Look at his projection - everythings streched out east-west. Taking that into account, there's a lot more north-south elongation that immediately seen.
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Some cut and paste from many maps in the blank map thread added some jagedness to Bhartia, the southern continent. It's still a work in progress, as is Borealia.
Someone's been looking at lunar maps... 
"Opticus" looks like a reasonably accurate multi-ring basin in shape. To have so little deformation, though, it must have hit relatively recently (<100 million years or so), and would probably have created a die-off similar-to-larger in scope to the PT extinction on Earth...
See Sudbury Basin for an example of what plate tectonics does to impacts of similar scale. No Opticus-sized impacts have occurred in the Earth-Moon system for 3.5 billion years, though it's no impossible that an isolated large impact could occur...
Simon
"Opticus" looks like a reasonably accurate multi-ring basin in shape. To have so little deformation, though, it must have hit relatively recently (<100 million years or so), and would probably have created a die-off similar-to-larger in scope to the PT extinction on Earth...
See Sudbury Basin for an example of what plate tectonics does to impacts of similar scale. No Opticus-sized impacts have occurred in the Earth-Moon system for 3.5 billion years, though it's no impossible that an isolated large impact could occur...
Simon
VT45, IS correct in what he says. If your planet is tipped at 33 degrees, then your Arctic and Antarctic circles should be at 57 degrees north and south latitude, respectively.
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You mentioned you made this in Photoshop, right? I was just wondering if you drew it all by hand, or if you used the more random method, which is to use the Clouds filter, and adjust it using the Brightness/Contrast filter.
Nope. I drew the original maps by hand, scanned them, and then traced them in Photoshop. And then when it was pointed out that the coasts weren't jagged enough, I just copy and pasted coast lines and islands from real world maps in the blank map thread.
Anyway, here is a combined map of the main continents (large file, beware). I still have some work to do, but I'm quite pleased with it so far.
This is coming along really nicely. I like the original outlines of the continents, and with the newly detailed coastlines, they're starting to look really good.
What I would love to see next would be the various sorts of environments besides just mountains, e.g. deserts, plains, forests. Maybe even the continental shelves.
Looking forward to seeing newer drafts.
What I would love to see next would be the various sorts of environments besides just mountains, e.g. deserts, plains, forests. Maybe even the continental shelves.
Looking forward to seeing newer drafts.
Thank you - I aim to please.
I'm going to be working on the enivrons next. Continental shelves? Probably not until I do more research into plate tectonics.
Presenting, in all its glory, the rest of the world! Well, sort of. I just have the two main continents and the rest is ocean. Warning, huge map - over 6000x3000 pixels. I have made final modifications to Bhartia and I will now embark on creating the rest of the world.
Too many fjords for one. Plus Islands don't work like that. The only way I can possibly think of as how this came about was a MASSIVE ice age, but even then I'm not sure. For instance look at a part of our world and see how much smoother the coast is at the same scale.