Mar / April '18 Lite Challenge: Castle Caenwyr

[QED42]

I just realised how little time is left for the challenge so I guess I really have to put that procrastination to the side now!

Nicer touch on the water. Not sure if it would help or not but maybe a little darker shade of blue to "highlight" the deeper areas? Water is always a pain for me if I am not working it as a height field, so I don't have much other advice to offer. Other than that this seems to be coming along nice enough. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the suggestion, if I get enough time I'll go back and play with putting some darker bits into the water.

Great design ! Maybe add a little variation to the roofs with a grunge brush ? Or maybe you already planned on doing it.

Thanks ThomasR! Originally I was going to put a texture of some type on the roofs but then I couldn't figure out a way to do it easily, that's one of the many things I stopped progressing on to do something else because I was stuck. Right now I'm not sure what I'm going to do to the roofs but something should be done to them for sure!

And on to the update. I have redone all the town buildings so that hopefully they look a bit better now. The other things I've done is added more roads and then did shading + highlights around the roads and on the trees.

### Latest WIP ###
castle12.png

[Bogie]

Good update, now it's starting to look finished. 4 days left!

[QED42]

Good update, now it's starting to look finished. 4 days left!

We're getting there! (I think)

Added a bunch of stuff so hopefully now I just need to do a border and label all the things.

### Latest WIP ###
castle15.png

[Straf]

Nice work

[Neyasha]

A very nice map. The shadows look very convincing and add a lot of depth to the buildings!

[QED42]

Nice work

Thanks Straf! I spotted myself on your map, see if you can find yourself on this one now!

A very nice map. The shadows look very convincing and add a lot of depth to the buildings!

Thanks Neyasha, I wasn't sure about the shadows as they were a bit of a mess to do!

### Latest WIP ###
castle17.jpg

Unless anyone has an suggestions or spots any mistakes I think this might be the final version.

[Straf]

This is trivial because I'm thinking that the majority of people look at the map and refer to the key to see what each feature is. However I often look at the key and try to find the corresponding number on the map. It would be nice, therefore, if the numbers are presented in a logical form on the map. I'm OCD though and would probably execute an elf for putting a spoon in the drawer the wrong way round.

Nice work tough. I do think that the whole river might have been circled around the castle, but that may be true if I zoomed out a bit

[Bogie]

Nice to see it all come together! The shadows really add a lot to the map.

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