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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Okay, here is the latest incarnation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Some changes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I didn’t like the little control over the Ras Relief filter,
so I use the Emboss for the mountains as well as for the hill and the rest of
the terrain (I just used more extreme values for mountains than for grassland
and the others)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Replaced the horizontal line speckle in the hills with a green “brush”
speckle. Basically, I used a fractal cloud effect to generate a random
element, reduced the effect in deserts and badlands and enhanced the effect due
to forests and rivers and lakes. This can be taken to be extra rugged hiss
(lots of brush, or more tree cover than normal, or thickets or whatever).
Please comment on this effect.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I expanded on my way of handling mountain topographics. When I
originally generated it I used the idea of a “limiter mask” to make
the 3-d effect fall off as you reached the edge of the mountain terrain, so it
would look more natural. Thinking on it, I added the river and lake
information to the limiter before I did my operations on it, so now the rivers
and lakes appear tho go with the terrain, instead of looking like they were
floating on top of it. This looked so good I decided to make a hill limiter
layer and other terrain limiter with the same effects thrown in. It may be
harder to see the effects on non-hill terrain since the emboss effect is so
toned down.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>All speckle effects are now applied BEFORE relief effects. Snow
looks better now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl [mailto:pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Adams<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 24, 2006
3:36 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> The Powers and Perils Mailing
List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [PnP] Western lands
remap, physical, first draft</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>At 07:33 AM 2/24/06 -0500, you wrote: <br>
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</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If I use a scan from the book I have to 1) clean
up the scanned half-tone to create a solid tone image. I then have to try
and massage the image to make sure it tiles properly.<br>
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I d rather just do it as a process than try and tile a fixed-resolution
graphic. This gives me the flexibility or working on any resolution of
map.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:white'><br>
You speak Greek to me with the image work. So good luck!<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Longshot - ZC of AdventureNet International Echomail Network<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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