The Southlands - 3d map.

[ravells]

This was an unpaid commission I took from the map requests forum. I was fooling around with photoshop CS4 extended's new big toy; being able to paint directly onto 3d meshes. I was amazed how stable photoshop was - I think I had one crash throughout the whole process. This was a learning exercise so I used the map commission as a guinea pig to try out the 3d work and I was really pleased with the result. There's quite a bit I'd probably do differently now I've gone through it once, but that will have to wait for the next map.

Cheers

Ravs

[Steel General]

Neat stuff here Ravs - can't rep you at the moment.

It does seem a bit pixellated when zoomed in to full rez, but that may just be me.

[ravells]

Cheers SG, it is pixellated zoomed in, the super duper size render would have taken too long to do and I wasn't sure whether the person who commissioned this map might want a different angle.

[Djekspek]

that's pretty cool Ravs! it seems i need to invest in that upgrade to CS4 after all

[ravells]

Needs to be the extended version too...

[moutarde]

Nice! That turned out really well

[arsheesh]

Very cool. Beautiful job Ravells.

Cheers,

-Arsheesh

[torstan]

Really excellent work. Always great to see a new method being worked out over here.

[ravells]

Shifty wanted a couple of minor adjustments and the correction of a typo (my bad)...this is it, in hopefully the final final form without pixellation etc on zoom.

[ravells]

Gahh! The town at the point of the cape is now in the sea...Gah! Shifty which way is north?....better put a scale in it too. I wonder if I can repair the position of that town in PS rather than having to render it again and take it into PS.

Phew...previous image updated.