Live Mapping - City Floorplans

Monsen

Time for a new live mapping session.

Since we have a competition going this month, I will be starting on a floorplan from the city, and let us just see how far we can get.

https://youtu.be/H08WVibeb7k

Will go live on Thursday at 1800 hours CET. As usual, if you are logged in, it should be listed in your local time in the forum sidebar, if not, you're probably smart enough to figure it out :)

Loopysue

20 minute shout! :)

Monsen

So, I have spent some more time finishing up my tiny little smithy from the video, so here are the current state of the maps.

Loopysue

Nice work, Remy :)

I think those coal heaps look better on the SYMBOLS FLAT sheet. They always look like they are floating to me when they have a shadow on them.

DaltonSpence

The doors to the smithy would be wide open during the day because it gets hot in there! (And since the forge burns really hot carbon monoxide might be a problem.) Also the inside coal heap should be against the back wall (it's tricky to work around otherwise) with the dunking bucket on the other side of the anvil. Finally an outside chimney shared by the forge and fireplace would be a good idea. (I've noticed that people seem to forget that fire produces smoke when they are drawing up these floorplans.)

Monsen

The chimney is already in my head and planned. The doors are closed out of lazyness, because then I don't have to deal with the transition between the floor and the street.

But yea, I should really move that coal heap, shouldn't I. Maybe the blacksmith is lazy like me... "Yea... Just dump it there... I am going to have burned through it soon enough anyway...."

Monsen

Updated versions

DaltonSpence

Looking at the coal pile got me thinking: could a color key on a SYMBOLS sheet blank out part of a symbol? That way part of a coal pile could be placed against a wall without me needing to create new symbols for it.

Monsen

Only if you disable Delayed Drawn Symbols [DELAYDRAWSYM]

Loopysue

In practice, you don't want to stack coal up against a building unless you don't care if it leaves a black stain on the wall. We still have black stains on the old garage wall where the coal bunkers were standing 50 years ago.