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One more comment to the wind pattern generation process: I find the gyres look more realistic - i.e., more similar to real weather maps, and also easier to use for figuring out where the ocean currents go - if the arrows are turned 60° instead of 45°. (Unfortunately I didn't realize that until after...

Pressure GIMP - Making a Pressure Map Make a new layer, called "pressure", and move it to the top if necessary. Fill it with 50% grey (#7f7f7f), then turn the transparency to about 50%. Make sure you can see your continent map and cell boundaries through it. Using the brush tool, blob on areas of w...

...hello? Is this thread live? Anguipes, I hope you'll get this app done eventually... 'cuz if you don't I'll have to write one myself - and I really don't have the time for that! :D Big kudos for the tutorial on how to visualize prevalent wind patterns, BTW. I had considered using the airbrush tool...

For a moment I thought this thread was going to contain the following question, or one very like it: "Hey, Zomp, when are you going to bring out the first Almea-themed boardgame?" FWIW the history of Ereláe* is very well suited to a Britannia-style "waves of conquest" game (though in the Ereláe cas...

The relatively low altitude of the mountains in northern Qaraumia seems to indicate that the Qarau plate (easternmost coast of Ereláe) is something like the Pacific plate on Earth, which is colliding with the North American plate along the S. Andreas fault, sliding one alongside the other. Another ...