I like the map, but.....
The colors are too similar, it's hard to see the buildings.
I like the map, but.....
The colors are too similar, it's hard to see the buildings.
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Absolutely. I need to make the green greener and the mud darker I think even if that would make it less realistic. Its a problem that thatch is a dark gray brown and so is the mud. I guess this is where artistic license will have to take precedence over realism.Originally Posted by NeonKnight
I thought about tiled roofs but were in fen land and theres gonna be oodles of reeds. Probably no real shortage of clay either but there would be a significant amount of thatch still I would imagine so I have to find some sort of bodge up.
Do you (or anyone else) have any suggestions ?
Just giving them an outer glow or drop shadow might be enough to set them of. Cliché, I know, but it would separate them from the ground.
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Perhaps the townspeople make an unsophisticated pavement by mixing stones with a dense gray clay so they can move about without getting their boots sucked off by the mud.
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The clay around here is grey
In my neck of the woods, the topsoil is black-black, but the clay beneath is kind of a medium grey. So if you went grey with your mud, it would still be realistic, yet your brown thatched buildings should stand out against grey mud.
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Perhaps make the thatch a tad yellower?
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I'll try them all; Thatch yellower, grass greener, mud darker and gray. The drop shadow is harder but theres a good chance I can automate that and the pavement is also hard. To do that properly would need hand modeling but I think I might be able to automate a little of that effect around the edge of the mud. I did cobble the town square. Maybe I could try to cobble more of the mud areas where the mud would be deepest.
I have to say at this scale, the thatch is essentially indistinguishable from noise. The thatch method works really well for larger images, but less well for smaller scales. It may be less realistic, but perhaps a coarser thatch would look better on these smaller scales.
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Ok I think thats a lot better. More / Less / Comments etc ?
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