MAPS: Edi's Map Projects - Page 2

Saulot · #11 July 13th, 2007, 11:39 AM

Great job Edi!
Have to say I love the Faerun Map, but the bright red was a bit jarring. The Gold province border is a little harder to make out, but much more easy on the eyes.

Also, I love the compression I get on rars. Not quite like uharc, but then not much is. Strange, I thought rar is as ubiquitous as zip nowadays.

Gandalf Parker · #12 July 13th, 2007, 11:53 AM

I admit that I will probably have to start offering my maps as RARs also. With Dom3 going from 500 max to 1500 max on provinces, and new programs such as SemiRand to create interesting map files, a zip it getting really really big. If I create my "daily maps" pages like I did with Dom2 then Im probably going to have to offer ZIP and RAR

Ballbarian · #13 July 13th, 2007, 02:48 PM

Grrr.

I have to admit that the compression is better on RAR's, but you have to remember that us old timers started with pkunzip on the command line and now Windoze XP comes with it as part of the operating system with makes it very easy to just use zips.

Edi · #14 July 13th, 2007, 03:58 PM

Actually, the file size is almost the same whether rar or zip. Unless my eyes were deceiving me, I was getting better compression with the zip format than the rar...

Anyone who feels like it can modify the border color to what they want. I suppose it should be toned down, but as I said, I wanted to get the map out. I will probably change that sometime in the future to see if I can find a better color.

Ruminant · #15 October 3rd, 2008, 12:40 PM

*slowly surfaces from his lurkening under the water*

Hellooo, forums!

I've got kind of a problem here; Edi, you are -too- good at making maps

Seriously, what's up with that? I've seen a pic of Faerun from Llama's map server and it truly looks awesome. Only problem is I can't actually find a copy of it :/

I've got the .tga file thanks to the link to Balbarian's edited version, but nowhere can I find an actual .map file. Followed several links to your homepage but apart from a few jpegs there doesn't seem to be anything else there. It could be a problem on my end with firefox, just thought I'd ask and find out. Cheers in advance to anyone who can help!

Edi · #16 October 3rd, 2008, 04:00 PM

The file was deleted in spring and I've been intending to put it back up, but it's had to take a backseat to some other stuff. I'll do some quick work this weekend and upload the no specials map. The adventure version is still non-existent.

Edratman · #17 October 3rd, 2008, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Edi

The file was deleted in spring and I've been intending to put it back up, but it's had to take a backseat to some other stuff. I'll do some quick work this weekend and upload the no specials map. The adventure version is still non-existent.

Cool. Great looking map, but as said before , no .map file can be found.