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I need to rotate the circular building a touch to get rid of the tangents going on with its roof work.
Things left to do:
1. Other buildings
2. foliage, a good swap has some trees in it
3. visual interest (I have some nice ideas for that)
3a. Backstory to accompany the kicking visual interest
4. win?
5. yes, win.
6. good, because I would really like to win
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Last edited by mmmmmpig; 10-13-2008 at 03:02 PM.
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I have to say that I really like where you are going with this map. The semi random scrap boards thrown together is a cool concept. Might be even better if you could have some boards of different textures in addition, but not sure how easy that would be to pull off.
The only thing throwing me off so far is still the water color on the left with the white haze effect. Perhaps it's just me, but that just looks odd to my eyes for what i would think would be a fetid swamp town type thing.
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There is something a bit off with the water, I completely agree, but I am not sure that it has to do with the white-ish, haze like effect that you and others have mentioned. The whitish haze is actually the color of the swamp water in daylight conditions.
The pattern fill that I am using for the swamp water is this one, which has a rather predominant white undertone to it. Opaque brackish water reflects most of its light. I think what will be necessary to make the water look "correct" is to add trees and visual interest stuff and, more importantly, their shadows.
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I wold like to point out that my last post seemed to come off waaaaay more defensive and sarcastic than I actually feel, so please keep that in mind when reading it.
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No worries mate. It's just not a texture I particularly like. It IS your map though, so keep what you like. I know not everyone likes my mapping style, and I am perfectly content with this...Originally Posted by mmmmmpig
I wold like to point out that my last post seemed to come off waaaaay more defensive and sarcastic than I actually feel, so please keep that in mind when reading it.
Also, as you say, perhaps later with more visual interest stuff, that white haze part of the water will kind of "fade" into background. I was not going to say this originally, but what the hell... I think it would be good if you had a different water texture and went for a nighttime view with some lanterns hung outside to make it a bit more spooky (it is October...) looking. Not sure how hard it would be to pull it off or if you want to take the time or effort, but I was thinking "how neat would this look at night time" just last night when I read the thread.
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It looks light, too, because of the reflection of the sky. Did you take the picture with a polarizing filter? If not, that would help (in the future, of course)....
Or just darken it up...
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It looks light, too, because of the reflection of the sky. Did you take the picture with a polarizing filter? If not, that would help (in the future, of course)....
Or just darken it up...
-Rob A>
Oh yea.. now that looks nice and evil....
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Thanks RobA!
So here we go now with the latest and greatest
better, worse? same?
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Better, need to have it cover the 4 pools in the NE too though
Much better... though you probably need to replicate the effect to the water in the NE corner to make the whole thing spot on IMO.
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