Detchersville

[RobA]

If a village, it is unlikely to have many roads - possibly just one, the one "through" town that it built up upon. If it is at a crossroads, than two!

There will be many "paths" however, often straight lines (accounting for terrain and obstacle) between common places, i.e. the well/water supply (possibly a village square), the market, the place of worship, etc. and between neighbours.

Also, regarding building shapes, I'll throw you a couple more links specific to gimp you may wish to look over:
How to make a rotating brush
Creating brushes for gimp
Gimp brush for drawing buildings

-Rob A>

[Alfar]

Ok, so maybe not village. Town, rather. Your Gimp brush for drawing buildings looks like it makes the kind of towns I was thinking; with the road lining. The other stuff made with the mosaic filter made blocks of houses.

Thanks for the help so far, guys.

Rob A, I'm trying to think of a way to put one brush in each part of a disjoint selection - any ideas on how to accomplish this?

[Alfar]

I haven't given up on this yet... now working on making a path from the selection and using the strokes to figure out where houses should go. Hm...

Anyway, here's an example of my script's output. I clouded a background into it, the rest is scripted.

[Ascension]

Don't take this wrong but those houses look like rocks and this could make for a cool-looking henge.

[Alfar]

Aye... one of my colleages thought I was setting up a camp with tents. Ah well. Building shapes is one of the things I'm trying to improve.

Another thing I'm fiddling with is adding trees.

Here's a bunch of trees I've made that I think are pretty nice, and it should be possible to script pretty easily. I also included a transparent version without shadows, for easy snagging.

I know they don't fit the rest of what I generate size-wise, I was just playing around for now.

[Steel General]

The tree shapes are nice, but I think you might need to adjust the color a bit.

To me they are a bit over-saturated, almost neon.

[Alfar]

I was trying for something like the ones in this map (post #27)

Maybe mine are a bit on the bright side. Easily amended, of course.

[Steel General]

Don't feel obligated to change it just on my word alone, wait and see what others have to say. It might just be the monitor I'm looking at.

[Alfar]

Nah, sure - like I said, for the time being, it's just messing around. Maybe I can make a brush out of them, so one can just paint a forest... hmm.

I'm having some progress with making nicer houses, though. I'm now able to make rectangular selections at any angle.

Edit: Polygonal - T and L-shapes and such.

[Alfar]

More progress - I now have a script that made the selections for the houses in the attached image. That's a whole lot better than what I used to have, at least to my mind.

Now, I need to figure out how to avoid placing buildings on top of each other... hmm... May have to paint on a mask rather than work with the selection only. Ah well. Progress never the less.

Edit: Yay - Got rid of the overlapping!