Cliffs on a City Map

Evilref

I'm trying to get cliff edges to look half-way decent on a city map I'm doing featuring an island-based city (think venice) with a lot of waterways. There's an excellent example on an old dungeon/D&D map I've attached below.

Less exact but potentially workable is the linked to map below:

http://www.cartographersguild.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=22383&d=1266982361


Any ideas on how to get something approaching the above (ideally the first one)?

Anoril

Great!
I was looking for such a result and I did not know how it should look like!
Thanks for sharing!
How to get that result, I don't know yet, but the effect is great! I'll take time to try this out...

Paul

Simon Rogers

Use a fill style for the cliff, then the grey smudges could be solid filled black polys which are then blurred and made transparent.

Evilref

Thanks for that Simon, I'll play around and see how it turns out.