Enter the Lushou - WIP encounter map...

[mearrin69]

Wasn't much liking my hand-drawn attempts and these things often seem to be done with textures so I'm working with that now. I downloaded a bucket-load of free textures from various places and have been playing a bit. The buildings are still my sketch versions but the ground is sort of progressing. I think it needs some more work...plus some details...but I kind of like it.

I'm making a bunch of tileable textures for this and will probably share them at some point...I expect it'll be many Mb worth so I'll have to upload them somewhere.

Comments, suggestions, criticism are welcome. Thanks!
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[edit]Strange. Didn't pick up my attachment the first time.

[mearrin69]

Not entirely happy with the way things are looking but it's getting there.

The ground is actually looking pretty decent...and will look better when it gets some proper shadows from the buildings and some misc details to make it look like something you can stand on.

Started working on roof details tonight. Not much I like there yet. The roof on the cathouse is strange. I made the texture but, no matter which way I turn it, it looks like it's the wrong direction. Some odd optical effect with the texture. I persp corrected and warped it myself so I'm pretty sure I know which direction is up in the original...it just doesn't look right in my map.

I had thought some color manip and scaling might make the two wood-shingled buildings look different enough. Apparently not. Guess I'm going to have to make distinct textures for all of the buildings. That's not so bad, though...I'll be prepared for bigger maps down the road.

Lots of looks, no comments...that's okay, not much to see so far. If you've got some snappy advice, though, please feel free to drop in. I'll keep posting them anyway...posting WIPs gives me a goal to keep moving forward. Thanks!
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