dobdriver's maps

[art128]

Fantastic work lately on your maps, dobs! 

[Sciurus]

Excellent maps, these are wonderful! I would know the technique to do as beautiful maps as yours!

Guillaume

[supremec]

Really talented mapper!!   
Your maps are all awesome!! 

[epicblunder]

Sweetness.  Thanks a lot dobs; that's a superb map!   

Also, I recently rendered your Oahu map using the TSC terrain mod and PEG's hawaiian holiday water.  It looks great.
(click for full). 


epicblunder, I must ask you to change your image from a .png file to a .jpeg. Most of the time, a .png file turns out to be very large which makes it slow to load and takes up unnecessary bandwidth. Yours is nearly 20 MB, so I have deleted it and provided a link for those who wish to see it.  -Joan (Jmouse), SC4D Administrator


edit:  .png replaced with .jpg. 
Again, my apologies for the filetype mixup.   

[Izidor44]

Hi Dob,

This Arkhanglesk map is INCREDIBLE ! I can die now...!

Brilliant as usual 

Izi

[portlandexpos04]

Wow, that Oahu map/screenshot is amazing!   

[Gringamuyloca]

Also, I recently rendered your Oahu map using the TSC terrain mod and PEG's hawaiian holiday water.  It looks great.
(click for full). 

Wow, that Oahu map/screenshot is amazing!   

It IS amazing!  ... a gentle reminder to ensure pictures are .jpeg (.png(s) abuse most browsers and sites.)
 

[epicblunder]

  ... a gentle reminder to ensure pictures are .jpeg (.png(s) abuse most browsers and sites.)
 

Whoopsie! I thought I had saved it as a .jpg.  Looks like I didn't.     My bad sorry.

[dobdriver]

G'Day Devotees,

Well Christmas cheer is upon us once again, so to all, what ever your faith I wish you a joyous and festive season.

And the map-o-matic still burning rubber ;<)

Thanks Arthur I hope you do enjoy your map, cheers

Gillaume Thanks, I can help you out if you want.

Thanks Supremec I'm glad you're liking them.

And you also Epic, Thanks and what a gorgeous looking region that is.

Thanks Izi, there was a good few hours work in that map. Don't die too soon mate.

Portie you can say that again.

And thankyou Gringamuyloca for reminding Epic. Don't feel too bad Epic, what's 20meg between friends ;<)


And a show is on for chrissy.


First up is a request courtesy of Chrisrs95, thanks mate.



Clifton Forge is 61.44km x 57.3448km.


Sort of follows from Cumberland.


Next we have a couple of requests courtesy of Wraner, Thanks mate.



Yuzhny is 49.152km x 57.344km.


More Russian wilderness, and cold I should think.



Nashville is 57.344km x 57.344km.


I think I saw the Grand Ole Opry.


And along for the ride is this courtesy of T-Tail Productions, Thanks mate.



Williston is 49.152km x 53.248km.


Oil country.


And rattling around in the bottom of the box is another courtesy of drunkapple, again? Somebody tie 'im up please.



Launceston is 49.152km x 40.96km.


This is the first map with my new Aussie 1 second dem.


That is your lot for now, the show is done but stay tuned I believe there will be another next week. Until then.


Thanks for looking and have a great Christmas.


Cheers
dobs

[Sciurus]

Ok, I'll send you a PM

Anyway, you give us an excellent work!!!

Guillaume

[eugenelavery]

More great maps dobdriver.  Calvi is going well.  I will send you some pics when I get a chance.  Thanks for mapping Male'.

[cogeo]

Hi dobs,

I'm amazed with the quality (and quantity too  ) of your work with the maps.

I would like to post a request. How about the Thessaloniki (Thessalonica) region in Greece? It's my home city. I tried making it myself, but with the 8-bit technologies I'm using the result was not very satisfactory, and had several technical problems too, so I abandoned it.

The area I'm interested in isn't that large, and in addition I find that large regions not only will never filled by the players, they cause the cities to be loaded/saved much more slowly. So I would rather prefer a relatively smaller region, like 7x7 large tiles (still larger than the maps I usually play on). If the map is about to be accurately scaled, a good rectangle could be 22°41'15"E (just west of the delta) to 23°01'10"E (town of Thermi) and 40°28'00"N (just north of the town of Mechaniona) to 40°43'00"N (town of Oreokastro). This includes quite interesting geographical features. If you are for a larger or scaled-down map you could include the mouths of rivers Loudias and Aliakmon to the west and lake Coronea to the east. Btw I see you upload your maps in .png format. Is this a standard .png, that can be processed (basically cropped) with an image editor? In such a case a larger map would be good (players could crop the map and extract the part they are mostly interested in).

And some points that could cause troubles:
- Some areas are below sea level. Check the images in this thread. Not sure if all those areas are below sea level or it's just the quality of the data I used (cgiar.org) but some really are. Btw what data are you using?
- River Gallikos may be a little hard to make, as the bed is shallow, while its banks can be quite steep in places. Not sure if the standard river tool can do this easily.
- Rivers in general can be troublesome, because elevations are low.
After making so many maps, I'm pretty sure you know how to cope with these.

It would be great if you make this map. I could help with reviews and testing (prior to releasing it).

Cheers

[dobdriver]

G'Day Devotees,

I trust we all had or will have a marvellous Christmas, and everyone gave and received what they wanted. 
And the festivities keep coming so I hope everyone will have a great New Year.


