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I found a way to make variated colours on the buildings using (I think) clouds with strong colours and then the posterize filters...you end up with each bulding having about four colours or so on it and then you wand/fill them to colours of your choice....I'd have to play around a bit to remember it properly tho'
It's looking really good!
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@ravells - Thanks for the tip! I'll mess around with the posterization and see if I can't get some different colors in there.
and break up the mosaic buildings with the occasional odd shaped one.
I like the rough areas (with no housing) a lot. The water is murky enough, but not sure if I like it. The houses look really orderly and clean, so you definitely need to grunge it up a bit
Oh, and definitely what Ravells said!
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I couldn't sleep last night, so I spent some time working on the textures and colors. The posterization worked great once I started to tweak how the it layered with other textures. Each "group" of like sized buildings where colored with a black and white cloud render, then a pattern overlay was applied to them with an overlay layer style, then the same group of buildings have a layer of posterized colored clouds on top as an overlay layer.
- Added docks. Need to make them more jagged/randomized
- Added new water... i like its mood better
- Tweaked mountains to give them a sharper look
- Need to add more special buildings to break up mosaic pattern
- Need to add details to special buildings
- Need to add landmarks (prison, junk yard, cemetery, arcane engineering school)
Thoughts?
Bored at work... ah, the joys of a G5.
- Added more "special buildings" to cut down on the patterns.
- Added the lighthouse
- Added the "junk" bay
- Tweaked water... considering adding fog
That water is juicy! Love that! I just used two, count 'em TWO, exclamation points...I never use exclamation points. Everything else looks good too so far. Once this gets wrapped up you can count on some rep from me.
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I'm no expert here, but I think the water remains too strong a feature. I think it looks very nice, but that is also the problem, it sorta distracts from the city layout itself too much still, which is the best bit. It's a very nice map though!
Well, you have certainly grunged up stuff. Nice!
The biggest problem for me is the mosaic look of the houses. Part of the problem is that most of the houses don't share walls. At the moment to me the mosaic look kinda ruins the image of a living, breathing city... my best advice: try pushing houses closes together, so they share walls.
Love what you did to the mountains.
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