Winter Trail Project
Loopysue
ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
Hi Everyone :)
Just a quick note to say I haven't forgotten the several comments about wanting a winter version of Forest Trail. Winter Trail is under way.
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Frosty pine and grass, and a few bare shrubs. The heathers are yet to be done.
Oooh ! Fabulous !
Thank you, Jim! :D
That's just freakin' gorgeous!
Thank you! :D
Not bad, Sue, not bad. (Did you like my attempt at effusive British praise).
Or as an Aussie would say, Bloody marvellous, mate!
LOL!
Thanks Quenten :)
How about snow covered fallen trees or logs?
We'll see.
I think I'm done with the heather and grass.
I've also done some ice effects with existing fills from Winter Village last year.
Not much time left to finish this now, so there may not be everything in this one part style that there was in both parts of Forest Trail.
And the cliffs...
(The bridge isn't done yet ;) )
These are amazing!
The lower cliff edges could perhaps do with something to help them "sit down" in the terrain better; they have rather too crisp an edge currently, whereas in reality, there'd be some snow drifted or fallen around the base to make the edge a bit more irregular.
Thank you, Ale :)
Good point, Wyvern. I think a line of snow with an EFI placed there would be good.
Got the stones sorted out as well now. Quite a good day, really :)
Like this, @Wyvern ?
I've had to change the order of the sheets a bit so the shadow is on top of the cliff and enabled me to put the CLIFF blend sheet between it and the cliff symbols.
That's a definite improvement, Sue, though it still looks a little regular as a baseline to me. Actual snow tends to drift in some places and not others, often quite near one another, though that may come down to how the base cover is drawn (assuming it's a polygon that's doing the work), perhaps following the basal cliff features more closely.
My problem with the rocks is that the snow on the rock is too flat no texture, That would be fine if the ground cover was also completely covered in snow but that is not the case. There should be more texture in the snow on the rocks and the larger rocks need some of the rock showing through the snow more to match the other ground terrain objects.
Looking forward to this set of symbols but in real life I'm soooo tired of SNOW!!
Wyvern - It's a polygon on a sheet with an EFI, so it can be drawn with as much or as little detail as you like.
Jeff - Yes, it is a bit flat. I hope to be able to go back to them if I have time.
There's something prowling around at the stones, so better not go out today.
I think it is a bear with one foot.
Well, doesn't look much like the tracks for Winnie the Pooh and Piglet... Maybe a Woozle? 😎
Both wrong, I'm afraid, but the suggestions were funny :)
Getting close to finished here. Until now I've been working on a conversion of my Forest Trail part 2 example map, but now I've started a simpler example map to tweak things like drawing tools that aren't working right, and symbols that don't go to the right sheet.
Oh yes. That animal track was meant to be a big cat, but there were several things wrong with it including that I made the mistake of judging the size of the prints against a 10 ft grid that I thought was a 5ft grid. Now that I've sorted it out it looks a lot better ;)
But just because it's not a great cat track I've called it 'Beast' instead of 'Cat'.
Bigfoot. But Wyvern is definitely correct - it is the dreaded Woozle, relative of the Heffalump
Well, I finished the more simple map as one of the example maps, and I think it shows the style more clearly. One of the other examples is a conversion of Ranger's Hill from Forest Trail part 2. It should be reasonably easy to convert Forest Trail maps to Winter Trail maps.
Winter Trail is due out as the March issue this year.
Both of my example maps can be viewed at much higher resolution in my New Style Example Maps gallery.
The hole in the ice definitely looks better in the high rez.
You probably don't have time to do this, but looking at the waterfall got me thinking. There is a lot of ice that forms around waterfalls. Some on the cliff face and others on any nearby trees. Is there any way to make icicles to place around the waterfall or other places?
Thanks Julian :)
And you're right - the assets have been handed over so Ralf has time to do his bit of magic making it all work properly for you. Myabe if I have time I might do something, but I've just started a new much larger project so I don't know when that might be.
...I've just started a new much larger project ...
A statement at which much idle speculation can begin among the rest of us...