No worries. Keep the map originals coming and I'll trace them when I see them. That map, by the by, is a vectorial graphic, so I can give it to you on any size without loss of image quality.

Ok! Added updated Elemental aetherchart as well as the whole thing in glorious detail. (Main aetherchart page)

Only the big sucker to go... but that might take a couple of weeks to get through.

I'm on it... the Elemental one is big and detailed, so it'll take a while.

UPDATE:

That's just a sample... for full effect you'll want to look at the big version.

Looks good, though I feel that nameing anything "Vortex" could be confusing, taking into account a certain theoretical Cosmic plane...

I'll have to redraw the map when that comes out anyway.

That's awesome.

I wouldn't go overboard with the names though.

Edit: Ouchies... forgot I was in aetherspace while I was posting.

Anyway, I hope Estarra reads this thread and gets to see your maps, and any others that people put up!

Psh... you're just angry I didn't name anything after you this time.

Yes... hence why you went 'overboard' and off my ship!



Edit: Is it possible to get a slightly smaller filesize image to put on my map page? That big version is almost 800kb.

Edit edit: Oh, and if anyone else would like to make their own versions, I'm happy to display those as well!

Don't be intimidated by Verithrax, well, not too much anyway.

You could bastardize it and convert it to jpeg, I suppose. I'll see what I can do about making it smaller as a png.

UPDATE: The image file crushed with pngcrush is marginally smaller, so that's pretty much as small as the file gets.

Elryn, I think these new style aetherspace maps rock, good work!

hmmm how many colours does the map use? Gif might be a better format, small size and no compression artifacts like with jpg.

Mine are compressed with png, which is smaller than a gif and not tainted (By patents, not Kethuru). Let me try conversion to gif to see if it gets smaller.

Hi Verithrax,

I got 245kb when converting to gif and the quality still looks good.

I was going to do the same... ninja'd.

What software did you use to convert? ImageMagick messed up my feathered edges.

Paint Shop Pro 8.

It has a couple of different options for reducing the colours to 256, usualy does a good job of it.

Thanks to you both! Updated the page with your new map, Verithrax.

Nice! I should have a cosmic one for you eventually.

I hate how gif fouls up my pretty feathered edges, but here's Cosmic Aetherspace. I hope the pretty symbols are obvious enough; I've no idea what they look like (The Nil one started out as a cloud of Tainted fumes, strangely enough) but they definitely look Cosmic to me.

Now I'm sad... only ethereal looks like "something"... Elemental might look like an upside down mamoth, but what does that have to do with elements?

You don't see a deformed crocodile chasing a psychotic rabbit?

umm, sure I can see that too.. but whats it got to do with elementals?

Hmm. No idea. It makes me smile though, even if it isn't very flattering for Celest.

And I've added your new map Verithrax... you're a machine! (But anyone else who's interested can still give their interpretation!)