Great Wall
AWizardInDallas
Traveler
Greetings! So I have been working on my game world for literally years and I'm headed toward the finish line (yeah, I'll always be tinkering with it, but that's okay too). The most recent hold up has been the need to create a great wall. The elves in my campaign world prefer to keep the orcs out and the elves well secluded and protected.
I posted here a while back and was offered several good suggestions, though none of them panned out. The wall is quite extensive, so I opted for a symbol catalog that would do the trick. So, I dusted off my geometry skills and set to work at creating a symbol set and have succeeded. I may expand it at some point but thought I'd share a view of the results.
There is just one oddity, I'm not sure why the catalog appears dark in the symbol bar? Anyone know? This is what I'm using the for the stone fills:
#Bitmaps\Tiles\Dungeon\Annual Jon Roberts\Stone_brown_light_HI.PNG Dungeon Brown Light
#Bitmaps\Tiles\Dungeon\Annual Jon Roberts\Stone_grey_light_HI.PNG Dungeon Grey Light
Cheers,
Rich
I posted here a while back and was offered several good suggestions, though none of them panned out. The wall is quite extensive, so I opted for a symbol catalog that would do the trick. So, I dusted off my geometry skills and set to work at creating a symbol set and have succeeded. I may expand it at some point but thought I'd share a view of the results.
There is just one oddity, I'm not sure why the catalog appears dark in the symbol bar? Anyone know? This is what I'm using the for the stone fills:
#Bitmaps\Tiles\Dungeon\Annual Jon Roberts\Stone_brown_light_HI.PNG Dungeon Brown Light
#Bitmaps\Tiles\Dungeon\Annual Jon Roberts\Stone_grey_light_HI.PNG Dungeon Grey Light
Cheers,
Rich
Comments
My only suggestion for the darker color on the symbols in the catalog would be check to make sure the png's you made them into had a clear background. If it isn' t that then I don't know what it would be.
placing these wallelemtens seems to be lot of work
Just a side note on the map...did you intend to put this fabulous wall down on top of your trees?
Shot with coned towers.
But the the river seems to go under he wall.(last picture)
Have you made some gates?
Like in Lord of the Ringe the Wall blasted away by the urukhai.
Excuse me english is not my mother tongue.
I'm not really planning to make culverts or gates or tiny details as they wouldn't be visible except on an extreme zoom in. The wall symbols are intended for large scale overland maps. It would be like looking for a culvert in the Great Wall of China from space. The pics I posted are zoomed way in and the map is in a draft state. When I'm done, there won't be a river under the wall. I am planning on making addition symbols though and would rather focus on that. I might take a stab at other shapes (curved, octagonal, etc.), but am focused right now on getting my game world maps completed. The world map is actually incredibly beautiful.
Here is a badly made one by me that took almost no time but I thought I would share, though it is probably too small to really see much.
Just a thought. Your symbols look fantastic and the maps look really nice (Jon Roberts overland?).
Thanks for letting us see your stuff!
~Dogtag
~Dogtag