Well, did another island. I don't need them for my fantasy world, but it's good practice I guess. If I throw down some palm trees I can use it for a pirate setting
I still love CD3, I can create a map like this in under half an hour...
Well, did another island. I don't need them for my fantasy world, but it's good practice I guess. If I throw down some palm trees I can use it for a pirate setting
I still love CD3, I can create a map like this in under half an hour...
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Even for jus tplaying around you are so good with CD3. You should start writing some tutorials for it
Tutorials... hmm. I really don't feel secure enough to do those yet. I am sure I am still doing lots of stuff wrong. Is there anything you would like to reproduce in particular?Originally Posted by JoeyD473
Anyway, I am working on Fierhout. This is a small city located on the shores of a lake (and some islands). It's not a very prosperous city, so no city walls this time. But there is a castle.
Trying out some of the island techniques from the last two maps.
Last edited by Gandwarf; 12-27-2008 at 09:48 AM.
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That cluster of buildings on that island...the radiating out from a center is very evocative and very nice.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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I love the way you do islands. You make it look so easy. And ditto on the radiating buildings layout.
Well, the islands are really easy. It's just a matter of drawing a polygon (so say 10 clicks an island). After that I turn on the custom effects I have been experimenting with (another click) and presto! That's the beauty of CD3. Once you get the hang of it you can map really fast.
Anyway, I am doing a lot of writing at the moment, so mapping is taking a hit for now. I will finish above map sometime in 2009 however
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Oh, I did redo the town of Noordhaven this weekend. First attachment is the old map, the second is the new map. Still not happy with it, so I sense a third (fourth? fifth?) version coming.
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The mapper in me won from the writer. Finished Fierhout, took about 2.5 hours total.
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Fierhout (Proudwood) is a small town located on the shores of a lake. As it name suggests the town was once founded near one of the largest forested areas in the Valley. After hundreds of years of cutting and mismanagement the forests disappeared.
Nowadays it is a pretty poor town. There's some farming going on along the fertile shores of the river and in the nearby mountains there are a few iron mines. Fierhout doesn't get a lot of traffic or trade. Still, the town did grow over the centuries. Some stone causeways were built along the islands and people settled there.
Fierhout has always belonged to the wizards of Concetron. It has now sworn allegiance to the Alliance.
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Also, I finally figured out how to render my maps in huge dimensions (I saw Midgardsormr give some pointers to eoinmorgan). So I have put in hundreds of hours mapping and now I find out. It's really funny, as long as the map doesn't crash that is. Also rendering can be a bit slow, lol.
Version below is much bigger, although CC3 messed up some of my fields and walls *sniff*
Last edited by Gandwarf; 12-29-2008 at 08:23 PM.
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Though both are good, I prefer the latter because of the inclusion of terrain outside the settlement rather than the generic grey background.
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