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General Discussion / Re: Rendering some maps

« on: October 26, 2019, 12:14:38 pm »

I hope you find some maintainers - I posted a map to reddit, and mentioned that you're looking for people - https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/dncyxc/map_of_middle_earth/.

And we moved the curved labels to jvangeld's ME-GIS repo, and I added the 10k DEM to the arda repo, so other people could play around with it - https://github.com/bburns/arda.

I might not have much time for the map for a while, but hope to get back to it eventually!

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General Discussion / Re: Rendering some maps

« on: October 22, 2019, 10:47:22 pm »

Hi monks and Redrobes - I didn't realize you had written - I thought I was subscribed to this topic!

My main purpose was to make some detailed maps to play AIME with - like down to the 1 meter level. That would involve procedural generation, which I'm not very familiar with. But I figured I could feed it your 10k DEM (200m/px) as a starting point and have it fill in the blanks.

Then I got interested in making a nicely labelled map, and played around a bit with the shapefiles - adding region and mountain layers with curved labels and fontsize in km. I put that all on Github here https://github.com/bburns/arda, minus the 10k DEM - it's still a little preliminary.

Anyway, I'll be switching now to the procedural generation, but could post a map to reddit r/tolkienfans to see if anyone was interested in helping maintain the project. And I haven't written to jvangeld yet - will do that also.

Thanks again for the awesome maps!

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General Discussion / Rendering some maps

« on: October 17, 2019, 04:39:39 am »

Hello all, I've started playing Adventures in Middle Earth and was interested in making some landscapes to make exploring the world more interesting - then I wondered if someone else had made a DEM for Middle Earth, and found the incredible work that you guys (monks) did. So I got the 10k DEM file [1] and the Shapefiles [2] and put them into QGIS and with some coloring and hillshading have this so far -

https://imgur.com/M8f83o3

What took the most time was aligning the DEM and the vectors - the georeferencing plugin didn't seem to work very well, so I tried editing a world file for the DEM directly and importing it - that worked a bit better, though took many tries to get everything lined up, and it's still not perfect. The current world file has -

200.1
0
0
-200.1
-900
2001100

Some things to do -

- add linear mountain ranges for labelling (just did a few so far)
- add regions for labelling
- try some different color and labelling schemes

I'll post updates here if I make more/better renders - I'm still experimenting with colors and styles.

Thanks for all the great work you guys have done - I hope this project keeps going!

[1] http://worlds.outercraft.com/forum/index.php/topic,27.60.htm
[2] https://github.com/jvangeld/ME-GIS

Brian
https://brianburns.org