3D Map Sketch?

[Strickland5]

I find isometric maps useful for determining vantage points and potentially cover for my online games. I've fiddled some with Google Sketchup but not overly much. I've found several maps that people are making from the old D&D modules, which are pretty slick.

[torstan]

I like it. I have to say that the style can be very effective - hand drawn 3D is precisely how I would describe the corpse-bride buildings. On the other hand, probably not so useful from a mapping point of view. Your actually hand drawn work is probably quicker and better. I suppose using sketch-up to get a basic layout and then doing a hand-drawn paint over filling in all the detail would be the closest to actually using it for a 3D sketch.

[Gamerprinter]

In a campy sort of way, my intention was to look rough and sketchy. In fact I made the walls much like a card house, there is hardly any width to the walls, floor and roof. The walls don't even properly connect. Corpse Bride was kind of in the back of my mind as well, in the conception.

In a way, I've done this sort of thing before, differently.

In my Craefort thread the first of the encounter scale maps I created was the PC's clan fort. Here... http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=3752

Then I created a map object for it (Nomadic thinks it should be a simpler map object, I tend to agree and may change it). First I created a 3D model of the fort's layout with the intended elevation changes I wanted to put in the top down map. Rather than texturing all the faces properly - lots of work. I used the 3D rendering to do a quick sketch.

Then I colored it in, in Xara - a quick splash is all. Afterward placing in this map. http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...?t=3826&page=4

Anyway, the following images are first: the 3D rendered model, then a lineart sketch of the model, then a quick splash of color - is this what you mean JFj? I can create a larger/higher res version as a tranparent PNG if you think it should go in Midgardsormr's thread.

GP