Blowing out the map making cobwebs.
Gday all. A year or so ago... no must be longer than that....maybe 1 1/2 years ago I got stuck into CC3, mainly focusing on battlemaps for D&D. Things cooled off after that though and my CC3 skills gathered dust and began rotting away.
Luckily with the release of the 5th edition of D&D the fire is back and I've began reteaching myself how to use CC3. Also in anticipation of CC3+ I thought it would be a great time to re-school the map making skills.
Incidentally, if anybody is reading this from Christchurch New Zealand and is keen start up a D&D group (or if they have an existing group and are happy to include another person in their mid 30's) please let me know! Me and a friend are keen to play, but he will only be the occasional player so I would be keen to get into a friendly relaxed group who play a bit more regularly. There will be cool battlemaps
Anyways here is the result of lots of head scratching, Joe Sweeney youtube tutorials and pouring through the tomb of ultimate mapping. In my head I'm still working though the story associated with this dungeon, but at this stage, I think it will be in the basement of an abandoned mansion and will be the hangout for an evil mage and his cronies, were-rats maybe? Compulsory torture room and well trapped secret treasure room plus a rickety ladder descending into the unknown gloom...
Here is the link for the PDF if anybody wants it. The PDF is 100mb but has great resolution.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4ftwj1iqaueqzx/Reschooling 2.pdf?dl=0
Right, I cant remember if there are any tricks to attaching pictures, but here goes...First picture will be the whole map, then three zoomed in pictures of the main areas.
Critique welcome!
Luckily with the release of the 5th edition of D&D the fire is back and I've began reteaching myself how to use CC3. Also in anticipation of CC3+ I thought it would be a great time to re-school the map making skills.
Incidentally, if anybody is reading this from Christchurch New Zealand and is keen start up a D&D group (or if they have an existing group and are happy to include another person in their mid 30's) please let me know! Me and a friend are keen to play, but he will only be the occasional player so I would be keen to get into a friendly relaxed group who play a bit more regularly. There will be cool battlemaps
Anyways here is the result of lots of head scratching, Joe Sweeney youtube tutorials and pouring through the tomb of ultimate mapping. In my head I'm still working though the story associated with this dungeon, but at this stage, I think it will be in the basement of an abandoned mansion and will be the hangout for an evil mage and his cronies, were-rats maybe? Compulsory torture room and well trapped secret treasure room plus a rickety ladder descending into the unknown gloom...
Here is the link for the PDF if anybody wants it. The PDF is 100mb but has great resolution.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4ftwj1iqaueqzx/Reschooling 2.pdf?dl=0
Right, I cant remember if there are any tricks to attaching pictures, but here goes...First picture will be the whole map, then three zoomed in pictures of the main areas.
Critique welcome!
Comments
I only have one suggestion and it's probably something you just over looked. The carpet in the wizard's room should not have a shadow and the chair and table on top of it should have shadows.
The map looks like a whole lotta fun. Suggestion: throw a couple of blood splatters on the floor of the torture chamber. Like Shessar mentioned about the carpet, though, just be sure to add them to a Symbols Flat sheet, or similar, so they don't cast shadows — unless they're blood slimes or something equally creepy!
Your map looks awesome! If you hadn't said so, I'd never guess you hadn't used the software in a while. Your players are lucky and they should have a blast.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
Couldn't sort out the problem of posting subsequent images after the first one, I tried a PNG but no luck, but at least they can still be downloaded and viewed.
I've updated the picture in the first post and updated the pdf too. Here is the .FCW file is anybody wants it for themselves. Might call this one finished I think. Next project is to grapple with creating complex walls, floors etc, gulp.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
Also, another hint for attachments: You don't need to post 4 consecutive posts to post 4 attachments. Simply create your post with one attachment, then post it. Now, simply hit the edit button on your post, and you can add an additional attachment to the same post. Rinse and repeat. I know, a bit more cumbersome than adding all 4 when initially creating the post, but just as simple as posting 4 posts in a row, and looks nicer IMHO. (You can also show the attachment anywhere in your post instead of the bottom if you use the [Image_00] tag, where 00 is the attachment id [you can see this if you edit a post with an attachment in it])