They're blue with pink polka dots and you're the only one who can see them.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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Not to worry, man; some things just take way too much effort and, in the end, still look like junk. If you want to scrap that other one then fine by me; doesn't bother me at all. You learned some things and that's what's important.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Thanks I certainly learned some things. And there's no way I'm going to scrap the other version (not after a couple dozen hours working on roof textures.. )
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Managed to get some work done on this in between chasing shadow issues and light points on my challenge entry Not much of an update but I color keyed the important buildings and I'm also thinking of adding a grid but can't decide between square (which I know how to make) and hex (which I don't) What do you all think?
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If you're going to use the grid as an X/Y marker (e.g. the Palace is at G4), then I'd go for a square grid. Thanks to Isomage you don't need to make a hex grid, his clever little application available online Link Here does it for you! But you will need something that can read SVG files like inkscape (which I see you have). I remember further up in this post you mentioned the problems lining up your text labels. Did you do the labels in inkscape? If you had it would have taken seconds to line them up. It's always worth considering doing your labelling in vector.
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I've found that you almost never want to use fully saturated colours (ie your ocean blue looks like R0,G0,B255). Using more faded colours almost always is more pleasing to the eye, and even just plain easier to look at!
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