#fantasyrpgmap

I’m doing it

For my birthday, we picked up the globe from the Lego store, and all the way home I was planning and considering challenges. When to start? How to start? What planning is needed? What scaling will I need to do? What additional parts will I need? How do I pick them? What program(s) will I use to plan the map? How do I chart it out? So many more questions swirling about in my head.

The biggest hurdle in my mind is this: The original map was generated from a fractal world generator, but at the time it only had Square projection and some of the weirder, less useful ones. Worse, even though I recorded the seed and other details, the processing seems to have changed behind the scenes, so attempts to generate the map again have failed.

So I only have a high-res square projection of the world… which was fine to convert it onto the wall map and for the purposes of hand-drawn regional maps… but now I’ll have to figure out the projection onto a globe. Then there’s inventorying the available parts, figuring out the map projection onto the plates, which parts, colors and so forth to represent the land masses… it’s going to be a lot of work.

So, with a lot more other non-Lego work to do, I settled on sorting out some of the math, getting started on scaling the map, since this will give me some idea of what follow up planning I need to do. I pulled the instruction book out, flipped through it to count the longitudinal (vertical) sections, count and calculate the studs available and then start calculating the scale.