Making maps is cool

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I spent like a week making a map, not really based on anything in real life other than the Magius recreation I did before.

First color rendition (based on highlighter colors from my backpack):

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Colors:

Red - Jungle biome
Orange - Savanna biome
Yellow - Beach / Desert biome
Light Green - Plains biome
Dark Green - Forest biome
Blue - Tundra
Bluish Purple - Arctic
Light Purple - Swamp
Teal outline - Shallow waters

Alt coloration with Magius map biome colors:

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I plan on trying to learn how elevation maps work so I can make an elevation map version of this.

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looks like a dragon

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more like a crocodile or komodo dragon to me

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Was going for just a general animal skull shape for it

Kinda just saw the part curving in and thought “what if I extended some lines to look like teeth”

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Looking at elevation maps rn to try and find out generally where I should have things when I make the elevation map, if anyone has more things I should look at to help me understand them better please send me them

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what did you make this in… i made a few maps a while ago in something else (Inkarnate) but almost everything was behind a paywall :sob:

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I used google sheets for this

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was it good though…

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I like using it. It takes a while but conditional formatting is really useful

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kinda looked like russia lol

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ok so im working on the worldbox version of it in worldbox, I finished the close ocean outline

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This took FOREVER

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Google Sheets, the thing that allows you to make every form of diagram or whatever, but will NOT tell you how to.
Nah, I’d use MS Paint.

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I used sheets because I learned how to do pixel art with conditional formatting in a computer science class & thought it would be funny if I did it again

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Yeah it will, I forgot how but you can access a guide for it