I'm creating a regional map for another monthly challenge at the CG, where I'm mapping a quest. I have to depict a quest in my map. My quest is for the Zjed'Un Diamond. Only problem I have so far... no diamond, or gem symbol. Any ideas on where to look?
I notice most of the overland styles have gem hoards, and not an individual gem, but if you can use a vector symbol (apply some effects, and they can be quite nice), you have one in the CC2 Pro Filled Borders catalog.
Dogtab and Sue, those are some really nice crystals, but they aren't quite what I'm looking for, although they will work if I can't find anything else.
Remy, I will look at what cc2 pro has, and see if there is something there I can work with.
I'm just working on a 3D rendering of a diamond from Blender. Not sure how useful it will be to you or anyone else, but it will be partially transparent - more an ethereal description of the gem by its refractions and reflections. That means the colour will be more in the background you put it on than anything else, but it would help if I knew roughly what colour background you were going to put it on.
For example, diamonds look white on a white background, red on a red background, and black on a black background. Blue diamonds have colour of their own (we call them sapphires), and there are other colours of diamond as well.
So - name your colour (since rendering them out takes hours! LOL!)
lol... I'm looking for a black diamond actually, and if you look at my quest map, in the hidden valley with the golden forest, you will see a temple up in the mountains north of the city. That is where the diamond will be found. Or actually a cave that's behind the temple :)
I got a black one here, but still don't know if its the right angle or shape
As with above - the first image is the symbol, the second image is the symbol shown on a solid background (and no use in CC3). So if you want them its the first image you want in each case.
Image to use - above. Demonstration of black diamond on white background below.
And its working for me now, but I had to delete them from the Symbol Manager and the map, and then save and close CC3, then reopen it and reopen the new symbol catalogue I made for myself.
Now that is just SO weird!
I must have been doing something wrong.
Thanks for doing that Lorelei, and you're welcome :)
I hope to make a more variable set of them sometime.
hey, sorry, had an appointment at unemployment (i was recently laid off from my job)..... I saved the symbol in my "my symbols" folder that i have in CC3+'s Symbols folder itself, opened up an existing map, and dropped it on a symbols sheet. Nothing special.
If you aren't making a symbol catalogue it won't be set up to appear automatically on a particular sheet or layer. Is it possible, by some remote chance that you are plopping it down on a sheet and/or layer other than the one you intend it to be on?
EDIT: Sorry to hear about your job, Lorelei. I just lost mine as well, but it was only ever a temporary position - not something I'd been doing for years.