Cave system entrance

Tallingroth

I'll kill 2 birds with one stone here. I'm making a cave system entrance and looking for some feedback as I don't see it quite as nice as some of the pros here. Also, my machine doesn't have the horsepower to render this into a jpg. It crashes every time. If someone with a more powerful machine wouldn't mind doing that for me it would be appreciated. It takes 16 minutes to make a PDF and then it doesn't come out right, but I have a different thread for that.

pdj

You'll need to say what dimensions (in pixels) you want the image. I suspect pretty huge if it's killing your machine.

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ps have you tried making a .png instead? Sometimes I've found things that won't render as jpg do ok as png.

Tallingroth

I have a 1200dpi printer so I imagine at 100'*100' with 5' per inch I'd be looking at 24000*24000.

I tried a png but it crashed as well.

Vintyri

I don't know if this will do the job you want, but here's a 1200-DPI PDF version:

http://www.vintyri.org/downloads/TempleOfErythnul.pdf (7 MB)

Joachim de Ravenbel

Can't help you for the export, my system usually crashes after 4000 wide pixels maps

The map in itself is interesting. The shadows from the boulder are a bit harsh so consider using the SUNINFO command where, in the middle of the popup, you can set the Shadow - blur parameter to 2 for example. The transparency parameter can also be used to show the details under the shadows.

When dealing with light effects, I usually duplicate the wall on a very low (in the list, thus above in the visual order) sheet. See my tutorial particularly Part 10 for more on light effects.

Tallingroth

Thanks Guys!

Actually Vintyri I was hoping for something 3 pages wide by 2 pages high so I could make a battle mat. Is that possible?

Tallingroth

It's not 100% but still looks pretty darn good. What I did was use the snipping tool to put the images into a Word Doc and expand them to fill the page.

Thanks for your help guys!