tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54996516843532025962024-03-14T08:00:07.782+00:00Mr Nibbs' New MapsThe original maps of Titan are being updated and revised by the Titan Rebuilding forum members and drawn up by Mr Nibbs. This is a collection point for map data and relevant discussions.Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-58662780635522625672014-05-01T17:06:00.000+01:002014-05-01T17:06:08.174+01:00Mr Nibbs' MapMaker<div style="text-align: center;">
Mr Nibbs' MapMaker is a pack of over 200 symbols that allows you to create countless poetic maps for almost any fantasy or historical campaign. Trees, hills, mountains and more are all included, with detailed walk-throughs to guide you through the process of making fantasic maps.</div>
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There is a video preview of the manual at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew-EncUqaBg</div>
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MapMaker is available from: https://www.rpgnow.com/product/129153</div>
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Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-76404856544091719852014-04-27T20:10:00.000+01:002014-04-27T20:10:00.022+01:00More new maps!<div style="text-align: center;">
Mr Nibbs returns with some new draft maps and a few new videos on Youtube. </div>
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The base map from Beyond the Pit gets an overlay to show terrain types. </div>
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There is a short video at http://youtu.be/4fEeg5lvr6E.</div>
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A quick heads-up about getting down and dirty in Port Blacksand's sewers.</div>
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There is a short video at http://youtu.be/8aL7TQWY1T0</div>
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Lord Azzur's Palace revisited. </div>
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<br />Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-16355627594184853502013-09-07T12:49:00.001+01:002013-09-07T12:49:19.363+01:00Titan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The globe model has had some geography added. There are more photos on the Arion Games forum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A detail from the new sketch map of Allansia in progress. There will be a map legend to identify different types of terrain, ground cover and general climate. </span><br />
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Here are the first sketches for Salamonis. The layout is based on a real 15th century city and takes a wide range of practical things into account, although only a few are shown here.</div>
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The faubourgs are fun to design. The idea is that one family runs each faubourg, so there will be a manor house and a temple in each. With gatehouses and trade buildings in place, the details can be added later. </div>
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Introducing gunpowder into a game brings some challenges, as defences need to be redesigned to withstand cannon shot, sapping and mining. Town layouts need to be redesigned so that cannon can be used effectively and fire down open streets where attackers are channelled by the faubourg walls.<br />
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Fantasy mapping can use real world examples to create more plausible and predictable settings. In the real world, there is a practical reason why something is built the way it is. This is usually because it is developed from a tried and tested idea that actually works. Whether you need a plan for a large building or an overview of a community, adapting something from history is a useful way to develop a fantasy region, create a local history and generate adventure seeds. </div>
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"Merton Priory, situated on the banks of the River Wandle in Surrey, was one of the largest and most influential monasteries in southern Britain. Apart from one engraving of a chapel in 1800 and the survival of parts of the precinct wall, nothing was known of its exact location until the early 20th century."</div>
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Excavations were made in the areas bordered red. Later, the site was mapped. </div>
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For more info on this and other projects, visit <a href="http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/">http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/</a></div>
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This is a first draft for Lord Azzur's Palace. Totally non-canon, but it might provide some inspiration for writers. The basic idea is to reflect the development of the site. It begins with a simple motte and bailey castle built on an artificial hill. The other buildings are extensions and additions which appear plausible in the progression from a defensive castle towards its current status as a grandiose palace and centre of government. It has its own dock and garrison. The finished site plan might well include seven or eight levels, three of which are below ground. </div>
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Because the size of Titan has yet to be decided, the map area above is not to scale but still gives an impression of the landscape. The type of bedrock, water aquifers and shape of the hills all have implications which help narrow down the options for development later on. </div>
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A more detailed map showing possible land use and the different trade quarters one might expect in a growing town. One of the principle aspects of town layout is the fresh water supply, irrigation and, of course, plenty of underground (or covered) rivers and sewers to dispose of the enormous amount of refuse generated in a town of this size. "Wooden hills" should read wooded hills.<br />
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Based on a 14th century town plan, the 3D sketch above shows a citadel and defensive structures, viewed from the northwest. The four islands are artificial. The moats have been cut into the landscape and bridged strategically. Once these are in place, the rest of the city and the faubourgs (literally "out of town") can be planned around it. <br />
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These initial sketches are speculative but seem to work quite well, despite the fact that the landscape doesn't quite match the 3D map of the area around Salamonis. Feel free to use this as a base for designing your own towns and cities.<br />
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Other maps in progress include sketches for Azzur's Palace, the area around Salamonis and a 3D model of Port Blacksand. There are some sketchbook pdf's for you to hunt down. If you have them please share them around. More updates coming soon.<br />
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Getting the final tweaks to the plan map so that it still looks right on a globe is tricky. This is the result of experimenting with distorted proportions, projecting onto a globe and finding an image that doesn't look too strange. Luckily, those nice people at NASA Goddard have some great free software that does this in a few seconds, so it's really easy to do.</div>
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Here are some orthographic projections that seem to work well. Because the distortion increases at the edges, changing the viewpoint changes the shape of the continents. This is starting to work like real mapping now. We can assume that our global map is more or less complete and we can now give it measurements.<br />
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Allansia and the Old World are viewed from above the equator. The northern coastline will appear wider after the planet has been given an equatorial bulge. Khul is viewed from below the equator. The southern coastline will appear wider after the globe has been given an equatorial bulge.<br />
