First Castle in DD3 for Ravenloft
I am uploading my first project using Campaign Cartographer/Dungeon Designer. I am looking for input from other CC3 users on what else I could be doing on these maps. For my first project I chose to learn by constructing a 10 floor castle as presented in the Castle Ravenloft campaign. I uploaded it to the Cartographer's Guild because the files sizes were larger than what is recommended on this site. I am having some problems getting them uploaded properly, but they are showing up if you have an account there. The link is
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?13943-ETCR-Expedition-to-Castle-Ravenloft-in-DD3
Please take a look. I would have loved to have posted directly to this site but this will work as well. I need all the advice I can get.
Thanks!
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?13943-ETCR-Expedition-to-Castle-Ravenloft-in-DD3
Please take a look. I would have loved to have posted directly to this site but this will work as well. I need all the advice I can get.
Thanks!
Comments
Are you using the checkered grass tiles outside the castle on purpose? They do look a bit weird and I'd rather use a seamlessly tiling grass pattern instead.
I have not figured out if it is possible to take an image and stretch it out, either. For instance, I would like to take a picture of an airplane photo of a forested valley and set it as the background (where the black is), and blur this for distance. I don't know if that is possible. I could be missing something obvious, I admit.
I have a game tonight and work tomorrow, but I will be posting more as soon as I can. The upper floors are nowhere near as large, but the basement layers, the last that I worked on, are large. I had become quite a bit more used to the interface by that point and was learning some neat effects by that point, so I will be excited to get feedback on those.
I will post here as soon as I get them down to a meg.
Thanks!
I will be able to do it, it is just that I have to work around my work schedule. I should have them up by tomorrow.
Thanks!
The grass showed better on the original, but after the rendering it came out in obvious tiling. I need to work on that. I would also like to have a large picture blurred out in the background (where the black is) that will provide an 'elevated' feel.
I will provide a better view of the interior castle next.
Edit: So far, this is not working very well. The files are under a meg, they seem to upload, but then they don't show up correctly, so I have deleted them I will have to try and do this when I have more time.
I took all the older maps down but will be puting new ones up. I used to use Dundjinni software but it really sucked so after years of doing that I will be using DD3 instead and PSP7.0 for touch-ups etc.
Here's a link if interested:
http://gallery.rptools.net/v/contrib/danielpryor/ravenloft-_old__temp_files/