Starting your map with landmasses and plate tectonics || Worldbuilding Guide Series Part 1

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Welcome to the first video in my worldbuilding guide series for creating an Earth-like planet! This video is on Landmasses and Plate Tectonics.
DISCLAIMER: If you are looking to create a fantasy world in a few hours, this guide is not for you. If you are looking for good value between time spent and realism in your fantasy world, this is probably not for you either. This guide goes way more in depth than most other worldbuilding guides to a level that is objectively not necessary. However, “necessary” is not the point here. If you want to understand WHY your world is the way it is and let your world come alive as you slowly mold it, then this guide is for you.
To already contradict my disclaimer, the reason I go to this level of detail in creating my fantasy worlds is not just because I enjoy it. Things like geography and climate have a huge impact on civilization. Knowing about the world around your people is the first part in understanding them.
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All graphics/images included in this video are in the public domain of the United States. Attributions are below:
Plate Tectonic Earth Map: Map:USGSDescription:Scott Nash, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tectonic Plate Boundaries Diagram: Jose F. Vigil. USGS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tectonic Activity Map: denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/dtam/
Hot Spots Diagram: Joel E. Robinson, USGS., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
00:00 Intro
01:07 Landmasses or Plate Tectonics
01:52 Pt1 Rough Map
03:59 Drawing Rough Map
09:43 Pt2 Plate Boundaties
15:06 Drawing Plate Boundaries
22:01 Pt3 Expanding the Map
24:06 Drawing More Features
26:00 Pt4 Hot Spots
29:00 Drawing Hot Spots
30:14 Final Look
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24 июл 2024

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@wraithwrecker_ 10 месяцев назад

Here from Artifexian. Looking forward to binging this series!!!! Edit: Okay this shit fucking rules.

@madelinejameswrites 10 месяцев назад

☺️ thank you!

@simonsvensson5037 Год назад

As a very nerdy worldbuilder, finding these has been very interesting! I knew a lot, but having it all in condensed places (like your written articles) and these videos are really excellent and easy-access reference materials. It was a long time since I did extensive world simulation (Since I often see it more as simulating what kind of world it would become, than creating it per se..) but now I have gotten started again, and this has been a staple source of refreshing my memory and adding new things. :)

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Thank you! Condensing all my research into one place has been really helpful for my worldbuilding process and I'm glad you're enjoying it too!

@StoryGirl83 Год назад

Thank you so much. I have been trying to find someone who goes in depth on plate tectonics for making my own story world map, so this is super useful.

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Thank you! I definitely also recommend Artifaxens channel!

@StoryGirl83 Год назад

@@madelinejameswrites Artifaxian is the reason I want more on plate tectonics. He shows how useful they are, but I wanted more on how they work than he provided. Definitely a great resource.

@jzziloho 6 месяцев назад

I love how much passion is behind this. I am going to binge this.

@emilyrln Год назад

This is exactly the level of detail I crave 😂 Plus those hot spots are perfect for my magic system, which along other things uses energy from heat and motion to power spells and magical workings! Continents/island nations with more of them have am advantage in terms of access to power.

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Oh that's really cool! The hot spots are pretty easy to throw in there where you need them, so that's convenient too! Your magic system sounds really cool - I love when worldbuilding affects magic systems 😍

@AphroditeLee 8 месяцев назад

This was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing... can't wait to try this method of map making!

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Watch the next part, Glaciation and Physiographic Regions, here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gxwzxu2_Wmw.html

@lovfro 6 месяцев назад

To get the landmass size in the 20-50% range, may I suggest using A4 for the initial Super Continent, and then A3 paper for the world map? That will automatically make the continent within the desired range.

@madelinejameswrites 6 месяцев назад

That's a great idea!

@daynake4623 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for this!

@EmmaBennetAuthor Год назад

I love your detail.x

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Thank you!!!

@SifuMarcusMartins Год назад

Great Video

@LuvLikeTruck Месяц назад

A few years ago i started creating a series of rules to simulate plate tectonics on a Dymaxion projection using DnD dice to randomize it. I'm excited to follow along your process and see if i can adapt your rules into mine.

@madelinejameswrites Месяц назад

That sounds like a lot of fun! Hope this guide can help in some way!

@Daniel_Kani 24 дня назад

very interesting video, and aweseome to see that there are multiple parts! I have a map I've been working on for 10 years that I've always wanted to give the "realistic" treatment at least when it comes to climate. I have my landmasses and mountains etc already, but I want the deserts, warm regions etc to make sense! Maybe it won't totally make sense when you look at plate-tectonics etc, but in the end, it's made up anyways :) Cheers and thanks for making an awesome series of videos! Edit: Man will it ever be complicated to add all of this to an existing map xD ouch.

@madelinejameswrites 24 дня назад

Thank you! And yes, I've retrofitted a number of maps to this system and it can definitely be tricky! If you can get the plate boundaries working for your various landforms you will be golden! If you want a quick tip, only worry about the boundaries on land since you already have your land masses and mountains and all that. Don't worry about making the entire globe work unless you want to. I think in the mapping section I list what features you'll have in different places. If you care about earthquakes, knowing where your transform boundaries are will help, otherwise you don't really need those. So you can add oceanic-continental convergent boundaries where you have mountains along coasts, continental-continental convergent boundaries where mountains are not at coasts, and divergent where you have land splitting apart. If you aren't wanting to change your landmasses, this is sufficient. And honestly, if you don't care about rocks/minerals/volcanos and don't want to tweak landmasses, you can probably skip this step entirely.

