	They shouldn't be jpegs. The Dark Sun art has to be .bmp for the program to read it correctly. Are they .bmp or is your unzipper converting them to jpegs?
#23 kalthandrix Jan 25, 2007 13:14:27	They shouldn't be jpegs. The Dark Sun art has to be .bmp for the program to read it correctly. Are they .bmp or is your unzipper converting them to jpegs? My bad - they are still .bmp - I typed without looking first.