No, I'm talking about the internal shading of the symbols which is nothing to do with shadows and things outside the symbol. And not the mushrooms, because mushrooms don't have much of a contour when viewed from above. They are relatively flat, like little dinner plates.
But the snakes look a bit flat now its mentioned. Their bodies need to look more rounded, but that is turning out to be more of a headache than expected. In reality their bodies aren't actually that round, and some like boas are almost taller than they are wide, but with steep sides and a flatter back.
It's all a matter of having different SYMBOLS* sheets with different effects for different types of symbols. You just have to make sure each symbol is forced to the specific sheet it needs rather than the generic "SYMBOLS*" sheet.
This is partly true, Dalton. Though a lot of what a symbol looks like is controlled by what the artist does inside the artwork. On the left is the current boa symbol, while on the left is the one I'm working on in light of the flatness issue.
The rattlesnakes will be a slightly bigger problem, since they are really quite rough-skinned, so they don't have a glow down the back like a boa does.
Incidentally, if anyone is wondering how these things are made with a view to making their own snake symbols, check out the brushes top right in this shot. Affinity allows me to draw a perfectly straight snake (which looks really odd considering they never lie in a dead straight line), and then convert that image into a brush. So once the initial drawing is done I can draw the shape and apply the image to that shape.
These are the original dead straight boas used to create the snake brushes.
It works a bit like a cross between symbols along and a connecting symbol, with the central section of the snake repeated as many times as necessary to generate the length.
I think the second option is a bit too plastic looking, so I'll probably use the third version below.
The snakes and the fungi are on the same SYMBOLS LOW sheet with the same effects. This is to try and cut down the sheer number of sheets in the template, but there is no reason why you can't put the snakes on a different SYMBOLS LOW sheet - SYMBOLS LOW snakes, for example.
(I think I need to redo the pattern a bit - not a great first attempt at a boa)
Carpet snake - the aboriginals called the area northwest of Brisbane Kabool-tur Place of the Carpet Snake). Kabool being the word for carpet snake. The place is now called Caboolture. Here is a pic. They are pythons, and swallow their prey live and whole - also a pic I took of one eating one of our hens. They are non-poisonous (yes, something in Australia is non-poisonous) and very colourful.
Its jaw literally unhinges. We did let the snake finish the hen. They were good for keeping rats and mice down, and also the poisonous brown snakes didn't like them, so also kept away.
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No, I'm talking about the internal shading of the symbols which is nothing to do with shadows and things outside the symbol. And not the mushrooms, because mushrooms don't have much of a contour when viewed from above. They are relatively flat, like little dinner plates.
But the snakes look a bit flat now its mentioned. Their bodies need to look more rounded, but that is turning out to be more of a headache than expected. In reality their bodies aren't actually that round, and some like boas are almost taller than they are wide, but with steep sides and a flatter back.
This is partly true, Dalton. Though a lot of what a symbol looks like is controlled by what the artist does inside the artwork. On the left is the current boa symbol, while on the left is the one I'm working on in light of the flatness issue.
The rattlesnakes will be a slightly bigger problem, since they are really quite rough-skinned, so they don't have a glow down the back like a boa does.
Incidentally, if anyone is wondering how these things are made with a view to making their own snake symbols, check out the brushes top right in this shot. Affinity allows me to draw a perfectly straight snake (which looks really odd considering they never lie in a dead straight line), and then convert that image into a brush. So once the initial drawing is done I can draw the shape and apply the image to that shape.
These are the original dead straight boas used to create the snake brushes.
It works a bit like a cross between symbols along and a connecting symbol, with the central section of the snake repeated as many times as necessary to generate the length.
I think the second option is a bit too plastic looking, so I'll probably use the third version below.
Does this look better?
The snakes and the fungi are on the same SYMBOLS LOW sheet with the same effects. This is to try and cut down the sheer number of sheets in the template, but there is no reason why you can't put the snakes on a different SYMBOLS LOW sheet - SYMBOLS LOW snakes, for example.
(I think I need to redo the pattern a bit - not a great first attempt at a boa)
The symbols look much better to me.
Liking the snake javelins 😁
Ok. This is iteration number... well I'm not sure, actually. I've done lots. But I think it looks better than the last one I showed anyway.
I have to move on to new stuff now, though, so unless anyone really hates it I think this is the final result.
Well, there are lots of people hating snakes out there......
LOL!
Ok - unless anyone thinks they really don't look 'snakey' enough...
I think this is all of them so far. I say 'so far', but I can only add more snakes if I get to the end of the wish list and still have some time left.
To make a colourful or scary snake pit, what other types of snake would people eventually like to see in this set?
Cobra
Carpet snake - the aboriginals called the area northwest of Brisbane Kabool-tur Place of the Carpet Snake). Kabool being the word for carpet snake. The place is now called Caboolture. Here is a pic. They are pythons, and swallow their prey live and whole - also a pic I took of one eating one of our hens. They are non-poisonous (yes, something in Australia is non-poisonous) and very colourful.
Poor hen!
And now I'm trying not to work out how a snake that small can actually swallow a chicken...
Its jaw literally unhinges. We did let the snake finish the hen. They were good for keeping rats and mice down, and also the poisonous brown snakes didn't like them, so also kept away.
But it's longer than the snake!
No. I don't really want to know. I just want to stop thinking about it. LOL!
https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+head+shapes is something to look at. Venomous snakes looks very different from non-venomous ones, for the most part.
That's the most difficult bit to get right, since most reference images don't show the head from directly above.
I'm thinking of putting the inscriptions that were requested on slabs and sarcophagii lids - anything that's horizontal.
Glood and ghosts - I can do those too.
Glood is the equivalent of ghoulish blood - love it! 😆
Oops!
Still having trouble with my typos...
Other than cobra, which was been mentioned, I think rattle snake.
But with all these snakes, I think I would take Rikki Tikki Tavi with me for protection.
Rats...
Well, two rats anyway. They're about 5 feet long, but you can scale them down if you want.
I saw one about 3 feet long in a European harbor, trying to climb the rope hauser tieing our ship to the pier. That wasn't including its tail.
Yes, I've heard stories of very large rats, but I've never seen one.
I've seen normal sized rats, but not large ones like that.
Snake food
Hi Sue,
Can you do a swamp/marsh like terrain to go with the grass features. I find a sad lack of this terrain type for Dungeon maps.
Dak
Just need some saddles for those rats and the politicians will be much more mobile.
Hi Dak :)
I think people tend to draw that with grass and water, but I'll have a look at it for you :)
Oh how true, Joe...
If you want to see giant rats, go tot he Fire Swamp. You can find the ROUS there: