IndigoGollum

joined 1 year ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
How long have you been worldbuilding? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not long. I've been interested in it for years, but never wrote anything myself until less than 2 years ago when i started my current big project.

My love of some of the works that have inspired my stuff is much older, of course. I grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Douglas Adams, and various fairy tales and novels i only vaguely remember now.

How would you approach the idea of coexisting sapient predators and prey? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Suppose the predators just eat other animals? I think if we found out pigs are sapient we wouldn't stop eating cows and chickens. Is the predator species' diet supposed to just be that one prey species?

The Tornado (a Lonely Galaxy story) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think this introduces your setting well. I liked the part about percussive maintenance.

Which type of worldbuilder are you? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm closest to the Architect, but i agree with Zonetrooper that worldbuilding can be just for its own sake. Writing a story is hard but writing about the world is fun. I have a tendency to think a lot about details and if something doesn't make sense, i work on it or surrounding new stuff until it seems plausible.

7
Can i group communities and search within these groups? (lemmy.world)
 

Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for "conlang" and "constructed language", open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.

Is there a way for me to make a group of all these related communities such that i can see posts from all of them in a single place, and search within all of them at once?

I have found myself cross-posting the same thing in ten different communities because there's no single most popular one. I think something like these groups would also stop this from happening as much. If somebody is going to see my post in one of those communities, it's reasonable for me to assume they'll also have similar communities grouped together and i won't feel the need to repeat myself.

What are you working on right now? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cartography. A few days ago i bought one of those empty Christmas tree baubles to draw a world on in dry erase marker. I didn't have any maps of my world at that point, so i'm working forward from a globe to flat maps, instead of the other way round. I'm pretty close to being ready to make my first flat paper map.

What's the best way to get a flat map from a physical globe? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm currently working on that second option, since it seems easier than trying to trace shapes on a paper cylinder around my globe. Thanks.

19
What's the best way to get a flat map from a physical globe? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
21 comments fedilink
 

I have a clear globe that i would like to project to a flat map. Any common projection should work, since computer programs exist for converting map projections. Where should i start?

A couple of details: First, my "globe" is an empty plastic Christmas tree ornament, so it can be hung from a string at one end but it doesn't have a stand like a normal globe does.

Second, this is a worldbuilding thing. My globe does not represent any real planet or similar body, which is why i need to make a new map from the globe instead of finding an existing one.

EDIT: To be clear, i know about projections already. I'm not worried about picking a projection. What i'm asking about is the process is for taking a physical globe and projecting that globe's surface onto a flat rectangle. I don't know how to turn an imaginary cylinder or cone sitting on my globe into a tangible physical or digital map. I don't have the means to cut up and unfold my globe until it's flat. What is the actual process for making a map from a globe, for any projection? I know this isn't how maps are traditionally made, but surely there must be a good way to do this.

3
How can i make myself poisonous to mosquitos? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm tired of mosquitos biting me. If i can't stop them biting me, the next best thing is to stop them biting me a second time. So what's the best (safe for me) way to make myself poisonous to mosquitos, and optionally other bugs that might bite me?