*** June Challenge - Build Something for the CWBP ***

[Redrobes]

No Church in that list of options then... Dang - better find another map then.

...where's the Google maps?

Try here: http://maps.me-dem.org/InsCarto/default.htm

Helium3 mapping Hardy Island would be great. That swamp is infested with Lizard Men who attack everyone in the swamp area. Death Chaser Fen is a real killing zone - a suicidal place to go. Theres a band of maybe 40 or so high level warriors like Vikings officially called "The Hard Ones" but more colloquially known as "The Hard Bast***ds" with a leader named Crazy Krull. The whole group are totally awesome Lizard Men killing machines that go completely berserk and pathologically violent in battle. Krull has a Lizard man headress and likes to taunt them before wading in. Nobody knows where they live but they meet merchants at Hardy Point or Hawker Point and escort them across the water for a large fee using several long ship ferries cutting out the long way around - right the way around via New Mere Fort to Mullion and northwards. Its assumed that they live on Hardy Island but nobody knows or goes there to find out.

I have a write up about Krull which I had better get around to uploading. My machine has been down but its up and limping now. I was due to give a demo of the VTT with a whole list of things to cover. I'll make sure I add a flyover of the island & Fort Mere.

Fort Mere is the old fort now in ruin. It used to protect the road running from Morton to Mullion but the water appears to be slowly rising in the swampland and the road got worse and worse until it was barely passable. This made it open to attack and people were being hit hard every time they went across it. The troops pulled back and let the Fort go defending it further south and building a new road just past Little Mere Fen which is also pretty dangerous but not as bad as before. Old Mere Fort and the whole area around that is pretty much a no go zone unless your up to a lot of chopping. It might have been taken over by Lizard Men by now... thats all very open ended.

Although Lizard men predominate, you could have any other marsh dwellers in there also. Maybe even a green dragon. Theres probably one in there somewhere.

I'll be doing the usual WIP thumbnail page. I have the script still - it survived the resurrection. If you could put...

### Latest WIP ###

at the end of your post for each time you want to make the next image attachment the thumb then it helps a lot.

I'll add the entrants as usual below :-

### New Challenge Entry:Midgardsormr,2178
### New Challenge Entry:Talroth,2184
### New Challenge Entry:rlucci,2186
### New Challenge Entry:ravells,2187
### New Challenge Entry:Sigurd,2190
### New Challenge Entry:meleeguy,2198
### New Challenge Entry:NeonKnight,2199
### New Challenge Entry:Torq,2215
### New Challenge Entry:Redrobes,2282
### New Challenge Entry:Gamerprinter,2294

[Torq]

You're a peach Redrobes. Keep up the great work!

Torq

[töff]

Is there a tute on sticking an image into that Gmap interface?

[ravells]

Toff! Stop asking questions and pick a location to map already!

[SeerBlue]

Toff, I have a tutorial inwork for putting the maps into gmaps, but it is Global Mapper orientated, as that is what I use to tile the imagery. If you just want a quick way to put a map into google maps, GMapUploader is dead easy, upload your image (16384x16384 pixels Max) and the site will process it and then give you a link to your new map. Connection speed needs to be pretty good for real large images. The link on the bottom of your map page will show a full screen image.
The page is pretty basic,
but you can get a google page and tweak the html to get something like this

If you view source on the misty mts page you can see that all that is really necessary to get a gmap into google pages is a key for the page and the js, which I copied from the js/html of the page made by gmap uploader and pasted into the google page while in html edit mode.
SeerBlue

[meleeguy]

I'd like to try my hand at a slighted castle, done partially in 3d and partially in photoshop (as my May entry was) - any suggestions?

[Talroth]

I think I might claim Irontown in the The Beastlands, if no one else has already. Still reading up on the region, but I'm somewhat picturing a mostly lightly fortified large town/small city, with several secured districts, and open to the river. Maybe even a few smaller rivers reworked into canals to move logs and ore into the smelter/smithing halls.

[töff]

Toff! Stop asking questions and pick a location to map already!

I know. I gotta get my magazine out; behind schedule as usual. If I have any time left in the month ... meh ... I really want to get in on one of these contests!

[mathuwm]

was there a link to the wiki?

did i miss it