The hermitage of Brechan the Silent. I used Scott's Celtic Houses - I very much want to do a whole village using these. Obviously, the surrounds are not yet done.
i have made a lot of progress over the last 2 days, I think I am on a roll. The patron saint of the monastery is of course St Donald the Perfect Caller.
Sort of. Here is the latest version of the city. Cliffs, farmyards and river to be tidied along with background - the next few days. then the last of the buildings, outside the walls in the east is next to last, finally text and editing. Because of that last, could some suckers, ahem, I mean kind souls, look over it with a critical eye to point out deficiencies. Large version of Dun Fingolfin (13,000 x 8,000)
Man, that is one detailed city! I really like it, Quenten. I don't really have a good critical eye, especially when it comes to city mapping, so I'll just say it looks great!
Mmmm - lots of tidying to do in the farmlands, even the ones I did much earlier. Over the course of mapping this city, my mapping skills have definitely improved, and I am getting fussier. The file is only 14 MB, and the 13000x8000 only 79MB, so still reasonable. With everything on including all effects, it takes only 6 mins to load!!
I hope so. If I can do it on my laptop, you should be able to do it on your new desktop, which seems to have better specs than mine. For the others, a can opener should do the trick.
Quenten, this is fantastic. I am so excited for this! but oh....look at my beautiful queen....too bad she's dead. Things have turned dark and tragic in the realm and our queen was assassinated and found hanging from the bridge leading to the castle.....
Nobody as of yet.....it remains the same family. However, at this moment, key members of the reigning family have been assassinated all over the realm. The big baddie in my campaign is a cult trying to assist their demon lord in becoming a god who is now strategically placing members of the family they managed to sway to the dark side in their positions. It's all rather game of thrones, really, lol. I am a devious, dark DM, you know
I have at last finished all the buildings. I have tried to make most areas interesting. I like adding portraits using Character Artist To do list: 1.Text 2.Cliffs, using my favoured style 3. River edge 4.Background areas 5.Go over whole map to correct the inevitable flaws 7.Write up description of each district -function,types of buildings and highlights. The longest will be 5. I hope to have 1 and 2 done by tomorrow.
A mixture of street tool, and individual placement - I finish up moving much of the street placement anyway. But at last that job has finished, and i am already halfway through the text.
I am now up to redoing all the cliffs. I have here an easier way to do them - is this OK, and what would you want done differently. I will be able to do spurs, and add more shade whrer the cliffs turn away from or towards the sun at the very end. Ignore everything except the cliff
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Obviously, the surrounds are not yet done.
The patron saint of the monastery is of course St Donald the Perfect Caller.
The monastery has a very believable layout.
Did you base it on a real monastery?
Here is the latest version of the city. Cliffs, farmyards and river to be tidied along with background - the next few days. then the last of the buildings, outside the walls in the east is next to last, finally text and editing. Because of that last, could some suckers, ahem, I mean kind souls, look over it with a critical eye to point out deficiencies.
Large version of Dun Fingolfin (13,000 x 8,000)
I really do love the detail that you put in this. It's really quite incredible.
Better send me a pic of the flag and portrait of the usurper or whoever holds the city.
To do list:
1.Text
2.Cliffs, using my favoured style
3. River edge
4.Background areas
5.Go over whole map to correct the inevitable flaws
7.Write up description of each district -function,types of buildings and highlights.
The longest will be 5. I hope to have 1 and 2 done by tomorrow.
Large version of Dun Fingolfin (10,000 x 6,000)