Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12
Results 11 to 13 of 13

Thread: My first serious, non-tutorial map

  1. #11
    Guild Expert Facebook Connected Meshon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    Posts
    1,167

    Default

    So I really like the shadows you've put on your stairs... did you draw those by hand or use some genius technique to create them? And thank you for sharing this, it's a great battlemap!

    cheers,
    Meshon

  2. #12
    Guild Apprentice
    Join Date
    Mar 2014
    Location
    South Australia
    Posts
    25

    Default

    I drew them myself. This is how I did it

    1. I made the shadows on the upper and lower floors
    2. I made a grid the width of each step, with a height of (pixels between upper and lower shadows) / (number of steps)
    3. I used the path tool with polygonal and snap to grid enabled to save a path of what I wanted removed/added
    4. I used the path flipped or rotated to cut or add shadows to the steps

    Here is a screen grab of the steps with the grid on and the path selected:

    stairs.PNG

    This one I used to cut the lower shadow off the stairs, I then flipped it, offset it slightly and filled it with the black of the shadows.

    I did the same thing on the vertical stairs, but I also added a 2nd path for the individual steps

    smallstep.PNG

    I am also part way through writing a script that adds the shadows using motion blur instead of using "drop shadows" its not quite ready yet though as I cant get it to blur correctly.

    Standard drop shadow is on the left, my script creates the shadow on the right(with options for distance, opacity, blur etc).

    shadow-compare.PNG

  3. #13
    Guild Journeyer jkat718's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2014
    Location
    Brooklyn, NY USA
    Posts
    134

    Default

    I don't see anything you should change, but I'm relatively new to this; MCC might catch something that I didn't think of.

Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •