agree that this is fantastic. Thank you.
Any suggestions for adding rivers?
Thanks!
There are two principal schools of thought when it comes to rivers: through-hex and on the borders. I experimented for a while with actual river tiles, but found this too disruptive to the overall design if the tile was otherwise "empty", and too much work to make vegetation overlays for every type of river tile (e.g., a river bend in a mountain region, forest region etc.) and cookie-cutter river tiles don't look very organic. And anyway, I am partial to the idea of having rivers along hex borders. So what I do is draw the river with a vector pencil on a fresh layer. I duplicate the two river bank lines, close the curve, fill with white and set the stroke to 0 on the duplicate. It's a bit fiddly and needs some adjusting around hex numbers, vegetation etc. but gives the most creative freedom. Maybe I'll come up with something more user-friendly in the future.