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    Map May Entry: Mud Golem Cave

    Watch out! if your players have new boots... the ground is still wet...

    In order to get myself in a map making mindset, I told myself that even though I am new here I should enter the may contest... so today I made this simple cave map mostly trying to get as much texture as I could and still stay in the file size.

    The overall shape is the Photoshop plug-in "clouds"... thresholded brought it down to a black and white matte then it was given some extra definition by hand.

    Then I drew in the "mud" on two layers that had some bevel & emboss applied to it with a brush on a low opacity, and after some hue & saturation it was on to compression... anyway.

    I gave it a spin in the RPGTonight VTT and it worked... but I was not playing an adventure so I guess in the end you all will be the judge.


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    Very nice caves...
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    Impressive! And a very effective use of the clouds filter. It's quite a workhorse for cartography.
    Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
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    Very nice! Plenty of ways to get ambushed when you're leaving tracks in the mud

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    Wow! I like it! Thanks for the inspiration...

    Neurowiz/Chgowiz

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