CC3 FLoating Landmasses

[Steel General]

Not that there's anything wrong with what you came up with, but as a suggestion you might consider changing the background to a darker blue.

I created a floating island awhile ago (in Photoshop), it was pointed out to me that as you increase in altitude things tend to take on a blu-ish cast.

[KeithC]

... as you increase in altitude things tend to take on a blu-ish cast.

That's actually really good to know! This isn't a map that I'm working on. It was just my attempt at answering a new poster over at Profantasy about how to create the effect. Hopefully he'll make it over here and get to read your comments.

CC3 is a very powerful application (based on the Fast Cad platform) but it's also very limited in certain aspects. There are a lot of things I would change about the map if it were my own project. Shadows would fall differently based on elevation of both the landmass creating the shadow and anything it hits on it's path to the vanishing point. Differing levels of blur based upon proximity of obstacle being one of the first changes.

The style above works really well for floating landmasses over a static background like an ocean or even another landmass. For floating over clouds or any varying elevation CC3 either doesn't have or I don't know how to use the tools necessary for placing shadows over a rolling substance such as clouds i.e. Bump Mapping or Height mapping, etc.

[Nomadic]

I created a floating island awhile ago (in Photoshop), it was pointed out to me that as you increase in altitude things tend to take on a blu-ish cast.

It's called atmospheric perspective and it doesn't have to do with height, but distance in general. The more air between you and something the more it fades to blue (take a look at a mountain off in the distance).

[Steel General]

It's called atmospheric perspective and it doesn't have to do with height, but distance in general. The more air between you and something the more it fades to blue (take a look at a mountain off in the distance).

I stand corrected...