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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'>I hope this is not too big for everyone,
but I would like public comments on the physical layer before I lock it in and
begin the political layers. I especially want Richard’s
input. I tried to take my best guess on some of the forest areas, since
colors were sort of varied, so if I have flipped jungle for <st1:place w:st="on">Forest</st1:place>,
or vise-versa, let me know.<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'>Once I had the terrain masks created it
was a simple matter of using photoshop to create the relief and speckle layers
to give the flat colors the proper texture. So, if changes need to be
made at this point it’s not too difficult (I wrote down all my photoshop
steps so I can replicate stuff again)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The mountains (and the entire land) has topography based on a
fractal cloud function. When this was put into relief it produced visible
peaks on the map. I used that same topo map to find the high points for
the snow cover. If the location of these peaks is not good, I can redo
the topographic map (which will render high points at other areas). I do
sort of like the high peak in Death’s home, though<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I’m not 100% happy with the <st1:place w:st="on">Badlands</st1:place>
speckle…I have to experiment with it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The Desert speckle can be used for additional terrain context, if
so desired…the dark dashes indicate areas of rocky desert, with
non-marked areas more like sand seas. Thinking on this, I remembered how
I did it and I probably need to redo the speckle (it was based on the global
topographic, the end result being that the dark specks (rocky) were at the low
points, when instead they should be at the high points. I need to invert my greyscale
map before I generate the speckle.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The swamp color was the only layer NOT a flat color…I had to
use clouds and difference clouds, with a color gradient attached to that for
the swirl and eddy effect. If you don’t like the speckle I added to
that, let me know and I can experiment some more.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>If you see spots I may have missed (like peeks of desert showing
across the hills or mountains, let me know. This is a simple touch-up
matter of erasing the color layer (or adding to it). If you can include a
jpg crop of the point in question that would be great.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span 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
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl [mailto:pnp-bounces@abroere.xs4all.nl] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sylverrs_ dragon<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 19, 2006
9:21 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> broere@powersandperils.org;
pnp@abroere.xs4all.nl<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [PnP] The Western Lands</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'>Wout,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Don't remember which of these addresses is the current one so I sent
the material to both.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Attached you will find the text for the Western Lands and a bitmap of
the lands associated with it. Please put them up on the site as possible. The
text is a Word 2000 file.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Richard Snider<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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