Thanks Guillaume and I shall send you some details after New Year. ;<).

Eugene, Thanks mate. Male' is is not quite finished yet, it's in the pot with the rest of the ingredients.

Welcome Cogeo and thanks.

Thessaloniki is now on the books. The map will be scaled to 1 large city tile - to 4096m. I scale for longitude only across the point of interest, in this case Thessaloniki. On the large large scale maps I have made I scale the longitude across the northern and southern boundaries but with the smaller 1:1 scale maps have found the difference in longitude between the north and south to be only a few metres.

That .png map is the only one, the older 8bit maps still available are all in .bmp with the remainder in.SC4M format. I uploaded that when the stex was a bit flaky and not accepting uploads over 8MB. It is a standard 16bit .png and as such can only be edited in a 16bit capable editor. Editors such as paint.net or the GIMP can only resave it as an 8bit image, it will become very blocky and submerge below the sea level.

Yes below sea level, that can be a problem. I have made a few that were below sea level Norwich and Oldenburg, Rotterdam although I haven't released it yet and Volgograd. Once I developed a technique They became much easier to deal with.
I mostly use SRTM data, I am not overly keen on CIGAR's void patching technique also they wriggle the data a little and it is a bit different to the standard SRTM. I recently received some 1 second data for Australia, all the voids have been patched and and the striping and vegetation removed, it's nice to use. ;<)
Hmmm I don't know either. I don't use terraformer for editing only to make the .SC4m file and take an overview pic. I use photoshop to make the maps in.

No worries I'll send it to you for bug testing.


End of year show is on.



First in the gates today is courtesy of a request from Darth_Yencoron, thanks mate.



Cowra is 53.248km x 45.056km.


A dark history with WW2 escapes.



Next along is courtesy of a request from Derek L, thanks mate



Butte is 49.152km x 49.152km.


There's Copper here somewhere.



Followed along by a request courtesy of Bayboy2011



Huntsville is 28.672km x 24.576km.


The boating's great! Come on up for the summer.



And last for the year is courtesy of Sulivan1206, Thanks mate.


Bogotá is 57.344km x 57.344km.


Surrounded by the pointy hills of the Andes.


So we'll see you all next year. Same bat time, Same bat channel.


Thanks for looking and have a great day and tomorrow.


Cheers
dobs

[Sciurus]

Well no problem!
These maps are wonderful, congrats mate!

Guillaume

[dobdriver]

G'Day Devotees,

Well today sees our beautiful Earth turn another year. Happy Birthday Earth, 3 hearty cheers to you!


The old map-o-matic has been running in overtime and overdrive and for the year seen 150 maps purged from it's innards.
I find I still have about 30 map requests and as such I am closing the request book for the time being until I have completed them and then probably have a little rest also.   
Some of you may not realise but I am away 6 months of every year working so those 150 maps were really completed in 6 months, almost 1/day.

Thanks Guillaume 


And a New Year show? Why of course.


Lonesomely rattling about in the map box courtesy of VT_Railroad_Guy is....



Johannesburg is 73.728 x 73.728.


The eye of Jo'burg.


That's all she wrote.
Thanks for looking and have a great day, especially.


Cheers
dobs

[Izidor44]

Hi Dob',

A sincere "Happy New Year" from a disciple ! Continue this excellent work after a (short) rest... ...not too long I hope as my mouth keeps salivating, looking at your wonderfull maps.

Cheers with (again) a glass of Champagne,

Izi

[Sciurus]

Happy new year dobby! I wait for your answer with impatience!!

Guillaume

[dobdriver]

G'Day Devotees,

I hope everyone who could got merrily drunk and those who couldn't will just have to wait until they're older. I knew she couldn't, the map-o-matic has been smoking up a storm this week and sees another lovely batch of maps for one's enjoyment.

Thanks Izi, I trust you and yours enjoyed a bubbly New Year. Chin, chin drink up my good mate. Your maps are looking better all the time, keep up that grand parade.

Thank you Guillaume, I also hope you had a splashing good time for New year. I have just about finished your tutorial for the maps. ;<)


Oh! there's something rattling in the box.



And rummaging around first up I find this courtesy of a request by Swordmaster, thanks mate.



Antwerp is 86.016km x 69.632km.


Don't get your feet wet.



Next to fall out of the box is courtesy of a request from 421, thanks mate.



Beirut is 49.152km x 57.344km.


A little bit hilly, a little bit flat, a little bit wet...



Followed by this request courtesy of Butch72, thanks mate.



Etowah is 36.864km x 36.864km.


A little Tennessee countryside.



Thanks to Usfighter15 for this next request.



Guam is 36.864km x 49.152km.


Some Pacific paradise.



But wait, there's more. This request is courtesy of Gaets, thanks mate.



Timmins is 57.344km x 49.152km.


Now I think this place is a wee bit cold, looks great though.



And tailend charlie for this week is courtesy of a request from Tomany2, thanks mate.



Wake Island is 8.192km x 8.192km.


More Pacific paradise? Hmmm maybe not.



And that brings us to the end once again of another show.


Thanks for looking and have a great day.


Thanks and cheers
dobs

[dedgren]

Absolutely amazing maps, dobs.  And the map-o-matic's bearings must be smoking.

This is K-point worthy if anything is!

David

[Sciurus]

Once again, these are wonderful, nothing more to say appart that.

Guillaume