RE: Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #160 - Tough Trade Routes

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I wanted to come here and say that your post here the other day gave me a jolt of inspiration to get some stuff done, which I've been meaning to do for a while.

Something I have been lacking is a galaxy map, and it's something I have wanted to create for a while now. I have a very rough - and crap - looking one, drawn with pencil as a basic point of reference. But I have wanted to make a digital one for a while now.

This prompt gave me the kick up the ass I needed to figure out how to go about it, and I am currently working on it. I'll hopefully share it soon, and with it in hand, I will be jumping back in on the world-building.

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Thank you ! I've been lazy myself recently - too much RL stuff distracting me, lol.

Maps are always good ! I quite often start with a map. Looking at the geography shows me where resources, trade routes and natural choke points are, and from there I can see where the borders naturally lie, and where the conflicts arise. Gotta have a bit of conflict to drive the plot 😁

So far all my galaxy maps have been 2D. I've experimented over the years with ways to try to make them 3D, but it's always ended up being too complex to use. However, modern tools might help; I think creating it in Blender might just do the trick, even though it's using the software for something it was never designed for.

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