King of Cartography
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“Sensible solutions from sensible people!” Comments the finest cartographer of the realm
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Juan Salinas Ruiz Villalpando de Ponce de Lyons approves this message!
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2 minutes ago, Urara said:
10/10 amazing read carto I was so moved by the part with the killing
Thanks, I got so immersed I started making a map of my living room.
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Juan Salinas Ruiz Villalpando de Ponce de Lyons prepares his best outfit, which is also his worst, he only has one.
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I felt inspired by this guide and gave it a go
This is an in-character diary. Please do not metagame the contents of this post.
Juan’s diary is subjective and contains only his IC perceptions of events. That means he can be wrong. he can be misinformed. he might forget details. he might have bad opinions. Etc. Etc. Probably don’t use this slightly-senile old human Cartographer as an objective news source lmao.
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Juan Salinas Ruiz Villalpando de Ponce de Lyons wishes that his full name was written on the invite
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How many is “Lots” of muffins anyway, i’m sick of these confusing messages from the staff, LOTC needs some clarity!
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3 hours ago, Disheartened said:
6. Guardhouse expansion.
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Including a relics hall, a meeting room with a map, and addition of rooms for guardsmen.
Juan Salinas Ruiz Villalpando de Ponce de Lyons thinks this is the most beautiful campaign platform he’s ever seen, he sets off to Haense to sell this woman one of his many high quality maps.
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1 hour ago, Chryasor said:
Unironically a good introduction into photobashing, a technique that can be far expanded into actual works of art with better software and some effort – look up Johnson Ting on Artstation and youtube if you want a good idea of what photobashing can do
True, but to make something good with Photobashing you gotta put in a lot of time and effort, and this tutorial is for the poor and downtrodden folk who aren’t willing to do that. The goal here is to have something that looks decent enough for a roleplay post and have it be done with in 30 minutes.
Also paint.net is amazing and i’ll keep saying that until I go to the grave, at work I sometimes have to use GIMP for simple image editing and it’s an absolute nightmare I hate it so much. I pray for the day there’s a paint.net version for Ubuntu
19 minutes ago, Nozoa said:aha time to scam people and plagiarize art!
jk lol
unless...
Yessss yesss!!!
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14 minutes ago, Xarkly said:
Actually extremely cool and innovative +1
Nothing to do with maps -1
It works on maps too ok, please give me my +1
1 minute ago, FloralHedgehog said:I thought it was a meme at first but this is genuinely pretty damn good!
Haha thanks!
1 hour ago, Archipelego said:Unironically great
Thank you!
1 hour ago, Treshure said:2nd one is actually fire, good job
Oh yeah, definitely the best one i’ve seen
1 hour ago, MotherLay said:Nice idea!
Thanks! I came across it a few years ago and tried to do stuff with it, but with this website anyone can get in on the action without having to do all sorts of technical stuff
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Hello my poor and talentless friends, today I take my vengeance on the actual artists by showing YOU how to make some art
You need two things to get started:
- Paint.net, this is a great image editor, it does more than MSpaint, but it’s not as complicated as Photoshop or GIMP, and it's completely free! you can download it at https://www.getpaint.net/
- Appropriate expectations, If you do this right you'll end up with something pretty cool
Let's make art for our character, his name is Angus McRedeyes, he is known for 3 things
- He has a big beard
- He has red eyes
- He never wears a shirt
Any art that doesn't meet this criteria is a complete failure
Okay, let's get started, for step one we are going to google to steal someone else's work, let's google Medieval Warrior man and look at some prospects
Wow! This guy looks good, let's use him!But he doesn't have a big beard and he doesn't have red eyes, we'll have to fix this in Paint.net
Open up Paint.net, load in the image and use the magic wand to remove the background, you'll end up with this
Perfect! now it's time to add the beard, let's find an awesome one!
oh yeah, that’s just right, download the image and open it up in paint.net!
