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(Help) Fantasy textures? (Final Fantsy, middle earth, etc)

Posted: 24.08.2003, 01:36
by Guest
I'm a big fan of fantasy cartography and have many maps that I have extracted from video games. I would very much like to clean them up and import them into Celestia, but need some assitance.

I have maps for Final Fantasy 1-10, various Ultimas, Phantasy Star maps some incomplete middle earths, some incomplete "Grey Wolf", Dareth from "Asheron's Call", and others. Here are the issues I have

1) I'm exclusivly a linux user. No windows utilities.

2) I need to make many of these maps look much more realistic and up the resolution, what utilities can I use

3) Worlds like "Middle earth" are incomplete, what should I put in the blank spots?

4) Many games like the "Final Fantasy" and "Phantasy Star" series use a toroid-shaped "planet" with a square surface aria. Besides making the landmass smaller, how can I deal with the "Pinch" that happens at the poles?

5) Has anyone tried this before? Links anyone?

Thanks for the help

-Halkun