Anyone have a mercurator projection grid I could use as a baseline for an alien world I am wanting to make
A Blank Map Thread
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Hi, wondering if anyone might be able to help me out...
I am using Gimp to make a map at the moment and I have the Paintbrush tool selected. I am trying to do black. But as I fill in borders and make new ones like 3-5 different colors keep appearing... I don't know how to undo whatever it is I did. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.
I am using Gimp to make a map at the moment and I have the Paintbrush tool selected. I am trying to do black. But as I fill in borders and make new ones like 3-5 different colors keep appearing... I don't know how to undo whatever it is I did. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.
Do you have anti-aliasing enabled on the bucket fill tool? If it's on, then this kind of thing will happen. When mapmaking you want it to be off.
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Hm, I turned that off and it is now doing something else weird. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it seemed to just revert to everything I had before, which is weird. It won't do black on the first brush stroke on the paintbrush but I have to do it like 3 or 4 times before it makes black.... Hmm...
Wait, are you using the paintbrush? If you want clean lines you need to use the pencil.
Sorry, the pencil. When black or another color is selected it basically makes it a darker shade of the background color. So like a pink background and I select black on the pencil it makes it a purple-ish color. On yellow it makes it like a light brown. And I have to go over it multiple times to get it darker, but on some colors it never really gets black black, just like really dark blue.
Can somebody provide a completely blank map of Australia without the state divisions?
Morning all!
Is there floating around in this thread a blank map of Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant and Mesopotamia? Preferably with rivers but sans borders if at all possible. I want to see exactly how terrible Amunhotep V's bordergore is ca. 1142 BCE. 🤣
Is there floating around in this thread a blank map of Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant and Mesopotamia? Preferably with rivers but sans borders if at all possible. I want to see exactly how terrible Amunhotep V's bordergore is ca. 1142 BCE. 🤣
Will this do? It's amended from a Wikimedia Commons map, so I don't know what the projection is, sorry.
(click the thumbnail for the full-size image)Map created by FriendlyGhost using inkscape.
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You can probably find a good one in this thread by @Bob Hope: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...basemaps-for-q-bam-edited-by-bob-hope.483305/
Ah, so close, but no cigar. The second one here is nice, but I'd much prefer black and white and one less level of divisions. (S0 much to erase).
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How about this then? I took the 1st-level divs and rivers basemaps from post 3647 in the QBAM Improvement Thread and combined them. Credit of course goes to the original mapmakers.
Edit: two files now uploaded on postimage; one with rivers overlaid on 1st-level divisions; the second vice-versa. Click the thumbnails to go to / download the originals.
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That should work. Thank you very much!How about this then? I took the 1st-level divs and rivers basemaps from post 3647 in the QBAM Improvement Thread and combined them. Credit of course goes to the original mapmakers.
Edit: two files now uploaded on postimage; one with rivers overlaid on 1st-level divisions; the second vice-versa. Click the thumbnails to go to / download the originals.