Congratulations, it turned out very well. Has a stately feeling to it.
Good job
Sigurd
So here is the finished main city. I was going to do up a version with a key but once I got to 75 in numbers for locations my map was becoming obscured and I still had another 50 to go, so if you use it then you can key it however you pleaseI had to bump the quality down from 12 to 11 to make the file size so I don't know how much it will be affected.
Congratulations, it turned out very well. Has a stately feeling to it.
Good job
Sigurd
Looks really cool.
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Very nice, can't wait to see the other maps that go with it.
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Beautiful work Ascension. Dark and rich palette gives it a very polished and classical feel.
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Hey great job Ascension!
I was wondering - did you emboss the fill on the buildings to make the roofs or did you create them in something besides photoshop/gimp?
Also, your textures are killer! Where'd you get them from?
Very nice. I like the wild look of the hills around the edges. Town is neat but a bit prettier than most viking settlements are depicted commonly.
I totally agree with the pretty and uber-civilized thing, when I first started the map it was nothing but huts and since that doesn't really lend itself to anything very striking from a visual point I started decorating instead of designing. Once I started throwing in bells and whistles I couldn't stop and my Nordic fjord evolved into something more like a Mediterranean bay. I even spent 4 nights researching medieval occupations (I have a super huge list now) so that I could put in as many different things as possible and once each occupation had it's own building I had forgot to put in housing so I went back and ripped out a bunch of stuff...live and learn. Guess I need to get myself a copy of the DM guide so it can tell me exactly how many cobblers and weavers that a city of X size needs instead of just using my experience with city-building games and my intuition.
Redstar, the buildings are all just various layer styles: pattern overlays, color overlays, bevel/emboss, etc. I'll be posting these styles for all of the Photoshop users to use, probably later tonight once I get em all labeled correctly, as well as the brushes I've created for the buildings and stuff. That's what I was doing last night instead of mapping. These will be over in the mapping elements subforum.