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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
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-200.1
-900
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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
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