rocky mountain wrote:great job seamusk!!! congrats!
Thanks! As always great comments as well.
i agree with people actually about the signs. i especially don't like the ones in clarion river and tionesta creek... my favorite ones are probably alleghany river and S. Br. Tionesta
OK. I have a couple of questions then. Do you think that if I replaced those two signs that it would look ok? Do you think I should go to a single symbol for all territories? I also like those two signs. It is challenging with so many continents of course.
i kinda agree that you should change the texture of the private lands.
ok. I will tool around with it.
now it looks like there is desert outside of the forest...
oh, ignore that. When I increased the map size I didn't adjust the trees which covered that before. I had brown for soil look. Not that that is the texture I wasultimately going for because it wasn't.
the trail in the southern private land looks different...
It may be different. I'll take a look at it. I have an affect on the trail, but there were a couple of bits that might have gotten missed as they started on multiple layers.
the double territory watershed things (what exactly are they called again?) look better (the actual territories, not the signs, but they look good too) but the one between tionesta and alleghany looks kinda wierd because of the drop shadow.
There isn't a name for them. I wish I had a name for them. Something that was self-explanatory like dual-watershed territories or something. That isn't drop shadow. There is a gap between each continent when you bevel it as much as I did. I filled that gap with shades of the continents that meet.
the borders look quite sketchy, but i'm assuming thats the look you're going for.
No its not actually. I mean, a natural look would be cool but yeah...
in millstone creek, there are two townships right next to each other. it looks kindof confusing... maybe make all the village townships look different from the city townships?
hmm. What about labeling the city townships cT and village townships vT?
what exactly are watersheds? its about the map, but i'm just curious.
Good question. A watershed includes all of the water for a single stream or river or creek. So, the Millstone Creek watershed beings with the smaller unnamed seeps and springs and streams that feed into Millstone Creek. Everything flows downstream so a small watershed is also part of a larger watershed. Millstone Creek is technically part of the Clarion River Watershed. The Clarion River Watershed is part of the Allegheny River Watershed (which it unloads into about 20 miles downstream of the forest). So if a pollutant is dumped into a small stream in the Millstone Creek watershed, that pollutant will flow downstream until it becomes diluted or pollutes downstream watersheds (the Clarion River in this case).
Also, technically Above the Dam is not a separate watershed. it is the Allegheny River. However, ecologically the two areas are viewed very differently. Especially since there are two endangered species of mussel that live in the river below the dam. What flows "unimpounded" (aka not through dam) into the lower part of the river is of critical concern.
Good luck!
