Sirilion (City Designer 3)

[Gandwarf]

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UPDATED: removed this version of the map.
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In this verion of Sirilion I did some cleaning up. Start in the northwest corner and then move east. You'll hit a border and you will see what I mean.

I wanted to redo the whole map like this but it just got to frustrating. There's probably even more glitches in this map, as I quit redoing it when only at about 20% finished.

This map made me scared to do more city maps of this size. And I still need to map the three other great cities of Iffraon, Velakron and Miston. Ack!

Some day...

[craggles]

This is truly amazing! I have a feeling a group of players may very well be traversing these streets shortly.

Thanks! I'm really glad you've shared this with us.

[dmorand]

Bravo Sir. Do you have any tutorials you've made for CD3? If you do please share, I am still new and trying to learn the program.

[Steel General]

There is a maximum pixel limit to uploaded files (33 million or so I think), I've run into it a few times myself.

[Ascension]

I can now create insanely large maps. Phear my power! MUHAHAHAHA

Fun isn't it?

[Midgardsormr]

Awesome! Now that you don't have to struggle with that, I imagine we're going to be just swimming in CD3 maps, eh?

[Gandwarf]

Awesome! Now that you don't have to struggle with that, I imagine we're going to be just swimming in CD3 maps, eh?

Ha! You read my mind. First stop Westdiep. I am rendering the map right now and trying a wall fix that I am going to implement for Sirilion as well (fix as in: tear down all walls and rebuild).

[Gandwarf]

I fixed the thick walls by bulldozing them and drawing them again. I updated the map in the first post with the final version (I will probably give it one more update, some towers need to be replaced).

[Cebrion]

I love this map, mainly as it addresses one of my personal pet peeves, that being city maps with way too few buildings. All too often we see this in published maps that are portrayed as being exacting representations(down to showing blown-up map sections with street names, building names, etc.), but that have way too few buildings to support a community of its size. Nice job on this!

One style question: water is generally darker the farther from the bank/shore it is, so do you prefer to make the water dark at the bank/shore so that it stands out more?

Thanks.

[Gandwarf]

One style question: water is generally darker the farther from the bank/shore it is, so do you prefer to make the water dark at the bank/shore so that it stands out more?

I agree the water should be darker. I have been experimenting with some effects in similar maps, but haven't posted them on this forum yet.

It's likely I am going to redo this map some time as I know I can do a better job now. But it's gonna be a huge undertaking and I am not looking forward to it right now. I need to get in the mood

I recently redid some other maps:

Concetron
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3874

Meerzicht
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3934