Then go back to the main image and add a new layer, you can do that by pressing the + button in the bottom left corner
Now it's time to go back to the beard image, select it with CTRL+A, then copy it with CTRL+V, then paste it on the main image, but be sure to be on the right layer!
After that you can resize and move the beard so that it fits on the face.
Perfect! this is starting to look just like our character, but his eye color is ALL WRONG, let's fix that next
Create a new layer and use the Lasso select tool to draw circles around the eyes
https://gyazo.com/0a6c51951681c4ccd877f10a004b6e6dThen take the paint cannister and fill those boys up with some nice red color
https://gyazo.com/ce7b369d50b6be24ce86485cf7a3de7dNow for some advanced image editing
Go to effects → Blurs → Gaussian Blur and click on that, then select a radius between 10-20, click ok to continue
Then double click on the layer and switch the mode to OVERLAY
After that is done, use the eraser to remove the areas that don't need to be red
I ended up with this
Perfect! he has no shirt, a big beard, and red eyes! this is just like our character, now all we need is a background!
But first let’s merge all the layers together so we can copy and paste Angus later
Select every layer you added and press this button to merge it onto the next layer
Now let's add a background, our character lives alone in a dark castle because his friends stopped playing LOTC months ago and now he's run out of minas to pay taxes and this is the only thing he has got going for him in his life so he's desperate to find a new way of paying taxes
Let's go back to google!
Oh man! this image is JUST PERFECT, download it, and open it up in paint.net
Create a new layer on the background image, select Angus and paste him on it, you’ll probably get a warning because the background image is smaller, so select Expand Canvas
Then you have to resize Angus and move him around to a place you like, I put him like this
If you have an expanded Canvas You just need to crop the image, this is very easy, click on the RECTANGLE SELECT tool and draw a big around your work of art, use the Crop to select tool, i’ll show you where it is in the next image
After that Merge the layers again and save the file, let’s look at my result
Now at this point you’ll probably laugh and say that I made a joke tutorial as a complete and utter meme, because this is absolutely terrible
But my friends, with the power of Deep Learning we’re going to turn this into something decent
Go to this website https://tenso.rs/demos/fast-neural-style/
select your image and click upload
Here’s my output
This is not nearly the best image I’ve gotten when using this technique, but it’s okay
Here’s some more examples of stuff I’ve made
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Thanks for reading and good luck with your newfound art skills i hope you liked my guide thank you and good night
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roses are red,
violets are blue,
buy Lyons Cartography Maps,
and your dreams will come true
-Anonymous
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Just now, Lyonharted™ said:
(Very cool, though I was a bit startled, because Lyons is my real-life last name.)
(It’s because i’m your biggest fan Mr Lyons)
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A small pamphlet is posted in many of the settlements in Arcas, it has a simple message
Greetings Adventurers and Explorers, my name is Juan Salinas Ruiz Villalpando de Ponce de Lyons
You probably do not know my name but my family has for several generations made it their business to provide the finest maps to the descendants
I have traveled all over the realm
I have slogged through the jungles of the Queen’s isle and visited it’s many ruined temples
I have gazed on the hills and glens of Haense
I have traversed the Heartland of the Empire and the desert of Khorvassa
If you wish to see the other places I have been I have compiled for you a great atlas and guidebook to Arcas
It will make your travels in these lands much easier.
The rest of the pamphlet consists of directions on where you can buy this magnificent work
OOC:
SpoilerSo I finally got most of the map explored, I think there’s one or two small islands I might have missed and the big island in the north is not yet accessible for players so I decided to publish my journeymap files like this
You don’t need to pay my character to use these files
You can RP having this map however you want, you can ignore that you suddenly know where everything is, you can say you’re using the Lyons Atlas, or you can say you just have a great knowledge of the world
Also when using Journeymap be sure to turn the radar off to prevent metagaming
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3 minutes ago, Urara said:
If you ever want to read them again, I’ve got them all saved still. 🙂 There’s a google doc with all of them. Would be happy to share if ya like.
