Isaac Beach
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How's this by comparison? A bit rough admittedly, the peak in the western hemisphere should be directly above that inland sea, for one.
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Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread
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Isaac Beach
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NASA has something that might come in handy.
Uuuh, you might want to go back a page in this thread. I'm already using a very similar map provided by Tangle.
Although admittedly if I wanted to give Titan more water I'd use your map. Hmm... Desert Titan or Isle Titan, hard choice.
BTW, may I use your Titan map in my Sol Basemap, please?Uuuh, you might want to go back a page in this thread. I'm already using a very similar map provided by Tangle.
Although admittedly if I wanted to give Titan more water I'd use your map. Hmm... Desert Titan or Isle Titan, hard choice.
Isaac Beach
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By all means, it's one of the reasons I made it as your current Titan is Xhavnak/Woolly Mammoth's Ethel 3
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CannedTech
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Ooo, I might have a go at doing some of those, I have a vested interest since I've got some map game stuff with Solar System planets going.
Excellent work by the way Howaboutthis.
Excellent work by the way Howaboutthis.
Isaac Beach
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That sounds really cool actually. When you do make a map game and if you need assistance, let me know; that sounds right up my alley.
Thanks!
And you can call me Isaac if you like, certainly easier to write.
CannedTech
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That sounds really cool actually. When you do make a map game and if you need assistance, let me know; that sounds right up my alley.
Thanks!
Ah, it's an ongoing fiction ISOT map game of sorts, dunno if you're into that but feel free to join at any time. Fair warning though, the ISOT phase is over and the story phase is in swing. I'll probably use the idea behind it in future endeavors as well though.
That'll work, figures since it's your sig, shoulda seen that.
One thing I'm having a puzzle over is just how the hell Ganymede's gonna be mapped...
No, no, I meant it was much better than my floppy resized version of Ethel 3.
YeahOkayCool
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Does anyone have any advice on how to represent a tidally-locked planet in a basemap-type format?
Isaac Beach
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Well I'd indicate the point at which the planet is tidally locked, likely the middle, via a line or other indication, and that would mean one half of the map should be the outward face. After which probably just draw snow caps and ice water everywhere, as that'd demonstrate how frozen it is; you could differentiate the sun facing side by using lava or something. Maybe use different shades for the ocean, one light for the sunward side and the other dark to show it in shadow. Most other ways I can think of are just some variation of that.
Below is a scrapped project of mine (a tidally locked proxima centauri b). i think you can get a basic idea of how to represent the terminator line habitable zone(Maybe it should be a bit thinner and outward curving).
CannedTech
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Hey @ThePoliteCannibal, do you have any other map resources for the moons of Saturn/Juptier?
CannedTech
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Working on a revamped Ganymede Worlda based on a map provided to me by @Serafim. I'll be doing revamps of Callisto and Europa after this one as well, and will hopefully be able to do one for Triton if I can find a good map for it.
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Could you share these maps of Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, if it's not a problem? (Are they topographic/elevation maps or...)
It's barely anything but I have some Jupiter/Neptune Trojans and Centaurs:
Amalthea and Hyperion to scale:
