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    Scale threw me off, and it's still throwing me off even though I've figured out what it should be I was working at 1px=1foot, which you would think would be easy to remember, but I keep finding things don't look right, so if I consider them at haf that (1px=6") it looks better, but still doesn't feel quite right

    For the moment, I'm just going by looks, but I trust my artistic eye to tell me if something feels off

    I know there's the "lazy" method of making houses, but I really want to follow this one as is. And I do like the way this is turning out, it's just taking me a long time. heh
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    I think my first attempt actually ended up something like 1px=5 feet. Not quite close enough when I came to start the buildings and walls.

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    I'm doing a pretty small town (300 or so people, I figure). I wonder if anyone has any suggestions on the kind of scale to use for different populations sizes (based on a 2000 to 3000 pixel map) or if anyone's really thought about in in those terms..

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    No thoughts, sorry... and I did a *lot* of city maps
    CD3 does have the benefit that you can create a map at a certain size and then scale it up if necessary (without quality loss). Most of my city maps started with 1000x800 pixels I think and then I exported them to larger sizes.
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    The landmass I'm using is about 1.8 miles across so I reckon I might be better off trying to double up the size of the map to 4000 wide.

    It's to be the main city in my campaign so I have no problems putting the work in but to get it at a decent scale I think thats what I'm going to have to do.

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    Any WIP's for your work guys? Would love to see them.
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    So far I just have the one on the last page, showing the water around the bridge pilings.
    I'll punch out a copy in a bit to show what it's worked up to

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    The bridges leave me craving for more
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    At the moment I've only got eh land mass as I keep deleting the work I've done due to the scale being off. Once I get something that looks good enough to go on I'llpost up some WIP pics

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    Ahhhh, but the craving....
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