Teacup Ae Terrain Preview (Patreon)

Bit of a preview of the terrain work I've been doing. This is still wip; each continent has been run at 3 km/pixel resolution for 400,000 years in gospl with uniform precipitation and no uplift. I ran them in individual hammer projections as per my tutorial, but stitched them together here. I haven't touched the seafloor much, you can see the seams between the continent sections if you look closely. You can also see my attempt to make something vaguely resembling mid-ocean ridges, which I don't expect to hold up well on close inspection but gives the seafloor a bit of texture.

Now I'll take the terrain and run it through some climate modelling and then some ice sheet modelling with PISM (parallel ice sheet model), which will help inform some final runs for another 120k years, which will also include some tweaking to encourage lake formation and add in better coastal and river delta landforms and hopefully a slightly finer resolution. I'll make some tutorials out on the whole process once I've figured it out; I'm also working on my own code to work out proper lake levels and river discharge from the final data, as no existing software seems to quite meet our requirements there, and take a whack at some kind of "true color" mapping. Maybe once it's all done I'll have a few posts just exploring the different resulting terrains and my overall choices in making them.