Thanks for the welcome. And yes. Learning PS is daunting at the least. ;)
I updated the map just a little bit. I tried to make a dominant feature just a wee bit more prominent. And i redone the temple in the middle of the city. The original was copied from the map i mentioned. But i wanted it to have the same look/style as the city walls. I'm going to do the same with the ships and populate the docks a little bit more.
hehe your running into the same problem I had... have... I don't know the proper terms, I'm sure many will give you the right terms when they notice, but your mixing isometric elements with overview elements, both of which are two different styles, that in my opinion seem to clash. What I ended up doing was making it all isometric, so yeah... just my two cents...
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@yandor:
you're right. they do clash. and i'm not sure if i keep the cliff that way. i just have no idea how to make the cliff stand out in a non-isometric view.
but thanks to photoshop it's easy to undo the 3D-cliff by hiding the layers it's on. so no harm is done.
but now i'm coming close to the task of populating the city with buildings... and frankly... i'm a little bit intimidated by it.
This thread:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=723
Has a tileable texture you can bring in, scaled appropriately to "fill in" areas (using a layer mask) of your city. It is a quick way to get a look happening - just apply a bevel/outer glow or some other layer effect to it to fit the map style.
There was another thread with a different fill, but I can't find it now...
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Here's one I did a while ago (it's a .psd).
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...?t=1019&page=3
That's the one I was looking for!
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Ah cool, that one is much better, I've copied across to the land/sea seamless fill sticky.
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