Old Man Danvers' Farm (Hi, I'm new here!)

[jdf]

Like many folks, I'm working up a 4th Edition game world. I've been working with Campaign Cartographer 3-- I'm sure you could tell.

Anyhow, the hook is that when Old Man Danvers finally decided to clear out that ridiculously sized boulder on his farm, he found... stairs.

I'm still learning CC3-- this is basically the second map I've done. I need to do some work to make the fields look like, well, fields instead of a large green blob of blob-- it might be smarter to pick up GIMP for that part instead of continue to search around in CC3. (That said, given what I've found so far, it seems if I dig far enough I can get CC3 to make breakfast for me...)

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Detail on the farmhouse:

[Ascension]

I laughed at that blob of blob part 'cuz I remember those days well. I guffawed at the breakfast comment and I spit soda all over myself when I got to "embiggen"...too funny. Keep at it but don't feel pressured, you have a good foundation and that's what matters. At first, I thought old man danvers had planted people head down in his field until I zoomed in and saw they were horses, silly me, but now I wanna do something spooky like the movie Motel Hell. Keep up the good work.

[NeonKnight]

Your map has sooooooo much promise. Do not give up so easily on CC3. It can do so much if you just play with it, tinker with it, experiment with it.

If you would be willing to email me the map at neonknight@telus.net I will show you what can be done with your map with only a few flourishes.

[jdf]

Your map has sooooooo much promise. Do not give up so easily on CC3. It can do so much if you just play with it, tinker with it, experiment with it.

If you would be willing to email me the map at neonknight@telus.net I will show you what can be done with your map with only a few flourishes.

Thanks! I'm not planning on giving up on CC3-- I wouldn't have a map without it. I do wonder, though, if some of the post-processing effects wouldn't be easier in some other tools. Most likely because I haven't found what I'm looking for yet. There's an insane amount of power here, and so far, it's been flexible enough that I haven't thought of anything I want to do that it can't handle.

I did find exactly the tool I _should_ have used to create the great green blobs-- I used a "contour" tool (which, obviously was not the right tool for the job) because I hadn't found the "Outside, grass" tool under the Dungeon CC3 styles. Now I gotta figure out how to select just that layer and change its style, which will be a project for this evening.

I will take you up on that offer, but I'm going to sort out a few things first. I have some ideas of what I want to do and what I want it to look like but when all's said and done, it's still going to look like a n00b's map because that's what I am. Once I've got it where I want it to go, I'd like to see what a veteran does with it so I can tell where the differences are between what I do and what other folks do. This way, not only does the map improve, but in theory, so do I.

[NeonKnight]

OK, sounds good. Because CC3's new sheet effects are quite powerful that one really does not need to do any out of program work (though I have seen people do so and make nice maps).

As an example see the attached city map I am almost finished doing (is one every really finished with a map?) The first shows the map without the sheet effects, the second shows the map with the sheet effects on.

[waldronate]

Did ProFantasy ever get the antialiasing filter for image exports done? It would be nice not to have to export at high resolution and then filter the image down to get rid of the jagged edges. Sure, it's just blur 0.7 pixel radius, resize, then unsharp mask 0.7 radius. But it's the principal of the thing, making me work harder than I think I ought to have to...

[jdf]

I laughed at that blob of blob part 'cuz I remember those days well. I guffawed at the breakfast comment and I spit soda all over myself when I got to "embiggen"...too funny. Keep at it but don't feel pressured, you have a good foundation and that's what matters. At first, I thought old man danvers had planted people head down in his field until I zoomed in and saw they were horses, silly me, but now I wanna do something spooky like the movie Motel Hell. Keep up the good work.

Heh. I was actually a little worried about that-- I stuck mostly with the cc/dd3 style symbols, which are a very different style from the older cc2/dd2 symbols, but I didn't find a horse in the cc3 stuff, so I decided the older one was close enough.

Of course, what I was worried about was that they wouldn't fit in, not that they wouldn't look like horses. From my perspective, they were obviously horses; that's what they were labeled in the symbol set! On the other hand, that's exactly why I posted it here...