Hammerhaven in Lustrie, Imperialer Kalender 2575
Morrgans
Traveler
Hiho. I dusted off some old Anuals in order ot have an early colonial feel for the upcoming Lustria Campaign. So John Speed it is (back from 2014 or 13 or... way before the great Pest.
So it is a little crisp, even with the blur, but otherwise quite ok (I guess) for having only this week-end and I am still short on prepping hte NPCs...
It combines John Speed (most of it) with Rainessance Maps (Gouvernors Estate, Palms) and EMpire of the Sun (fill style for Sea and Large Rivers).
Cheers and Peace to you all!
And some "Here be Monsters" Monsters obviously...
And I just realised that the scaling might be a little off... as the Bürgerreihe is probably not just 50m long... anyway, details...
Comments
Well done with the various styles.
Now with a better scaling
Thank you all. I am still a little struggling with the John Speed Style... I would like to create something like the Map of Redding, especially the coloured one or the city maps of Alderdinck or Braun Hogenberg (e.g. Alderdinks Münster in Westphalen or B.H. Map of Bremen ). If you ever plan to make such a Mapping Style... I would pay a whole Annual just for this one. Cheers!
Olaf
Since the house symbols in the John Speed style are all varicolor, you can approximate to that watercolour look of your suggested real-world maps a little by judicious use of suitable colours that will still work once the all-map RGB Matrix Process effect is applied to them (trial and error, essentially). Similarly, you could draw-in polygons of suitable colours for different ground surfaces, with the same need to keep trying options.
If you felt particularly brave, you could also make your own new set of the house symbols in Symbol Manager, and edit them to have suitable coloured polygons for walls, roofs, etc., in your preferred colours, although naturally, this would be a lot of work.
Maybe if the John Speed style were to be updated at some stage, a properly coloured version, based on the styles you pointed to, could be done officially, however, which would indeed be the better option!
That art of 16th and 17th-century cartography was what inspired me to use it as a basis for drawing when I started using the program again back in 2021... and it continues to inspire me.
My first attempt was in this post https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/11614/gothic-constantinopla#latest , using the Mike Schley style, and at that time I liked the results. After that, I continued exploring the possibilities with this style and taking advantage of the successive new monthly content.