Live Mapping: Ancient Cities

Loopysue

Hi everyone! :D

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will be trying out the latest Cartographer's Annual issue (June 2024): Ancient Cities

Come along and join in the chat here on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itl0-MKut3o

Or if you prefer you can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itl0-MKut3o

We look forward to seeing you there :)

Loopysue

30 minute shout :)

Don Anderson Jr.

Awesome session. I hope one day to be half as proficient as he is.

Quenten

I am so amazed at how quickly he puts a city together.

Hoping the updated annual comes soon, as I prefer to use metric version.

Ralf

I've updated the Annual with fixes to the drawtools and the metric version.

And here is the live map as far as I got with it in the session.

Ancient Harbour.FCW

Loopysue

Thanks Ralf :)

Quenten

The drawing units on the metric version still show feet. This screen shot is from the metric version.

However, the scale seems to be metric.

Quenten

Do I just change the measurement to meters, and NOT rescale?

Ralf

Yes, exactly. The display is simply cosmetic. I forgot to set that, sorry, but it is simply making that change in the drawing properties, with no recaling.

Quenten

Thanks.

Ralf

Also, the Annual download has been updated with that change.

amerigoV

Been getting back into mapmaking. I was pleased that I could actually Trace things on the first try when I was following along!

A collorally question. Having seen the Knockout approach used for a number of styles, has their been any thought to try it with a dungeon style? I played around with it using Shchley and found it worked pretty well if I did this:

1. Background would be the typical floor of the dungeon.
2. Add a knockout effect on the Walls sheet.
3. I really did not even have to make any tools - generally could just use normal drawing tools on the Walls sheet and it worked nicely. I especially liked I did not have to be precise - if I wanted to use a spline to link two rooms, it just have to overlap the walls. Circles and elipses worked really nice as well when connecting or expanding a room.
4. I could still use the built in tools - I could select a floor tool and either trace, or just copy a room to the floors and change the fill.if I wanted a specific section to look different.
5. I did have to move the Walls to be below Symbols - some of the effects would . Wall breaking symbols did not work well of course (breaks the fill).

Overall, it felt like a quick and easy approach for a standard dungeon.