New map coming soon!

Marek_Tucan · #1 January 25th, 2009, 10:44 AM

Fulfilling the promise, building a new map. Small one (for me

) - 100x100 hexes. It covers area you may see here:
www.mapy.cz

It is ca. 18 km inland from one of major border crossings between late Czechoslovakia and late West Germany. Mountaineous terrain with lot of places inaccessible (or hardly so) for vehicles.Utilising the whole height level scale and then some - max. height is 160 (manual input). Height step 20 meters.

Started today, the work is fairly fast - mostly because there are few houses and so on

Here is 1st preview, so far have reached as low as Level 9. The top-left corner is one hill of height 160, in low-right corner there will be another. The terrain slopes down from left (south) to right (north) and total altitude step is from some 850 meters to 480 meters above sea level.
Roughly through the center of the map (top-down) there will be a canyon of a small stream (you can see its outline carved in Level 9 terrain already).
Hope you'll enjoy!

EDIT: as you may see, Level 9 is "bare" as of yet, with only roads placed.

Imp · #2 January 25th, 2009, 10:54 AM

Look forward to it your maps are top quality & often a bit diffrent
Where do you get your topography height data from?

Marek_Tucan · #3 January 25th, 2009, 11:52 AM

1:50k military topo maps (or touristic maps based on them). Scanning is sometimes a bit tricky, but then it's easy - I hexgrid the BMP and fire up the map editor

Marek_Tucan · #4 January 26th, 2009, 01:37 PM

Preview no.2 here, hills completed, road and rail network completed. Now have to add all that coating like trees, houses etc.

Double_Deuce · #5 January 27th, 2009, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan

Awesome work that is.

Marek_Tucan · #6 January 28th, 2009, 03:35 PM

To prove that I am still on the project, here's the result of my today's mapping hour: lower left corner of the map, incl. the deep valley. Was real fun and will make for a nice RPG alley

Marek_Tucan · #7 January 29th, 2009, 06:39 PM

Hooray, the map is ready!

Enjoy and if you have a look at it and find some bug, feel free to complain

Marek_Tucan · #8 February 1st, 2009, 04:02 AM

Now one more question, would you like more maps from the same region? Was toying with the idea of creating a series of maps covering the path of Route E53 from this location up to the borders with Germany.

Imp · #9 February 1st, 2009, 12:14 PM

Just going to download now thanks. Will be a few days before I get round to playing but your idea sounds great. Think I saw a post somewhere by you saying not great at scenerio building but this would give the likes of people who are a good base for a campaign

Double_Deuce · #10 February 2nd, 2009, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Imp

Just going to download now thanks. Will be a few days before I get round to playing but your idea sounds great. Think I saw a post somewhere by you saying not great at scenerio building but this would give the likes of people who are a good base for a campaign

I agree. I know who I need to go when I need maps for designing my next user campaign.