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by Gareth3
Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:50 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Sorry for the delay in replying, but this is excellent stuff.
by Gareth3
Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:09 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

That's very clever, I'll try it myself.
by Gareth3
Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:48 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

I've divided up the land-use areas by climate and geographical barriers, giving me cultural areas. There'll obviously be more than one culture per area, but this is a start. http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a469/gareth_wilson1/CULTURES_zpsvtbk0fnv.png F Fishing, taiga P1 Pastoralism, taiga P2 Pas...
by Gareth3
Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:24 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Now I have both rivers and land-use patterns. http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a469/gareth_wilson1/landuse_zpsy3hwmgx4.png Black: Major mountain chains Blue: Major rivers Red: Hunter-gatherers Brown: Herders Yellow: Irrigation agriculture Light green: Rainfall agriculture Dark green: Garden agric...
by Gareth3
Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:26 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Thanks. I'll keep the coastline as it is now, but these things could change the other details.
by Gareth3
Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:15 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Maybe just "Stuarta", to make it a bit less obvious?
by Gareth3
Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:48 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Sorry for the lack of updates, I got distracted. The other continents are mostly there to determine global climate stuff, if I wanted to use them as actual settings I'd need to give them more detail. I'll post some more about Stewarta soon. Come to think of it, can anyone suggest a better name?
by Gareth3
Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:53 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

This should give you an idea of the arrangement of the continents on the planet. The shapes of the continents are roughly accurate. Pastora now lies between 30 South and 75 South.
Image
by Gareth3
Mon Dec 12, 2016 7:14 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

I'm using 2.8 as well. I can't quite get to a single pixel.
by Gareth3
Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:23 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Yeah, I'm using GIMP to make these images. The only problem is that it's awkward to actually draw anything in GIMP - I still haven't found a single-pixel brush. Here's a question for readers, even those who haven't commented yet. For my next post, would you like me to go into more detail on Stewarta...
by Gareth3
Mon Dec 12, 2016 3:42 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

They are water-courses, down to quite small streams in the original island image. Stewart Island is wet. You're right that they're not appropriate for the desert, but they're quite tricky to remove. As for drawing my own continents, maybe I could kill two birds with one stone and draw some of the ot...
by Gareth3
Mon Dec 12, 2016 3:21 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

I note that Stewarta is quite hilly everywhere except North Valley and Bight. Your desert and savannah areas seem pretty rugged. Might want to think about some plains in some places. Yeah, this is the scale issue. The actual Stewart Island is the end of a young mountain chain on a plate boundary, s...
by Gareth3
Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:55 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

The next step is to divide up the continent into regions. I'm doing this mostly by climate, but I'm also allowing for natural borders. The regions aren't 'countries', especially where the land isn't productive enough for states to develop. But there'll be one dominant culture per region. http://i103...
by Gareth3
Sun Dec 11, 2016 5:23 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

OK, that makes sense. Are there any changes you'd make to my latest climate diagram, going by your winds and ocean currents?
by Gareth3
Sun Dec 11, 2016 4:16 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Thanks for working on this. Am I right in thinking there would be two desert areas, using that diagram? One in the rain-shadow of the Southern mountains, and one in the middle of the continent where the winds diverge at about 40 degrees North?
by Gareth3
Sun Dec 11, 2016 2:41 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Here's an update of the climates, using zompist's breakdown. http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a469/gareth_wilson1/stewartclimate_zpsvg9blvq1.png Here's the colour key with the Koppen climates: Dark blue Taiga Dc Teal Marine Cfb Yellow Mediterranean Cs Orange Steppe Bs Red Desert Bwh Bright blue M...
by Gareth3
Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:32 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Cool, looks like you got it! I did a wind/current of your map, including in GProjector, if you want to see them just say and I'll post them or PM them to you. Not posting right now cuz you are well on your way, and I don't want to hijack your thread. No, I'd like to see them. My climate map needs r...
by Gareth3
Sat Dec 10, 2016 10:58 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

mèþru wrote: zompist made a key for mapping Köppen climate classifications, with some category mergers: http://www.zompist.com/pckclimate.html
Thanks. I think I have to go into finer detail with the climate, and I may as well use his system.
by Gareth3
Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:25 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Here's my latest climate map: http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a469/gareth_wilson1/climate_zpsfium7fo6.png Red is desert. Orange is Steppe. Yellow is Mediterranean. Teal is "Oceanic", Seattle or temperate islands. Green is "Continental", more extreme temperatures than Oceanic. Blue is Subarctic o...
by Gareth3
Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:54 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Thanks for your comments. I'm assuming that any other continents are far enough away to not influence the climate patterns on this one. Or may just a simple influence - there could be a continent over the North pole, just to keep the pole as cold as ours even though it's not an enclosed ocean. I'm w...
by Gareth3
Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:07 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

You might be interested in these worlds. Yes, they're the sort of project I'm doing. He often uses Earth's existing continents and manipulates them in some way, even turning them inside out. That's a bit different to what I'm doing, but some of his planets have continents from scratch, and there's ...
by Gareth3
Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:54 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Thanks for going into detail on this, it's really helped me. What's the actual climate of that desert in the North? I understand it's drier, but what does that mean up around 60 degrees North? Here's my attempt at the climates: http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a469/gareth_wilson1/stewartfliprings...
by Gareth3
Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:58 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

OK, I start with an unlabelled map of Stewart Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Island and flip it left-to-right: http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a469/gareth_wilson1/stewartflip_zpsfi4ko5dd.jpg The continent will stretch between 60 degrees North (St Petersburg) and the Equator, so it'...
by Gareth3
Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:51 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

Yeah, wikipedia says it's the polar front at about 60 degrees. Thanks for your help with this, once I get image hosting I'll put up some maps.
by Gareth3
Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:47 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Creating a continent
Replies: 58
Views: 37098

Re: Creating a continent

It's a different planet, but identical to Earth other than the different arrangement and amount of continents. That map of the winds is very useful. What's the latitude of the line that cuts through Scandinavia?