Aargh - double posted now - still gives me a chance to answer...
Yes I could do that I think. So create a blank background. Good idea. Ill see to it.
Aargh - double posted now - still gives me a chance to answer...
Yes I could do that I think. So create a blank background. Good idea. Ill see to it.
Cool yes that sorts that out doesnt it. Right ill try some more shortly with different roof types and get them all zipped.
I'm wondering about the shadows. I could just rotate the pattern to suit my needs for sun placement but I'm thinking that you might want to dump that part as well...no biggie either way. I think a slate or shake-shingle type roof might be cool as well as stone and maybe terra cotta. Up to you, just some ideas. Thanks for these, I'm sure I'll use em.
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I can adjust the shadow angle and so on. Its just that in previous maps people have always wanted the shadow. Also I would use tokens for each house but if I rotate them to place them down then I don't get consistent lighting or shadows so a major part of this for me is to get all the houses placed with the same lighting. But I can do one with no shadow if thats what people want.
Right the first one is up. Now its a biggie at about 35Mb so dont all do a gold rush job on my host
Thatched Clear background with shadows.
It ought to load in a browser but might be better to do a 'save target as' on the link.
Let me know if these are good and ill look at tiled, slate and woodblock roofs too.
This is it tiling - its not bad. If you look close you can see the edges in a few places but most of it is seamless. This image is a 3x3 set of them where the middle tile takes up most of the image so the edges of the tile are not all that far from the edges of the image. Good enough for me any way.
Oh I also made the shadows semi transparent so it should show up the ground underneath. Oh well just try it and see how you feel about it and let me know. I can change the transparency, amount, direction or anything. The C&C's are welcome to get this about right before I do them all like it as id like to stick with one style and run with that for all roofs.
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