Oh yeah it would be nice to read through them some time! send me the link to the google doc please!
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Oh man I remember reading Lorina’s diary years ago, I was so proud whenever my character at the time (Tessa the paladin) was featured, I actually went and checked your old diaries a few days ago but the images were all removed!
Anyway I really like this one and I look forward to reading more!
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His small talk influences foreign policy
His hands feel like rich brown suede
His reputation precedes him the way lighting precedes thunder
The guards often question him, just to hear him speak
He is the talk of parties he has never attended
He can disarm you with his charm, or with his hands
He is a lover and not a fighter, but he’s also a fighter so don’t get any ideas
He is the most interesting man in the world
QuoteI don’t always purchase maps, but when I do I prefer Lyons Cartography
-The most interesting man in the world
Current map for sale:
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Contact Juan de Ponce de Lyons (CartographyKing) for pricing details or custom jobs
All maps sold as is, Lyons Cartography is not responsible for any accidents resulting because of a sudden and unfightable urge to explore the beautiful wilderness of Arcas, certain terms and conditions may apply
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not sure if this has your town but you can try this download
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1 hour ago, seannie said:
Name: Henry Lyons
Race: Human
Age:13
Discord#: Timothion#7831
Henry Lyons completely forgets about responsibilities he may have and sends in his application!
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Just now, Wolfdwg said:
"Surly you can do better, this INDEBTED prisoner is truly a lucky catch!" the auctioneer would state.
"I fail to see anyone here who's willing to pay more than myself" states the potential customer!
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"four thousand is an unreasonable price, i'll offer one thousand." Says Edmund Lyons
You know who doesn't have unreasonable prices? Lyons Cartography!
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Fear not, helpless peasant! The king of Cartography is here
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If you want more up to date maps you'll have to make em yourself by following this topic
this one time free map has been brought to you by Lyons Cartography
Buy Lyons maps, now i'm near bankruptcy please
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Brothers and Sisters of the craft,
I bring grave news! The domain name for my beautiful website (which nobody used) & voting tool (which some people used) has expired earlier today. Macecatcher.xyz is no more ?
I could just pay the 15$ and have it renewed for a year but that'd just be a waste of money. So why am I telling you all about this? well it's easy. There's a tiny chance that someone else is going to buy the domain name and throw a bunch of nasty stuff on there and i don't want to get banned if that ever happens.
Plz enjoy this eulogy poem for my poor website.
Macecatcher,
You cost me a dollar
Your code was bad
but you looked baller
The voting tool was a php file
but didn't have any php code
Haters can go explode
Anyway the domain name is dead but the website lives, on the off chance there's still one or two people who actually used macecatcher.xyz/Voter.php you can still access it by going to https://macecatcher.000webhostapp.com/Voter.php
Go get that daily minas boys and e-girls
Buy Lyons cartography maps the competition uses rats & poop we don't
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5 minutes ago, Paleo said:
so let us all calm down and enjoy a piña colada on a beach somewhere in Mexico, that sounds chill now doesn’t it?
1Not all of us can afford holidays to Mexico!
But what you most certainly CAN afford is a Lyons Cartography Inc map of Sunny Santegia, rather than a holiday which is only temporary fun this excellent piece of craftsmanship is guaranteed to bring joy to you and your family for ages to come!
Now that you have lots of free time to actually enjoy LOTC you should head on down to 2. Red square Markev and peruse all the wonderful maps!
Former admins get a 1 time 50 minas discount.
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AN INVITATION TO JOIN THE GOVERNMENT OF OREN
in The Kingdom of Oren
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“I see, so if Jonah Stahl Elendil leaves the army to join the house of commons it’s a slap in the face of all veterans and an insult to the honour of the Empire but when Amadeus D’Aryn abandons the work of GOD the moment something better comes along he is heroically serving the Orenian people.” Says Juan Salinas Ruiz Villalpando de Ponce de Lyons while he tries to come to terms with the Everardine school of thought.