In Process Large City

sdavies2720 · September 2009

This is a very large city from my campaign -- started in CC2 and never finished. I'm hoping to get enough time to at least start moving it forward again. I'll probably change to some CC3 elements as well, but as yet I'm not sure what the final style will be.

A little more detail is here:

I did start on a relief view, and realized that I needed to finish the base map before I started this. Interesting effect though.

You should be able to click on the image to see the larger size in FLickr. COmments always welcome, and I'll share my (probably halting) progress up here as well.

Steve

bearclaw · September 2009

I love the alleyways in the city map. Impressive.

Monsen · September 2009

That relief view looks really nice. I'd really like to see how it turns out when you are done.

Joachim de Ravenbel · September 2009

Yes, the 3D view is great. How did you do it?

sdavies2720 · September 2009

I took all the contour lines from the base map, copied them to a new map, then applied the projection function from CC2/Perspectives. That takes things that are shown top-down and transforms them to an icosohedral (?) projection -- basically as if you're looking at them from about 60 degrees above the plain.

I then shifted each contour "up" (y-coordinate) by the distance between that contour and the base one on the map.

That was all the easy part. THen I started placing building starting with the ones I'd drawn in the temple district. I'd copy a group from one level of the map, re-project it, and paste it at the appropriate place in the new map.

At that point I realizesd just how much work there would be, and decided not to move forward until I finished the base map.

In some ways, it was a reality check on my contours. While I can read a topographical map and know the general lay of the land from it, I found that creating one takes a different insight. I wanted the temples to sit on the top of a cliff, but I couldn't tell if I was putting the contours close enough together. As things turned out, I decided to stay with what I had even though the temple area cliff is not as steep as I wanted, and the cemetary (City of Sleep) is more rugged than I wanted. But I only realized what I was dealing with when I did this projection.

Steve

Joachim de Ravenbel · September 2009

Thanks.

I'm looking forward to seeing the finished project (or intermediates).
Do you intent to work on the 3D too?

The Bull · October 2009

Looks really good. Hope you find the energy to finish this project.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

The Bull

JimP · October 2009

That city is crying out for a tutorial.

sdavies2720 · October 2009

That city is crying out for someone with time to work on it.

JimP · October 2009

Posted By: sdavies2720That city is crying out for someone with time to work on it.

There is that as well. Lack of time is one of the reasons I haven't done much on my web sites this year.

Ralf · October 2009

Very nice and the relief view looks like a ton of work.

Did you do that with my method of projecting contours with Perspectives and staggering them "upwards"? Or did you come up with another method?

sdavies2720 · October 2009

Ralf, you have it exactly. Perspectives is great for this kind of thing.

Steve

Mateus090985 · January 2013

This is an insane amount of work! Congratulations.

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