Bringing this back from the depths of the forum. 5 1/2 years? Hmmm, that's the age of my oldest grandkid. I have no other excuse for these years of lost time. 😁
Time to finish another half done map. Here is the current state of things.
City is finished. All that remains is to number and label points of interest. I've forgotten what I had intended for many of them, so I'll have to wrack my brain to either remember, or come up with new ideas.
"I've forgotten what I had intended for many of them, so I'll have to wrack my brain to either remember, or come up with new ideas."
Best I can suggest is to keep written notes, and then hope you can remember what they meant when you come back to them however long it may be later! 😊 I look at my notes sometimes and think, "What was that again..."
Maybe in CC4 they will have larger text blocks so we can make use of this to write down longer blurbs about what we intend to do with certain parts of our maps. Hint Hint. (I've only mentioned this a few times, be it bears worth mentioning lmao)
I typically do not add detailed notes to my Atlas maps because it is up to the DM that uses them to fit them into their own world. To me, an Atlas is just a book of maps. I do of course define what some things are, but the times I've used maps from the atlas in my campaign I rip all of that out to make the map fit my needs.
So with that said, here's this finished map. I'll post the .FCW in a day or two after I'm sure there is nothing that I want to change.
You may want to reduce the text size in the legend a little bit though. I notice how some of it basically touches the right edge, and due to the fact how true type fonts behave, they may stretch more at certain zoom levels, so having a buffer avoids the risk of the text extending over the border at those zoom levels.
The numbers don't show well on the above low resolution jpeg, but are fine on the fcw. I did tweak them a bit on the final map, so hopefully they are suitable. :)
Here's the .fcw for the atlas, whenever you have the time @Monsen . Since I'm sure that my request for this has long been deleted, the location is on Kentoria on the Shoenia map, near bottom right.
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Great map so far Shessar. Looking really good.
Bringing this back from the depths of the forum. 5 1/2 years? Hmmm, that's the age of my oldest grandkid. I have no other excuse for these years of lost time. 😁
Time to finish another half done map. Here is the current state of things.
I have some maps that are way further behind than that mere 5 1/2 years.
City is finished. All that remains is to number and label points of interest. I've forgotten what I had intended for many of them, so I'll have to wrack my brain to either remember, or come up with new ideas.
I like it, there are a whole bunch of stories waiting to be told about the map.
The farm compound, the walled in one on the small bluff. The market, dockside building, and the northern villa.
Love it when a map makes you curious about aspects of it.
"I've forgotten what I had intended for many of them, so I'll have to wrack my brain to either remember, or come up with new ideas."
Best I can suggest is to keep written notes, and then hope you can remember what they meant when you come back to them however long it may be later! 😊 I look at my notes sometimes and think, "What was that again..."
on a slightly diverging tangent.
Maybe in CC4 they will have larger text blocks so we can make use of this to write down longer blurbs about what we intend to do with certain parts of our maps. Hint Hint. (I've only mentioned this a few times, be it bears worth mentioning lmao)
Then we could make a notes layer.
I typically do not add detailed notes to my Atlas maps because it is up to the DM that uses them to fit them into their own world. To me, an Atlas is just a book of maps. I do of course define what some things are, but the times I've used maps from the atlas in my campaign I rip all of that out to make the map fit my needs.
So with that said, here's this finished map. I'll post the .FCW in a day or two after I'm sure there is nothing that I want to change.
Using the isometric symbols with the legend on the right is a really nice touch.
A very nice map.
You may want to reduce the text size in the legend a little bit though. I notice how some of it basically touches the right edge, and due to the fact how true type fonts behave, they may stretch more at certain zoom levels, so having a buffer avoids the risk of the text extending over the border at those zoom levels.
Personally I had a hard time to see the numbers on the map.
The numbers don't show well on the above low resolution jpeg, but are fine on the fcw. I did tweak them a bit on the final map, so hopefully they are suitable. :)
Here's the .fcw for the atlas, whenever you have the time @Monsen . Since I'm sure that my request for this has long been deleted, the location is on Kentoria on the Shoenia map, near bottom right.