Very nice! Lovely results Rob. As a matter of interest, why did you increase the selection by 6 and decrease by 5 rather than just increasing by 1?
Very nice! Lovely results Rob. As a matter of interest, why did you increase the selection by 6 and decrease by 5 rather than just increasing by 1?
To get rid of the stuff in the middle of the cells (mountian symbold, plains symbols, etc)
-Rob A>
Very cool! I love what you did with the map, I hadn't ever thought about anything like that. Sort of reminds me of HeroScape.
Welcome Hawke! Hawke is from the MapTool forums and the creator of that hex map in case anyone is wondering.
You play HeroScape? HeroScape is big fun. I own pretty much everything for it. Although this latest Wave has been difficult to find.
I didn't like the way that turned out, so like a dog with a bone I kept at it.
Here is what I did finally-
Took the crude grayscale heightfield I made from the map-
selected everything but the sea level and blurred the heck out of it. Added a low detail rendered cloud layer over that to add a little variation to each of the tiles on the same level-
Then I sucked that into Inkscape, and used the Tiled Clones feature with trace colour turned on (starting with a suitably distorted hex that lined up with the map...which was an exercise in trial and error to get the original hex scaled right). I also overlayed a smallblack blurry outline to the cloned hexes that I hoped would make a bevel when rendered. I exported this out of Inkscape at a very high resolution (>5000px horizontal) so the height filed would be smooth.
Final Map:
-Rob A>
Last edited by RobA; 04-27-2010 at 02:54 PM.
What an interesting experiment. The final, pre-painted b&w image was especially provocative--mainly due to the light & shadow suggestions. These, however, were all but lost in the next versions. I'd be interested in seeing you use that earlier image as an overlay on the final map, so the lower hexes were darker and such. Is that possible?
Don
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C'mon Don - everything is possible, just depends on the time a person wants to spend doing it!
I think this is what you wanted to see... I should have masked out the dark grey areas, but forgot to, so they ended up really black.
The whole thing could probably use a gamma adjustment, too...
-Rob A>