X8 - Drums on Fire Mountain.....first post in a looooooong time

anomiecoalition · October 2013

Hey all....real life has kept me super busy so haven't been able to do much mappin lately. Had some free time and decided to recreate a small map from the old-school d&d adventure "Drums on Fire Mountain" (X8). Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are always welcome....thinking about doing another version with CC3 lighting effects.

I also have a full res version on my blog (http://drunkennerdery.com/2013/10/09/x8-drums-on-fire-mountain/)

KenG · October 2013

Looks great. What is that cool font?

anomiecoalition · October 2013

Thanks man...its called "epistolar"...the adventure has sort of mayan/aztec kinda feel to it so I thought the font worked.

Joachim de Ravenbel · October 2013

Love it. Can't wait for the lighted version

And yes, the font is cute too...

anomiecoalition · October 2013

Here's an encounter map for this adventure (labeled T2). The unsuspecting PCs encounter a Tarantella hiding in the stump

Eugee · October 2013

That cut-out style is just beautiful. Did you use a Multi-Poly for make the walls, or just draw in big blocks?

anomiecoalition · October 2013

Thanks...yeah I do all the line work and then Multi-Poly

Mateus090985 · October 2013

Lovelly map! Yuor skills just keep growing!

Eugee · October 2013

That's so awesome. For some reason I can never get my multi-poly cut-outs to turn out that good. So you put down all your floors, copy and move them aside, draw a big wall block over it all and multi-poly, right?

What invariably happens when I do that is there will be a spot where two of my floor pieces meet that don't play nicely, and the multi-poly freaks out over them. If they are the same texture, no big deal, delete one and just edit the old one to tack on the next floor; but when I want two different textures I get very frustrated with it.

anomiecoalition · October 2013

Yeah...even after playing with this program for a year I still fight the urge to break my computer when the multi-polys start acting up

It doesn't happen any less with time, but I do seem to be able to find and fix the problem quicker now.

I actually created a little tutorial awhile back for my cutout method...its somewhere on these forums (not sure where)...but you can also find it here. http://drunkennerdery.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/getting-a-subterranean-look-in-cc3-tutorial.pdf