New Map for Plvs Vltra

Maps are always welcome but I probably have everything I need in this website.

I haven't done much else lately.

Arabia:



West Africa (update):

Before finalizing the drawing, I thought it would be a good idea to start exhibiting detailed region-by-region previews in case some ideas emerge. The first preview is my favourite state for this period - France.

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Most province names follow the convention used in 18th century maps like this one.

In terms of provinces that never appeared in the traditional maps, we have Touraine, Labourd and Basse Navarre. Brittany is back to three provinces. There will be no access to Iberia from Bearn, Gascogne, and Foix. The wrong-cultured provinces of Labourd, Basse Navarre (Basque) and Rossello (Catalan) will be the only mountain passes to Iberia.

BigChef said:

Africa looks fine now. Are the small coast provinces in the west now good clickable?


Arabia:


Do you want to make Oman reachable by foot? Some other maps did this only by sea, but i like it by foot more.


Personally i never liked the northern desert on the Arabian Pensulina, it always looks to swallow the provinces of Syria and Mesepotamia. But i know it is a desert and should not be crossable, too bad there is no other solution...

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Yes, I sacrificed realism for clickability.

I'm not sure about the Arabian peninsula and whether Oman should be reachable by foot. I'm trying to remove PTI where possible as its bright white colour in-game is truly an eyesore but alternatives for the interior of Arabia are not easy to come by.

Next preview is Britain.

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The arrow signifies city changes. Portsmouth takes over Southampton at some point in the 16th century. Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester take over the former county towns in the 18th century by virtue of their industry and population. Londonderry takes over Dungannon (Dún Geanainn, the main stronghold of the the O'Neills) after the plantation of Ireland.

I'm not sure what to do with Lincoln. In the early modern period, Lincoln essentially became a one-street town and Lincolnshire, overall, was very thinly populated. Ports in The Wash like Boston and King's Lynn (though the last technically falls in East Anglia) also declined in importance. What I could is merge Lincoln with Nottingham and rename it to East Midlands. Midlands would then be renamed to West Midlands.

I decided to split Devon and Cornwall to represent Cornish culture and the thriving tin-mining industry. Cornwall was extended slightly eastwards to include Plymouth (which technically falls under Devon) because Plymouth controlled the trade of Cornwall. Additionally, England needs as many ports as possible to simulate and stimulate its historical naval supremacy.

Scotland has 9 provinces compared to England's 14 (13 if Nottingham and Lincoln are merged). They will be poorer of course but quantity alone should increase the probability of Scotland surviving up to the Act of Union. Scottish province names are (or should be) in Old Scots and the Irish ones are in Gaelic (except for The Pale).

In terms of cultures in Scotland The Hielands, Argyle and the Wastren Isles will be Gaelic, the Northern Isles Norse (it should switch to Scots at some point) and the rest Scots (or Scottish). I'm quite unsure about Argyle, whether Inveraray is suitable for a city and whether there should be a port in the region. As far as I know Inveraray was merely a small town around the Duke's castle. On the other hand I do not want to merge it with Clydsdale (like in the other map mods) as that would disrupt the Highland-Lowland cultural split. I might merge it with the Hielands even if the region would probably look quite odd.

Is anyone able to design a terrain layer like this: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?633193-DH-Map-Mod-DEC-Map

Neusidler said:

I think I can try do something like this, but I'll need some blank topographic maps in high resolution - for example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Topographic_map_of_South_America.jpg
And, of course, if the layer has to be like this on the picture, the terrain overlay will be visible on every map mode (political, economic, etc.), not only on terrain-mode (modifying *.tbl files). I'm not sure, but I think that terrain overlay visible only on terrain-map mode requires separate *.bmp graphics for almost every land province :blink:

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Do you require the projection of the blank topographic maps to match precisely with the projection of the map? That might be a problem.

M4 Emperior said:

Why PTI at areas, where Mali should be?

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There isn't any PTI where the Mali Empire and its successors should be (Timbuktu, Jenne, Khasso, Segu, Bamako, Bambuk, Bure, etc.). In any case the current map is slightly different from the preview shown here. There is less PTI in Western Africa as I added provinces like Aoudaghost and Ouadane.

There's this arcgis map but I haven't found a way to export it (and it's not completely blank anyway). I'll try to find others.

Here's a preview of Africa. Instead of PTI I thought it best to use "wastelands" modelled using inaccessible and resourceless provinces with 0 tax and MP having appropriate terrain e.g. desert for Sahara, jungle for Central Africa, mountain for Himalayas, etc.

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Does anyone want to help with the remaining parts of the map (mostly Asia and the Americas)? From next month I'll be on a tight study schedule so I will likely not have any time for research and drawing. However I can still take care of all the technical aspects (ID assignments, shading generation, and all magellan-related work).