Pretty nice... I have to say that my initial thought was that those were cliffs from an ISO view point until I looked closely at the city layout and read your post.
This is based off of the map at the front of the book, "Toll The Hounds" - with my own mapping "style" applied to it.
For those not familiar with the series, the city and some of the outlying countryside is engulfed in magical darkness - thus the cloud area over the city itself. The great barrow is a tomb/shrine of a special soldier, it was originally made from various armor/weapons, coins, etc. but since has continued to grow as more and more items are piled onto it.
Pretty happy with the overall piece though I'm not entirely happy with the water, and I may redo the hills/mountains.
Feel free to make comments, suggestions, etc.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Pretty nice... I have to say that my initial thought was that those were cliffs from an ISO view point until I looked closely at the city layout and read your post.
My Finished Maps
Works in Progress(or abandoned tests)
My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
----------------------------------------------------------
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
I thought it was iso too, but it's nice anyway
Thanks... Since you both thought the same thing, I think I definitely need to redo the hills/mountains.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
I have to say that I thought the same thing. On the plus side though, if they were ISO cliffs, then they would be great!
OK, redid the hills/mountains, changed the font and added a few more labels.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
I think it's the orientation of the texture. If you rotate it 90 degrees it'll be good.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
I don't know.. might be the shadowing.
What technique have you been using?
Same thing I always use, stacked layers with different textures, with blurring to help blend the different layers - I try to keep the shadowing to a minimum.
Here's another version where I tweaked the textures a bit.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.