[agracier]

Agracier, the textures are looking very nice now. Did you modify them in any way?

BTW, why don't you make a map of northern Tunisia, since you seem to be working thru the entire Mediterranean?

They are textures I made from Google Earth. Over the last several months I was bitten by the texture bug, before I began to understand kevins map building tutorial. I really wanted some textures that would better approximate the dryness of a Mediterranean landscape, but without going into a desert look. I tried to get the reddish brown and the warm browns of parts of Spain, but since the landscape is so varied it also needed bare rock, whitish patches of ground and green as well.

I think I tried out some thousand textures along the way, most of them being utterly worthless. The ones here are at least some of the better results.

I didn't really modify the screencaps from Google Earth in any way, except to make seamless tiles via Paint Shop Pro 7. Mostly I left balance, brightness, color values and all that as it was. Once you start modifying those, there is no end to the results and permutations.

What i did find though was that it was best to make a whole bunch of textures from a single geographical area, say 25 to 40 of a brownish or a greenish or a grayish coloring, and to try them out by color tone on a map and then settle on a main theme.

You can then in later stages of map making, try and break up the tiling patterns in large same value RGB areas, by superimposing noise generated pixels and assigning a slightly different texture to the noise.

And on Tunisia - you anticipate things too well. I've a nice start-up map of Tunisia set up. It goes from Tunisia proper more to the west into Algeria. And I was trying out something on the Egyptian delta, for El Alamein and points west into Libya, but the Delta is a bit daunting it seems.

My big weakness however is placing objects, populating towns and creating real looking airfields and such. I think it's a lack of patience ... ha ha

Here is a view of the Tunisia map area ... but it is just in the startup stage.

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