advice on main a city map

splithead · June 2013

i am trying to build a ruined/abandoned desert city with a crater either in the middle or in one of the outer quarters. i just cant seam to get it right with the cc3 programs i am using (Campaign Cartographer 3, city designer 3, and the 2007 anal) any advice or help gratefully accepted

JimP · June 2013

I would draw the crater, then the city around it.

Please post a png of your map so far and we can help.

Henrie61 · June 2013

JimP beat me to it :-)

And which anual exactly are you using?

Joachim de Ravenbel · June 2013

What about using a shading png over the ground to suggest the crater?

Mateus090985 · June 2013

Nice suggestion Joachim. But for me, the image looks more like an elevation tahm a crater. Maybe it is the effects used?

Joachim de Ravenbel · June 2013

Posted By: Mateus090985But for me, the image looks more like an elevation tahm a crater. Maybe it is the effects used?

No effect in use here. Well, shading can always go both ways unless you know where the light comes from.
I hope that when all the other objects will have shadows going the other way, the crater will look hollow...

Mateus090985 · June 2013

Strange. Now it looks a crater for me

. Did you changed the image?

Joachim de Ravenbel · June 2013

Posted By: Mateus090985Did you changed the image?

Nope. Its something like a cube in isometric view. Sometimes it looks like it's a closed, solid cube, and if you look at it from another point suddenly you look inside the cube at the far corner.

JimP · June 2013

Posted By: Mateus090985Strange. Now it looks a crater for me . Did you changed the image?

Known optical illusion. Look at some photos of the Earth's moon's craters. Turn the picture 90 degrees. The craters will 'change' so they look like mounds.

splithead · June 2013

ok answerin question in turn

jimP i was thinking the same and i have attached the work out map so far very unfinished
Henrie61 i was just listing the resources u have at hand
Joachim de Ravenbel nice little image you idea also good

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