Community Atlas - Spiros Isle - Helinesa Lighthouse

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Here is the starting point for the Lighthouse in that notorious smugglers' den of unparalleled vice and depravity ;). Same style as for the Inn, and the grid is 1 suare = 5' (not 20 as mistakenly put.) Same comments as for the Inn apply

HadrianVI · May 2017

Very nice start! Looking forward to see your progress.

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Here is the start of the ground floor. There will be 3 floors above ground, and 1 below

HadrianVI · May 2017

Looks good. Note, however, that the bottom of the tower would either be a more closed circle or it would have to have pillars to properly distribute the weight of the tower above the house.

pixelkitteh · May 2017

I like your little touches - the boat on the shore, the rocks off the lighthouse... Lovely, looking forward to what you do next!

[Deleted User] · May 2017

The first map was direct from my map of Helinesa (in the Atlas, Artemisia continent). For the actual lighthouse, it is just the bit of shore showing.

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Here is phase 2 of the ground floor. I have thickened the walls of the lighthouse proper. The outside remains to be done

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Well here is the 'final' stage. I am quite inexperienced in battlemap drawing, so pointers from Sue and lorelei would help - and anyone else of course. I am now working on the 2nd floor

Loopysue · May 2017

Its all looking really tidy, Quenten, though I don't know that the walls of the lighthouse need to be quite as thick.

Portland lighthouse (about 4 miles from where I live) only has 2m thick walls at the base, and a circular room with narrow slot windows at each level all the way up to the top.

EDIT: Nope! I stand corrected - by myself

There aren't any rooms all the way up to the top, but the stairs are a very large open spiral from the room on the ground floor level where you enter the lighthouse. I don't know whether Portland Bill is any fatter than other lighthouses! LOL!

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Easier to build a thick wall with rock/rubble fill between outer layers, like the ancints did. Not that I'm showing it here. Still, I think I'll keep the walls as thick as they are for now.
Is this floor Ok to submit to the atlas, do you think?

Loopysue · May 2017

Are there any rocks you can use that are top down instead of ISO for the sea?

Apart from that It looks fine to me

[Deleted User] · May 2017

I'll look through my catalogues. Thanks for that advice.

Monsen · May 2017

I have to agree with HadrianVI's earlier comment though, the main house shouldn't be cutting into the tower like that. Even with the thick walls, there are quite a lot of tonnes of rock now resting on basically nothing over the main house. A tower really need full support all the way around it's circumference all the way down to the ground level, or it would topple over. Actually, those thick walls only make the weight "hanging in the air" above the main house that much larger, increasing the problem.

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Dammit, you're right. Back to the drawing board
Maybe, I'll turn it into a wooden structure.

pixelkitteh · May 2017

This is the one near where I live, there is a small entrance structure attached to it but the actual house is quite a way aways

[Deleted User] · May 2017

True, but I have to stick to what is in the village map. I think my solution of a stone base with wooden superstructure will do as a reasonable compromse. And I recognize the lighthouse - was there last year!

pixelkitteh · May 2017

How funny! It's also the one from Round the Twist hehe

[Deleted User] · May 2017

I hope this meets the objections of our fantasy engineers

I have made the house fit around the outside of the lighthouse wall, which is now stone in the 2nd level as well - the stone tickness should support it, and none will be resting on the house (as you will see when I put up the 2nd level. But seriously, i do thank you for pointing out an obvious design flaw. Though I did complain to myself about having to redo it somewhat - ah well, them's the breaks, and is why we need the forum topoint out obvious problems.

[Deleted User] · May 2017

The rock change will be next, Sue

[Deleted User] · May 2017

I lied, Sue - I'm going to do all 3 floors first, then change the rocks - I can then copy and paste into the other 2 levels.
Anyway, here is level 2 - I think it's complete, but let me know otherwise. The house roof abuts the lighthouse wall.

Lorelei · May 2017

Wonderful job on this Quenten!!! I will certainly be using this....thanks for saving me the trouble of a lighthouse for my own campaign - if/when my players make it out of the interior of the kingdom and along the shoreline

[Deleted User] · May 2017

A very high compliment, thanks Lorelei

ScottA · May 2017

Very nice. Especially fun to see it from start to finish.

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Thanks Scott, you are all being awfully nice.

Dogtag · May 2017

Looks neat!. You might want to apply EDITSHADING to the north half of the roof, though. It looks like the shingles — on the half only — are upside down?

I'm picturing an Errol Flynn-esque swordfight on that staircase! I also love maps, like this one, that show the roof in relation to the rest of the map because, frankly, my players seem to have quite a few rooftop fights. :-))

~Dogtag

HadrianVI · May 2017

Great job, Quenten. It looks really nice and realistic!

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Now for the top floor. Working on rocks now, Sue!
Edited to reflect no windows in the back walls - see my note below

Dogtag · May 2017

"Bright light! Bright light!"

[Deleted User] · May 2017

I have to remove the windows at the back, and alter the lighting to reflect that. i don't think the villagers would appreciate the light on them all night. No flashing or rotating lights here - this is medieval tech, after all.
Dogtag, do you think the light is too bright?

Dogtag · May 2017

Too bright? For a lighthouse? Is that even possible? LOL. No, I was just quoting Gizmo, the mogwai from the 1984 movie, Gremlins.

[Deleted User] · May 2017

Yes, of course. Silly me!

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