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Titan's North Pole. The ice cap shown here is probably a mountainous region buried under deep ice. As the seasons change, the polar seas will freeze and melt, creating a climate much like Earth's Arctic region.<br />
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Unlike Earth's Antarctic regions, the lands closest to Titan's South Pole are habitable. I imagine the Unknown Continent might have a landscape and climate similar to those of Iceland.<br />
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Mapping Titan as a globe. Circular grids like this provide a simple way of projecting a plan onto a sphere. This particular grid is called a Wolffnet projection. The distortion increases with the distance from the centre of the grid. With this in mind I added the 3000 miles of ocean needed in order to complete the globe, which is now 6000 miles in diameter. </div>
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Think of these as completely new maps. Earlier maps are incomplete or unreliable. Unlike the original maps these new maps are being designed to work as 3D models. The continents have been distorted to increase their landmass and reduce the amount of empty ocean. The new shapes may appear awkward at first, but we now have a map that fits onto a sphere. The next step is to plot the new map onto the globe.<br />
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I found and painted this 80mm diameter globe last year. Over the next few weeks I will be building up the mountainous regions and other geographical features so we can get a better idea of how things will look.<br />
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The land masses were plotted onto the globe from map data. It was immediately clear that the Titan map did not show the whole surface of the globe. After some discussion the continents were altered and the oceans widened. Similar alterations here will make a big improvement in plotting and mapping from the globe.<br />
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There are some surprises and useful information here which we didn't have before. I am sure we are going to have plenty of great ideas about how we can build 3D models of Titan and re-map from those.<br />
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Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-28340158834505365252012-10-04T13:53:00.000+01:002012-10-04T13:53:35.783+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an enlargement of the Titan draft map which we can use to start adding details on the continental maps. At some point the detail will be difficult to plot accurately and there will be problems with legibility, so regional maps may be required for some areas later on.<br />
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This is the latest draft map from June 2011. It is still not quite right. It has been more than a year since I last worked on it and coming at it with fresh eyes may help define the problems. Trying to figure out why the southern hemisphere is warmer than the north leads back to the problem of where to place the equator. Related to that problem is that there is no axial tilt to the planet, which is needed to create seasonal climate changes.<br />
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I am currently playing with the idea that the compass rose on this map isn't aligned with the planetary axis. Tweaking the axial tilt by about 10 degrees should make everything a little more coherent, so that is the next experiment.<br />
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I am now working on a new map of Port Blacksand. Like the Titan map, I am taking things right back to basics and working it out from there. One thing I noticed is that the temples in PB are not aligned to the cardinal points of the compass, as many churches are. Linking that observation with the Titan map, the axial tilt starts to make more sense.</div>
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<br />Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-85637497366325075862011-05-07T17:20:00.000+01:002011-05-07T17:20:28.888+01:00Titan Map v6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7sgXCKucrOs/TcVuks-9CaI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/BvD0m9dt4XE/s1600/Titan_v6d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7sgXCKucrOs/TcVuks-9CaI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/BvD0m9dt4XE/s320/Titan_v6d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-61382763659135996762011-05-05T10:48:00.002+01:002011-05-05T11:21:07.964+01:00Titan Map v6<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These latest tweaks to the draft Titan map means we can now make an index of locations with grid references. On the first map only the grid has been moved slightly to the right to improve the visual balance. No other maps use this new grid yet, so don't use it for plotting anything onto.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The latest blank map. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Is it just me, or does the unknown continent look like Amarillia the wrong way round?</span></div></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The climate map with revised text</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This layer shows towns and settlements. There is no text-free version yet.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The not-so-rough version of the Allansia draft map. You can plot onto this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The next version will show the full coastline.</span><br />
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</div>Mr Nibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857685485591942762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499651684353202596.post-67893194248292733222011-05-03T01:01:00.000+01:002011-05-03T01:01:17.409+01:00New Map of Titan<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here's the grid reference system. It's kept really simple so you don't need any map-reading skills to read it. Grid squares are named A1 to L10, which can also be used to refer to other maps showing greater detail. These maps will probably be part of a resource book for gamebook authors and players, so don't expect contemporary mapping. It really a design for a board game based on old naval charts. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This world map is a "how to get from A to B safely" document. It need only mark the ports and largest cities on the lands masses. This map contains most of the labelling on the original Titan map already, but there's more to be added. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the base map on which information layers are added. A text layer usually comes first because clarity and legibility are extremely important. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Other layers will use small graphics, colour and texture to add different types of information with more detail. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Translators: please note how the text for "The Old World" obscures the x showing the location of Atlantis, which will be moved further south later.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">More info from the original maps will be added to the world and Allansia maps. To complete the base maps we need to decide on...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">1. A list of the settlements that should go on each map, graded into small, medium, and large settlements. </span><br />
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2. Any given heights above sea level for important locations. <br />
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... and to explore any suggestions, comments, observations and questions you might like to post here. <br />
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