Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

News: Post a large number of kitten macros and .gifs so that no space on the forum is left bare!

Author Topic: Terraforming  (Read 3860 times)

Offline Delfos

  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6975
  • Who is Aniane?
Terraforming
« on: June 27, 2014, 08:23:02 PM »
So I've been waiting to do terrain on Oz's map, yet there's plenty of beatching about knowing whether or not how terrain works, so lets do this constructively and start from scratch, hence the topic name of terraforming.

I want to say that I've no degree in geology nor I pretend to know how it works, I simply mimic real earth terrain. Anybody that wants to contribute by saying how one thing should be different

First, macro tectonic map.
Context: supercontinent twist and split, mind I didn't do major distortions

Proposed split


Warning, this is not to be RPed, this is only to make sense to mountainranges and rifts and whatnot. This will be an ongoing discussion.


Offline Eluvatar

  • Tech Monkey
  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 3111
  • O_O
    • Taijitu.org
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2014, 08:46:53 PM »
I would prefer if we didn't start completely from scratch. We have some terrain that I'm pretty happy with, for example:

                                 
(click to show/hide)

Offline Delfos

  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6975
  • Who is Aniane?
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2014, 08:49:17 PM »
D: make images smaller :P also add other pics you shown like:

Offline Khem

  • Pha bless you.
  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6171
  • OG-Citizen
    • Khem
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2014, 04:29:26 AM »
MORE PLATES!

Peoples Confederation of Holy Isles of al'Khem
:tai: Persona :tai: Worldbuilding Guide :tai: Nation of al'Khem :tai:

Offline Delfos

  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6975
  • Who is Aniane?
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2014, 01:28:42 AM »
MORE PLATES!

Based on an old map where they didn't have full knowledge of the Novmiran South continent

and


New proposed main geological plates (will look prettier later)

Offline Khem

  • Pha bless you.
  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6171
  • OG-Citizen
    • Khem
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2014, 05:11:17 AM »
I really like but why Cefnor?

Peoples Confederation of Holy Isles of al'Khem
:tai: Persona :tai: Worldbuilding Guide :tai: Nation of al'Khem :tai:

Offline Delfos

  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6975
  • Who is Aniane?
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2014, 12:18:21 PM »
I really like but why Cefnor?

it's debatable if there is a whole plate on that inner sea and apparently it's ancient name, which can always be changed, is Cefnor.

Offline Khem

  • Pha bless you.
  • Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 6171
  • OG-Citizen
    • Khem
Re: Terraforming
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2014, 04:53:49 PM »
Just doesn't flow nicely. How about... Azlant?

Peoples Confederation of Holy Isles of al'Khem
:tai: Persona :tai: Worldbuilding Guide :tai: Nation of al'Khem :tai: