CD3 house scales
Loopysue
ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
Are the different styles of houses in the CD3 "Bitmap A" collection in scale with each other?
The reason I ask is because if I leave the symbol scale alone when I swap between styles to get a bit of variation in a town, I get some huge differences between the general size of the thatched buildings and the gothic ones, for example - or are thatched dwellings supposed to be only about half the size of the gothic ones on average?
The reason I ask is because if I leave the symbol scale alone when I swap between styles to get a bit of variation in a town, I get some huge differences between the general size of the thatched buildings and the gothic ones, for example - or are thatched dwellings supposed to be only about half the size of the gothic ones on average?
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Do remember that you can scale buildings as you please though, the default scale is no more than a suggestion. The CD3 artwork comes in a very high resolution, so you can scale it quite a bit without problems.
Thanks Dogtag
Sorry Monsen - another simultaneous post! That's three out of three for me now.
I'm looking at these blocks and thinking - they only look strange because they don't tend to occur together all that often in the real world.
You're right though, there's lots of scope with the CD3 buildings. I've used them at an absolutely HUGE scale before now
Thanks
edit: I'm not sure we are talking about the same things.
When you check the 'show symbol size' each symbol then shows, in the symbol selector column, the size of the symbol. The gothic ones are larger than the thatch symbols.
Hmm... Welll, some are larger. I just looked at my gothic and thatch symbols for CD3.
first 3 in the thatched list are 54x40, 32x24, and 45x34.
first 3 in the gothic are: 40x30, 47x35, 45x34.
Checking the rest, some of the gothic go over 100 pixels wide, but the largest thatched is 90 pixels wide.
The majority of the thatched are smaller.