#world map

Firstly, the Equirectangular elevation maps with and without the color gradient layer, and tectonic plate map. This color gradient marks sea level, of course, and while there are inland areas that are *also* below that elevation, I have yet to determine which of those basins have lakes and seas therein, and how their shorelines compare; *that* will be seen once I figure out the climate : ) As for the Plate map, most of the smaller, oblong plates without any rift boundaries represent island chains or continent fragments that accreted onto larger landmasses; discretely marking those was helpful for placing and shaping the mountain ranges.

Next, the Poles-Centered Perspective maps, made possible with Photopea's Polar Coordinates tool. The planet's Southern hemisphere, centered on the south pole, is seen at left, and its Northern hemisphere is seen at right. Like the previous set of three, this set includes the color elevation map, greyscale elevation map, and solid color tectonic plates.

Last of all, the basis for the planet's current appearance: it's tectonic history! These gifs, in six frames, cover about 200 million years of continental drift, starting with the breakup of two Supercontinents, and was primarily achieved in Blender. This isn't my first time trying to reconstruct a tectonic history, but it *is* my first time doing so this quickly and efficiently, thanks to the process I developed here using this planet's continents as a test case.

Was taking a look at the World Map this afternoon and finally figured out how to extract the Luminax textures from it. Combined the right-facing idle and roar strips for the above, and the left-facing ditto for the below (Luminax is not symmetrically coloured, so there's left- and right-facing strips for every animation).

Haven't attempted the walking animations, since as well as right- and left-facing there's also facing-front and -back directions - so four different pose strips, and there'd need to be 4 different gifs made. Blargh.

— Added a few caves from existing stages of Kirby levels here and there

— Downsized existing structures to make the map feel more bigger in comparison..

— Added transparent cloud background to Floralia to make it more apparent that they're floating islands.

— Added cyan waters to some places here and there to match with their appearance in their respective games? I suppose.

— A few locations like Iceberg and Quiet Forest(the location where 64's Pop Star takes place in) are made accurate to their game appearance!

— Cookie Country has more details

— Kirby Battle Royale locations are added! Apple Scramble Forests and Fenced Forest, Battle Arena, Ore Expressways and Twisty Tunnels yadda yadda.

I think that's all the changes that have been made

Enjoy!

(Version 11 is on Reddit)

Updated Maps

(Version 13):

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Welcome back, everybody, to another trip between worlds. Thank you all again for your support, it's been rough having to rebuild everything from scratch, but I'm glad to say that 100 of you have found your way back! Perhaps as we travel across dimensions, we'll run into more familiar faces?

Reminder: If you would like to edit your AU's image, description, etc, you will need to DM me by June 18, 8pm PST. After the deadline you will not be able to make any edits until the end of Round 1. (CWs are exempt and can be changed at any time).

Polls will be released on Sunday, June 21, at 6 AM PST.

Each AU and their respective creators are listed below the cut. A closer look at the bracket is also included below.

(in other words i removed all land whose antipode is also land)