@Daniel_Kani 24 дня назад

@@madelinejameswrites Thanks for a great and detailed reply! :D It would be fun to see you comment on people's maps in a video some time. Like a kinda "tips and tricks" type of video. Cheers!

@daniel_rossy_explica 9 месяцев назад

Came here from Artifexian. The "island method", while fun and creative, falls into the exact trap he mentions about polar distotion. I can do the same in Photoshop and it would produce the same result. You can only work with distotions if you do it in 3D. I subscribed anyway, tbh.

@madelinejameswrites 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, it absolutely does. It's something I've been thinking about lately actually because I just started working on a new world for my next project. I tried to adjust the landmasses to account for distortion myself once I knew where I wanted them, but it definitely wasn't precise. I'm hoping to find a way to do it that doesn't involve using too much software, because I like doing it all by hand if I can. Or maybe this is one step that really needs to be done on a 3D globe in software and then exported...

@zee_space_wolfy 7 месяцев назад

@@madelinejameswrites might be expensive, but the one method I can imagine is having one big metal ball (not too big of course), and using little magnets to pin the island fragments and continents to the ball, which would function as your table. This accounts for everything distortion-wise (because there would be none as you're using a sphere already). The trick is getting the paper equivalent for the sphere, that you can draw on. This might involve more arts and crafts where you create these paper shells for your metal sphere, or if you can find spherical paper shells, get a metal ball that fits their size. Personally I'd just use software because I like doing everything digitally already, but I can deeply appreciate it being done traditionally, and I think it would be cool.

@zee_space_wolfy 7 месяцев назад

@madelinejameswrites 7 месяцев назад

@@zee_space_wolfy that is a really interesting idea... It would definitely be fun having a physical globe like that too. It would be easy to move plates around too for figuring out the paths of your plate movements. I'm going to need to figure out something similar to this to try out.... Thank you for the idea!

@perrywmoore9346 Год назад

Nice video. This is the kind of depth that I need in my role-playing worlds. Thank you!

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Thank you and I'm glad you like it! It's definitely a lot more than most people need, but I love how it all comes together when you go this deep

@aname4700 Год назад

I think you make really good content, I wish more people knew your channel! ❤️ Idk if you're into tiktok or not, but I'm sure uploading clips or abridged versions of your videos there, and telling people they can find the full deep-dive versions on your RU-vid channel, would bring a lot of people here! (I say this because it's waaay easier to get your content to new people on tiktok than on RU-vid) Anyway no matter what I'm sure your channel will keep growing! 🌟

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Thank you! I'd love to figure out how to post clips on TikTok, I need to put some time into figuring out how to do it, it's so different from making RU-vid videos 😵‍💫

@DigitalEcho33 27 дней назад

whats the name of the music you used when you were drawing the map outline

@madelinejameswrites 27 дней назад

I believe that is As History Unfolds - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen. I get all the music from Epidemic Sound.

@rodneylopez5073 Год назад

Wow, I was not expecting this level of detail. That is truly astounding. I will be creating my version this weekend! I can't wait to see what comes next! I'm really interested in how rivers, lakes, and other such bodies of water are developed in this methodology. The interesting part of all this is that you can use some of this to develop cultural histories for the peoples of this newly created world, like all the flood myths spread throughout the cultures of Earth. Will you be talking about that in this guide as well? (Granted that is tangential to the actual worldbuilding, but could be an interesting video topic.) Although, I'm thinking this level of work would warrant a more centralized work for this world. Like this is the world where an EPIC fantasy would take place. Or do you think creating worlds like this would be feasible for single standalone books?

@rodneylopez5073 Год назад

And I just found my island!

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

Yes!! So once we have the full map, I'll definitely have a whole video or two on water and watersheds both at the global and regional level. I want to talk alot about how the world impacts culture and society. Like if you look at the civilizations that sprang up around stable vs unstable rivers with flooding you see huge correlations between the nature of the gods they worship. I think it's fascinating.

@madelinejameswrites Год назад

And this guide will work for epic or more condense stories. It's all about what you spend time on. Like if you know the story is in one area you can really avoid spending a lot of time on other areas, but it all still plays a part! Especially when we get later into the series you can pick and choose a lot

@amraam8723 7 месяцев назад

I just have a question, the small islands as result of hotspots, aren't they supposed to get smaller the more away they are in direction of which the plate is moving? Since the most recent spot would be the furthest away in opposit direcrion of which the plate is moving, recent formed islands by hotspots are most likely to be bigger.

@madelinejameswrites 7 месяцев назад

So if the plate is moving due East, there would be a trail of hotspots from the location of the hotspot trailing towards the East. And the largest ones would be the most recent ones like you said, so the Western most ones. Does that make sense?

@amraam8723 7 месяцев назад

@@madelinejameswrites thats correct, really this is stuff that is easier to explain by drawing or an animation than with words haha.