Breakwater - a city in the Mountain Realms

[Ghostwaryr]

Hey tilt, great job so far. I have one minor point to make about the breakwater itself. As someone that has spent a great deal of his life around the ocean, and has family that are commercial fisherman, I know that most breakwaters have a overlapping entrance at an oblique to the ocean itself. Of coarse this applies mostly to an Ocean as Sea's normally don't have the absurd wave surges that Ocean's do, so if the city is located on a Sea go ahead and disregard my comments.

[tilt]

hi Ghost, thanks for your note - had to look up a few words
So, today I learned that there is a structure called Breakwater ... it was just a name I made up
and I've learned that oblique means an angle not 90 percent (did know the word in its font use though)

Concerning my Breakwater ... it is at the ocean, but I haven't gotten around to map the harbour/docks/breakwaters yet, still busy with the land structures - I'm planning to make some docks for fishing boats in the river close to the sea as the original harbour, then as the city grew they added a new harbour on the ocean side. When I get that far, feel free to correct me in my attempts to map those elements

[ravells]

I've just come across this map....go tilt! If you want some building shapes with variation I attach a bunch made using context free and Alfar's building script. Context free is a free download just use Alfar's script to generate more or play with the script to get different looking buildings. The buildings are all in vector (.svg).

[tilt]

thanks ravi - right now everything is just square, with a few "angeled" buildings - but as I get them all placed I'll exchange some of them with more interesting shapes

[tilt]

So I made a small test of "roofing" the city, here is what I got...

[tilt]

thanks jtougas - haven't counted my buildings but I know I'm about halfway there, and then I'll have to add some fortifications and the harbour and all the little stuff. Long way to go

[tilt]

So - 3 years later I return to mapping and Breakwater. A map I've been planning in my head for, well, 3 years

To make it harder on myself I've now scrapped everything and I'm starting from scratch


really from scratch
I'll be using photoshop for this and it will be a 20 x 28 cm map in 200 dpi.

[tilt]

So I'm trying to figure out how the style of the buildings and area shall be - first attempt.

[Carnifex]

So I'm trying to figure out how the style of the buildings and area shall be - first attempt.

Is this made in Illustrator?

[Azélor]

Is this made in Illustrator?

I don't think so: it's blurry and has some textures. Or maybe the shapes were made with Illustrator but modified with another software after.