Tarkas (a border outpost)
This is my first city/town/village map in CC3+. I did some post processing in Autodesk SketchBook and Photoshop. The Wasteland background was down in SketchBook using a reptile skin brush. The grass background was done by combining several layers of color in Sketchbook then importing into CC3+ (as a PNG) for the background. The houses in the village were done with the random street tool with my own settings. The buildings inside the garrison were all done with the house tool. The style set is Jonathan Robert's Cities (The Cartographer's Annual Volume 6). Two Annual's that I really like are Volumes 5 and 6. The compass rose was made using the mobile version of Sketchbook on my Samsung 2014 tablet using the symmetry tool.
After I did this map, I discovered the displeasing patterns on the roofs I was getting was from rendering to too small of a canvas. You want to ensure that not only is DPI sufficient (I render at 300 dpi), but also your canvas size is large enough. I discovered the solution to my problem while rendering PNGs for the Melekhir map during the early stages and the roof patterns looked really bad. I thought it was a CC3 issue, but instead it was a dumb me issue. Once I upped the canvas size, the roof problem was solved. For small sections on Melekhir I render 12x12 inches at 300 dpi. If I go for a very large section of that very large map I up it a little. Actually, I have done many shots of that map at 8x12 and 6x8 sizes if I recall correctly.
After I did this map, I discovered the displeasing patterns on the roofs I was getting was from rendering to too small of a canvas. You want to ensure that not only is DPI sufficient (I render at 300 dpi), but also your canvas size is large enough. I discovered the solution to my problem while rendering PNGs for the Melekhir map during the early stages and the roof patterns looked really bad. I thought it was a CC3 issue, but instead it was a dumb me issue. Once I upped the canvas size, the roof problem was solved. For small sections on Melekhir I render 12x12 inches at 300 dpi. If I go for a very large section of that very large map I up it a little. Actually, I have done many shots of that map at 8x12 and 6x8 sizes if I recall correctly.
Comments
I like the landscape texture you produced in the southern half of the map particularly. Mind if I try to create a fill something along those lines one day?
I made the compass on my Samsung 2014 Note 10.1 tablet using the Android version of Sketchbook. See below for the PNG. Feel free to use it (and anyone else who would like).
Trying to fix the background issue and a chance discovery of SketchBook (the Android version) while on a business trip introduced me to the world of digital drawing. I ended up downloading the PC version of SketchBook and determined I had to have a drawing tablet (I bought a $50 Huion 1060+ off Amazon). This opened up the world of modifying (then making my own) symbols for use in CC3+.
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You can see the suggestion of hills. This was not planned by me, it was just a happy accident.