August Entry: the Under Halls

[RPMiller]

Look at it this way, you're a pro now. LOL

[Gamerprinter]

Next objects include a stone sarcophagus, an open sarcophagus, one that is occupied, and the dead occupant alone. Also created a table where some adventurers were planning it out (notice the Lair of Lhessadrak is the map!)

GP

[Gamerprinter]

Here's a 200 ppi PNG for the printed version of the Adventurer's Table object.

Note to RobA - I simply rescaled the object to 4 times its size, then exported PNG at 200 ppi. The fill graphics simply upscaled without loss of quality, prior to export.)

GP

[RPMiller]

Next objects include a stone sarcophagus, an open sarcophagus, one that is occupied, and the dead occupant alone. Also created a table where some adventurers were planning it out (notice the Lair of Lhessadrak is the map!)

GP

Hehehe, you are going to hate me... so can you provide just the lid of the sarcophagi as a separate graphic, and have the center of the graphic be the bottom (thin section) of the lid? That way when the adventurers open it I can just swing it open.

Here's a 200 ppi PNG for the printed version of the Adventurer's Table object.

Note to RobA - I simply rescaled the object to 4 times its size, then exported PNG at 200 ppi. The fill graphics simply upscaled without loss of quality, prior to export.)

GP

Oh! That just rocks on toast! I love that it kept the detail. At 200 ppi the players could zoom in on the parchment and see that detail as well. That's a thing of beauty. Two requests:

1. Can you provide a tutorial on how you curled the edge of the map?
2. Can you provide the parchment as is but without the map on it?

[Gamerprinter]

Yes, RP, I can certainly do that - you want to spin the sarcophagus door open... meh!

Regarding the page curl on the map - this is really cheating, I used a Photoshop Plugin, built inside Xara Xtreme, AV Bros. Page Curl 2.0 for Xara. Just apply the Plugin button, select available plugins, a menu shows up to allow you to place your image topside or bottom side, you determine if curl is up or down and what actually curls.

I created a drop shadow to enhance the effect.

Not that this couldn't be handled by hand - I used the plugin for quick but cool effect.

Regarding the parchment - do you want this mapless parchment with or without the page curl, or are you looking for a cool parchment background for any maps?? I can do either or both.

GP

[Gamerprinter]

First of all, not knowing size and resolution, I copied the parchment of my Lair of Lhessadrak map without the map, exported to JPG format at 100 ppi, but scaled in pixels at 4995 x 3981, 1.34 MB (hopefully that's enough for you, RP.)

Also created the rotateable sarcophagus lid - now that I'm a pro at it!

GP

PS: not sure what happened to the parchment, you can crop it, or I can, later on...