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Designed using Illustrator for an RPG campaign. I've done one district (Tanners' Row) of a sprawling city (Haffenburg) and will be slowly building up the picture of the city as we go.
This was my first crack at using illustrator to design a map, and it could certainly use some polishing.
John
Great start (though abit pixellated at full zoom)...will keep an eye on how you progress with this.
Thanks for the kind words, I think the pixelation is down to the rubbish images I used for the pins. I'll be trying to do my own versions. Overall, however, I 'm quite happy with the map and the sort of theme it conveys.
John
Illustrator, huh? Cool. I never knew a vector app could produce a nice hand-drawn line. Looks pretty well laid out as well, although it would have to pass the Hoel test :) So far so good.
hoel test? I'm missing something methinks...
I'm a little bit more used to Illustrator and quite intimidated by photoshop, however it seemed ideal for the type of map I wanted to do. A hand drawn type of map that could be easily replicated as new districts are added. However I'd like to get more use out of photoshop as I want to create a colour map of the city.
John
Have a new push-pin!
Hmmm... no support for svg? Ah well, it's in a zip, then, and a jpg so you can see what it looks like.
edit: @Ascension: Illustrator has a good variety of artist brushes that can be used to stroke a path. I used the same or a similar brush here:
http://www.bryanray.name/illustration/081108Geisha.jpg
Hoel is one of the local residents. He comments a lot on the layout of cities, especially regarding their defences. At the moment he isn't really active because he is moving, so you should be safe ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by John Anderson
Nice map by the way!
Many thanks for all the kind words, and a huuuuge thanks to Gandwarf for the shiny new pin. It shall be incorporated into Haffenberg as soon as i get the chance (exams looming). As a quick question, where do I save the SVG file in Illustrator and Photoshop? I've been playing around with the excellent tutorial from pasis using PS for city map and am having a ball (although I very much doubt it will do any good in my exam).
John
Yeah... ehhh, about that. The pin was made by Midgardsormr. I think you looked at the wrong post :)Quote:
Originally Posted by John Anderson
Aaargh! Sorry about that. My thanks to midgardsormr. Sigh.
John