That sounds like a sweet idea!! I love the genre generic approach. I definitely will be looking for entries that are something other than "yet another fantasy map".
I have thought long and hard what to do, and decided....A Cemetery.
I think this would give a good spread across as many genres as possible:
RPG (Fighting the Undead)
Modern Spy (A cool place for the Maltese Falcon to be hidden)
Western (Old Man Cooper was buried with his deed, and Cattle Baron Henry needs it for the Railway Rights)
Modern Horror/Cthulu (Fight Zombies, or the Old Ones)
So, stay tooned for a map soon!
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That sounds like a sweet idea!! I love the genre generic approach. I definitely will be looking for entries that are something other than "yet another fantasy map".
Brilliant concept!!!! I can't wait to see it too!
Ok, so here's my map (so far, not sure if I want to tweek or not).
Making a map only 75 K and making it BIG (a cemetery) AND trying to put details in is...TOUGH!
So, here it is.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
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Look and feel are unique and stylised. Cool map Neon. Different too. It has an almost cartoony atmosphere.
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I like it. It's a tad yellow, but the overall (infra)structure can certainly be transferred to other types of graveyard (dark necropolis, f.e.)
Two in harmony surpass one in perfection
I went with yellow because I wanted a sort of 'deserty' color, but I can change the color up to a more yellowy green, more a dead grass color.
Last edited by NeonKnight; 05-14-2008 at 03:58 PM.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
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MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
If you turn off random dither on your PNG export then I imagine that your size will go down a bit. Random sequences don't compress at all. Those fuzzy edges in the shadows and path borders are probably a third or more of your total file size.
I ran your file thru PS7 "Save for Web..." which saves you 15k, there's one lower setting and even slight blurring saves another 10k.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave