Making Hills, Plateaus, Etc., with DD3

earwicker7 · December 2011

I'm making my first DD3 dungeon, and the entrance area is a transition from a wilderness area to a temple. The indoor stuff seems pretty easy so far, but the video tutorials don't seem to cover much as far as the exterior goes. I want it to be a path which is between some cliffs, so think of a less extreme version of the Grand Canyon... there need to be different levels of elevation, and it would be great if the plateaus had some topographic cues. Any hints?

JimP · December 2011

Have layers for each contour is what I do. Along with a different color for each elevation. My above sea level contours are at 2500 feet increments.

Ralf · December 2011

If you want to do some visual cues other than colors, I'd suggest creating a series of "OUTSIDE X" named sheets and put one polygon of terrain background on each. Then give each sheet a dark inner glow, or a soft bevel effect. Do you have Symbol Set 2? If yes, the included example map has some cliffs that you could check how they are set up.

earwicker7 · December 2011

JimP... I'm talking more about a small area, probably no more than 250' x 200', so it's more of a 1"=5' scale.

Ralf... I do have Symbol Set 2, I'll have to check that out.

Thanks to the both of you!

JimP · December 2011

I do the same for small hills with towns on top.

How you do your maps is up to you.

alp · December 2011

You could try this walkthrough - although designed for a regional map, you should be able to adapt it to fit your needs.

Alp

earwicker7 · December 2011

Can you mix CC3 and DD3 on the same map without having to readjust the scale on everything? It seems like the scales are radically different for an overland map and a dungeon map.

JimP · December 2011

Yes, they are scaled for the type of map.

So overland symbols ni a dungeon would be huge, dungeon symbols on an overland map would be small to tiny.

You can resize them. Select a symbol, right click. On the popup, change the scale size of that symbol.

All symbols will stay that size until you change it on that map.

Dogtag · December 2011

Alp, did you include a link to the walkthrough you mentioned? If so, it didn't come out as a link. Could you please repost it?

Many thanks,
~Dogtag

alp · December 2011

Sorry - I thought I had included the link. It is done by Patrice Dumas and I thought it produced an exceptional map. Great for ideas.

http://www.patoumonde.com/Maps/Valedalewalkthrough.pdf

Alp

BOHICA · December 2011

Very nice tutorial Alp! Thanks!

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