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Taijitu World Building => Planning Room => Topic started by: Delfos on June 27, 2014, 08:23:02 PM

Title: Terraforming
Post by: Delfos 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
(http://i.imgur.com/zJraxWl.jpg)
Proposed split
(http://i.imgur.com/VNfKutP.jpg)

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.

Quote from: St Oz on August 10, 2012, 07:28:20 AM

(http://map.taijitu.org/full.png) (http://map.taijitu.org/full.png)

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Eluvatar 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:

(http://i.imgur.com/Ootxotw.png)

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Delfos on June 27, 2014, 08:49:17 PM

D: make images smaller :P also add other pics you shown like:
(http://test.taijitu.org/newmap-tectonic.png)

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Khem on June 28, 2014, 04:29:26 AM

MORE PLATES!

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Delfos on June 29, 2014, 01:28:42 AM

Quote from: Phather Bad Drugs on June 28, 2014, 04:29:26 AM

MORE PLATES!

Based on an old map (http://test.taijitu.org/newmap-continents.png) where they didn't have full knowledge of the Novmiran South continent
(http://test.taijitu.org/newmap-tectonic.png)
and
(http://test.taijitu.org/newmap-continents.png)

New proposed main geological plates (will look prettier later)
(http://i.imgur.com/yx1KzrL.jpg)

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Khem on June 29, 2014, 05:11:17 AM

I really like but why Cefnor?

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Delfos on June 29, 2014, 12:18:21 PM

Quote from: Phather Bad Drugs on June 29, 2014, 05:11:17 AM

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.

Title: Re: Terraforming
Post by: Khem on June 29, 2014, 04:53:49 PM

Just doesn't flow nicely. How about... Azlant?