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Made this one for an Edge of the Empire RPG homebrew adventure (Inspired by the Mandalorian).
When I was a little kid, about six or seven, my sister and I were home after school and my mom was at work. It was a different world, so we thought at least, and leaving your kids home alone at base housing didn't seem like child abuse then the way it does now. Of course, neither did drinking or smoking while you were pregnant. Who knew? So we were home and we decided to do one of those things that kids do that make you question the wisdom of letting them stay home alone at a tender ...
The old cartographer sneezed loudly upsetting a pile of papers on his cluttered desk. "By the gods." he grumbled. "I'll have that young fools head for not dusting this office" His grumbling continued as he shuffled over to look out his window. The vista was magically generated and showed a large expanse of land next to the ocean. He knew his King wished a map made of this area as precursor to a scouting expedition. The magic viewing window would help immensely but it would still ...
Originally Posted by wthrasherb I'm proud to present this map today. For anyone who has been following along, I've been focusing on the ocean and finding some kind of blending that works for me. Consider it done. I added some "grungy" texturing and more Photoshop magic and got the following result. I also touched up some coloring in some areas to add some subtle variations. The first image here is just the map image. The second image is the map with a border and "cartouche" and I added a canvas texture to give ...
I had previously thought that there was no hope of sussing out the operations nescessary to wrangle a square grid down onto an axonometric plane. As it turns out, with help from a very straightforward little tutorial I found (http://ahninniah.blogspot.ca/2013/04...-inkscape.html), the solution was in fact very simple to deduce. The secret ingredient was the very precise scale transform step - profuse thanks to Olga Bikmullina for simply giving the answer. ...
Updated 04-14-2015 at 09:29 AM by Baile nam Fonn (Meshon's comment prompted better description of link)
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