City done in CD3
Clercon
Betatester Traveler
This is a map I've made for a payed commission. It is made in CD3 and Photoshop. Photoshop has been used for the cliffs and colour effects.
Hope you like it.
Hope you like it.
Comments
I have been having a terrible time dealing with elevation differences in the city I am mapping and would love to know any techniques to better achieve the cliff type effect. I have used shading however the results create more of a hill type effect instead of a break in elevation.
I found some cliff symbols buried in the overland folder and if there was a fill pattern like the one they have in the symbols I could shape them as needed and just fill them in.
Hopefully you can provide some advice.
No worries much about the tutorial, and congratulations again on the map. And agree about cliffs (and seashore) being biggest issues in CD3.
As everyone else has already said, the cliffs are brilliant.
@Medio: As Clercon said the Bamboo tablets aren't expensive (and they're still really good), but also keep an eye on eBay - LOADS of people get a Wacom, only use it once or twice, then sell on eBay. I bought a brand new Bamboo pen&touch a couple of years ago for £60 that my artistic daughter was constantly borrowing, so I ended up letting her have it and buying a replacement from eBay for about £15 that was in better condition than the one I already had. You can easily pick up an Intuos 3 from eBay for less than a brand new Bamboo.
On the other side, i´m buying a Dell Venue Pro 11 for my company this month, and that includes an active pen. I know it´s not as good as a Wacom but i wonder if i will be able to use it for at least do some scratches of mapping with it.
Need to add the Wacom to my wishing list if finally we get a BIG contract with Ecuador next month
In any case thank you very much for your advice I will see what I can manage.
May I ask,
- What are the little round brown objects lining the paths in the central park?
- What is the building at the south end, in the corner, the one shaped like Princess Leia's blockade runner, do you know?
- Are all the houses done individually with the house tool, or did you use the street tool? I ask because they're so similar in size, depending on the neighborhood!
Bravo, sir. Inspiring work, as usual.~Dogtag
The little brown object are actually small bushes, they are really green but that looks much clearer in the original size. This version is about 20% do the original size.
The building in the south end is just a building I added in to break of the pattern that the normal houses create. So it is up to the customer to make up what it really is
The houses are mainly made with the street tool. Bit around 20% of the houses are added manually with the house tool.
~Dogtag
Or should I just stop babbling and read your blog?
On a side note, I'd also like to say that your farmlands always look ridiculously realistic. I don't mean the fields themselves — though those look great — I mean the roads, buildings, and trees that you dot throughout the fields look almost photo-realistic, layout-wise. For those, I probably just need to study more maps, or even photos of modern farmland, but you really have a great eye for it.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
Honetsly the best thing you can do is to look at older parts of cities in google earth, thats what I do. Also don't be ashamed to steal
As an example, go to google maps and search for the swedish town karlsborg. Then have a look at this map on my blog http://mappingworlds.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/kizik.png. As you can see I'm just a simple thief
+1
And, again, beautiful map.
~Dogtag