Geographical reconciliation

[Efinari]

I found there two different Mountains of Gorn.

The Mountains of Gorn form a western wall for these lands. There aren't two ranges; but rather one range that the Great River runs through (unless you meant you found another map with some Mountains of Gorn).

[eliddell]

@tr0ll: There is a .xcf version (also possibly a Photoshop one—I can't remember right now) of the mainline maps wedged into a corner of the main svn server somewhere. However, nothing I've posted in this thread is official or part of mainline. I suppose I could stuff the .xcf versions into my GitHub account if enough people were interested.

[Kanzil]

I'm curious-what are the cities to the east of the great forest? Noct and the other one...are they from the era of strife? Also is the southern map going to be attached to create a vast mega-map(not that it isn't big already ).

[Celtic_Minstrel]

I was just wondering, is the xcf version of the latest huge map still available somewhere? I clicked the link on page 8, but it's been removed.

[eliddell]

I apologize; I'll try to reupload tomorrow.

[AI]

The resource branch of wesnoth-umc-dev might be a good home for it.

[eliddell]

Possibly, but I'm not sure who to talk to about getting it up there. For now, you can download the .xcf file from http://www.ziddu.com/download/20155177/ ... cf.7z.html , or the most current PNG from http://postimage.org/image/xp4wgedlx/ . I've added a few cities on and around the Emerald Plains at the request of someone working on a campaign in that area; otherwise it should be pretty much the same as the last version.

As for attaching the southern map to the main one, the only reason they're separate documents is that the main map was getting too big to work with comfortably on my old 17" CRT monitor. The two maps do fit together; there should even be a slight overlap along the edge.

[taptap]

I understand that Wesnoth the game has distinct forest and mountain terrains, but on a worldmap it looks pretty strange to have these distinct forests and mountains. In my opinion there is way too few forest, my understanding is that in absence of cultivation many areas would be completely covered by forests.

Also it is quite clear that this map was made by adding up different maps. E.g. in HttT the Heart Mountain is already far north with plenty of snow and wilderness, but then other campaigns instead of populating the map added two more maps north of it complete with cities etc. and there is little practical difference between them, so basically it feels as if you are playing in mainly one climate zone (there are different forests admittedly), it feels like the scale of Wesnoth is shrinking in the process. Also for my taste the map has too much freak territory (desert, mountains, swamps) as compared to agriculturally suitable land - which is the expected result if you add up campaign maps. It might not be the ideal place for a campaign, but I always wonder where do all the peasants live that make Wesnoth the largest and most important kingdom etc. In the real world landscapes (at least in Europe) and even down to individual hedgerows have a history of their own (land disputes, enclosures, jurisdictions etc.) and they are historically dense - e.g. over several hundred years you have an unlimited amount of events, wars going this way and that way, stories, narratives tied to the places. If you look at LotR the maps look very similar in style to the Wesnoth map (lot of freak territory etc.) but there is one main difference, in the Shire it presents such an amount of detail (including an individual hedgerow!) that it creates the illusion of historical density. So in my opinion if one could place some campaigns in zoomed-in versions of the main map, it would probably be better than to add map to map... I wonder why nobody considered this.

[StandYourGround]

I understand that Wesnoth the game has distinct forest and mountain terrains, but on a worldmap it looks pretty strange to have these distinct forests and mountains. In my opinion there is way too few forest, my understanding is that in absence of cultivation many areas would be completely covered by forests.

That doesn't really matter… this works for fantasy maps, where you get the idea that the mapmaker added only the details that where the most important.

[hermestrismi]

Any mention of Araca here?

[Lord-Knightmare]

Any mention of Araca here?

Not here, try this link instead: Battle for Meridia MP Era Opening Post

[hermestrismi]

Any mention of Araca here?

Not here, try this link instead: Battle for Meridia MP Era Opening Post

Thank you