Sword & Sorcery Cities
Hi All,
An idle question, what symbol catalogues would the Community suggest me using for what i consider to be classic Sword Sorcery cities?
To clarify, anything non medieval, so ancient leaning towards the exotic. I already have in mind the Ancient Cities catalogue but does anything else spring to mind?
It's a project for over the Festive Season.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Comments
Depends on your style preference, of course. Ancient Cities is great. Desert Oasis may also work. Cities of Schley (Symbol Set 5) has middle eastern building symbols that could look "ancient world."
It's perhaps worth saying too that rooftops are rooftops, and haven't changed a tremendous amount over time, within a fairly limited range of forms (flat, sloping, domes/spires). In the basic City Designer 3 package you already have the option to draw your own rooftop (= house) shapes, using a variety of textures, so you can add exotic shaped pieces/materials to any ordinary roof to make them look weirder. If you'd prefer ready-made domes in a variety of colours and textures, try the bonus issue of the 2018 Cartographer's Annual, City Domes.
Don't forget too to explore the house symbols style options in CD3 anyway - Classic (loosely ancient Greek-Roman), Mideast, Thatch in the Bitmap A collection; Classic, Fantasy, Hovel and Thatch in the Bitmap B set; some of the Gothic items in both could provide some especially weird structures as well; many of the Vector symbols could be used in this regard too.
Sometimes I use (a Lot! lol) the Mike Schley Overland style in enlarged-scale compositions to generate 3D cities.
If you're interested in seeing more images to assess if it suits your needs, there are some in my older posts here on the forum and some others in my image gallery.
I'll leave one as a reference, in this time, with oriental image pack.
https://atlas.monsen.cc/Maps/Tiang%20Long%20Du
Cheers
Thanks for the responses, you have all pretty much confirmed my own thoughts and added a few things for me to investigate.
Thank you very much indeed