World-building Techniques

The Making of the World of Calidar

by Thorfinn Tait

I am writing this series of articles to document the techniques I've been using for my work on the maps for +Bruce Heard's +World of Calidar project, and to share them with my fellow fantasy cartographers.

This page is the series index.  For a full introduction, see the first article.

Series Index

• Introduction
• Continental Outlines and Map Projections
• Scale
• A Study in Scale: Meryath
• Building Base Height Fields
• Erosion
• Rivers
• Lakes
• Shaded Relief
• Climate Shading
• Planetary Models
• World Maps
• Continental Maps
• Hex Maps

Note: articles without links have not been written yet.  Actual order of publication may vary from this list.