Town - Street View
Shessar
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This is a project that I tinker with when I have no other maps that must be done. It is a section of a street in a major town. I already posted the Cobbler Shop a few months ago, but will post it again just for continuity. I've used art from DD3, SS2, CSUAC, Dundjini User Art, and my own creations.
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Ralf, it is indeed idyllic. As a DM, we spend so much time mapping grungy dungeons, crumbling ruins, zombie infested farms, and evil temples, that every now and then it is relaxing to map something pretty and pleasant.
Glad you like it!
1. After adding the candle symbols, I draw a rough circle around the area that I think would be illuminated by the candles. Then box in the room with lines
2. After all of the candles and illuminated areas are mapped out I Multi-Poly it using either the Solid 60 or Solid 70 fill style.
3. The multi-poly is copied to a sheet just below the walls and an Edge Fade Inner effect is added.
4. I then add a yellow glow symbol to a sheet just above the floor that has no effects. (I've added the glow symbol at the end. It's a bit difficult to see, but you should be able to right click the image to save it.)
Where did you find your two fences?
This also gives the ability to make it look like light is seeping out from under doorways, and using different color glows can add eerie green glows from moss in caves, or purple glows from strange mushrooms in a spooky forest, beams of light from a magical chalice, or... you get the idea. If you would like the variety of colored glows, I'll see what I can do to make them available for download.
Ken, the fences are both from the CSUAC. If you are using the button set up that was suggested, they can be found under Structures>Barriers-Wood.
I'll set up a CC3 sample for you tomorrow. I'm a bit shot on time at the moment.
Thank you.
KigdomBuilder- Have fun looking through the older threads. I too love looking back at some of the amazing maps that have been made with this software over the years.
What is it about the walls that you like? I tend to make them thicker than they would be in life, so a line width setting of 1' rather than .5'. I also add a heavy/wide black glow around them to lift them off of the page and to darken the inside corners to add mystery. The last thing I do is to add a zero width line under those wall that I want to add a wall shadow to, making sure that the shadow will only fall on the outside of the building, since the sun would not cast a shadow on the inner walls. Hope that makes sense.
I'm going to be away from my computer most of today. When I get back I'll play with this some. This is probably a thing for jslayton or Ralf to look at because I've seen it on the forums here a number of times with no resolution to date that I'm aware of.
I have an idea for a work around...I'll be back.
EDIT TO ADD: I'm having problems with CC3+ now. My endpoint modifier will not work on paths so I cannot close a path for making a multi-poly. I'll have to get back to this later today.
The double walls is another one... and how you make them so realistic looking. Your quick explanation has me somewhat confused. I figure if I understand how you do it... then I can adapt it to what I need
@LadyStorm - I guess you are asking for a full fledged tutorial? I'll add it to my list of projects. Right now, I'm trying to finish up a few new symbols for Perspectives. It will likely be a while before I can get to it.
@Lorelei - I've played with this some and I'm sorry but cannot reproduce the 'holes' no matter what I try. This is just a random shot in the dark, but check to make sure that you don't have any effects set on the 'Whole Drawing'. If you want, you can post the .fcw in a whisper and I can take a look at it. I suspect that there is another effect causing this. I would love to figure out what other effect makes it happen because I've seen other users ask about it in the past.
I'm sort of hoping I can utilize some of these ideas for my Black Rose Inn... but I won't be starting that until after I complete Cathoulla City, and that might take a while!