(WIP) City of Mok Torkan

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Hello everyone.

I've been trying to work on building an isometric city using Mike Schley's overland style. I got the city built but I haven't labelled any of the important buildings yet. After I do that then I plan on adding in some things like forests and scrub around the city walls. I call it the City of Mok Torkan

Enjoy

cobra mustang · December 2016

Nice work.. One of these days I need to grab all the isometric stuff. Just love that style of mapping.

[Deleted User] · December 2016

What a great city

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Thanks guys. Glad you like it.

This stuff comes with the regular cc3+ overland style, so you can do it right now, without the perspectives 3.

So I have finished the map, and decided against adding too much stuff to the outside. It just made it look too cluttered. So I added ten spots of interest, some animals and a few trees and I'm calling it good.

Enjoy

[Deleted User] · December 2016

I think your map is cut off on the right hand border - cannot find nos 4 and 8. But it looks terrific

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Thanks again qwalker. Those numbers are over by the tower on the right hand side with the orange roof.

I'm going to try all of the other buildings in the Mike Schley overland style to see if I can pull this off with those as well.

cobra mustang · December 2016

Yea those numbers get lost in the road. Very hard to see.

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Now the real question is could you spot the goat? :P

Lorelei · December 2016

Excellent map!!! I love this! And....i've seen "the goat"

Loopysue · December 2016

I found it as well, though I admit I had to go and look at the one at the Guild

Brilliant map, Tonnichiwa

Its nice to see people experimenting and pushing the boundaries.

Dogtag · December 2016

This is outstanding, tonnichiwa! It looks a lot like some of the RPG city/town maps that Mike Schley has actually done for D&D. CharlesWayneRobinson used the Schley overland style similarly on a lot of his larger, overland maps, to great effect, and now you seem to have brought it home to an actual city map. It looks fantastic!

The first person I know of to do something like this with overland map styles was Old Krom, who innovated the marvelous idea of making "painting-style" regional and local maps using the Herwin Wielink style (here and here, if you're interested) and now you've shown us how awesome the Mike Schley style looks up close, for more detailed, smaller areas.

I'm genuinely inspired.

Thanks very much for sharing! I am definitely going to use your technique for my own campaign.

Cheeers,
~Dogtag

Barliman · December 2016

This will expose me as an utter naif with this software, but how did you achieve that perspective effect with the Schley overland style? And this map is great: it passes my acid test, wanting to set a game there.

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

@Lorelei: Thanks! lol, glad you found the goat.

@Cobra Mustang and qwalker: I'm sorry guys, there was very little room to put the numbers and there is so much to look at in the Mike Schley icons that the numbers get lost easily. I wish there were more room around those icons but after building it up there wasn't and removing one thing can be very difficult so I just left it.

@Loopysue: Thanks again, I'm glad you found the goat too!

@Dogtag: Thanks. And those links to Krom's threads are great. Some really good ideas there. I'm glad I inspired you. Trying to get a city that actually looked like the Schley cities from the D&D books was my goal. I was really happy when I learned it was possible.

@Barliman: Well, I loaded the Mike Schley style into the new Perspectives 3 program with the intent of building walls that would surround the city. After learning that the wall styles from that supplement don't match the Schley style at all I gave up on that idea. However, while the Schley overland style is an overland style, look at it again. It is actually done in an isometric view and all of the icons of the set are actually Isometric as well. So I put them together and made some icons slightly larger in places and slightly smaller, depending on how they looked next to another icon I had already placed. I also reversed some of the icons and moved some icons closer together to get some of the crowded city look. I'm glad you like it.

Gathar · December 2016

When you see the result, it looks just so obvious! It just fits! But then I guess that getting the idea and being able to bring it to this very nice result is a totally different story

All my congratulations!

I've finally been able to find the goat. Is she named Waldo/Wally/Charlie... ?

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Thank you Gathar. The hardest part was getting all of the pieces to fit. Sometimes there are elements of each piece that won't fit where you want them too so scaling them and flipping them as well as overlapping them turned out to be essential. I have to say, without cc3+'s sheets and effects, I don't think this would have been possible. It blended things nicely.

haha...the goats name?...well I have a friend named Cherie who has an obsession with the cuteness of baby goats...so maybe I'll name it Cherie...is that close enough to Charlie? :P

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

So I thought I would try to make it black and white, and also look like a parchment to see if I liked either of them better. What do you guys think?

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

huh...the site won't let me upload the sepia version

Monsen · December 2016

Posted By: tonnichiwahuh...the site won't let me upload the sepia version

Watch the file size. The forum is configured for 2MB maximum attachment size.

Barliman · December 2016

The B&W version looks good enough to be an illustration in a quality RPG book.

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Thanks Monsen. Ok, hopefully this one works

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

I thought so too Barliman. I'm glad the options to export in gray and sepia are so easy to do.

Dogtag · December 2016

They all look really good. I like the black and white version but, for some strange reason, the sepia version seems to cause more eye strain for me. Details seem oddly difficult to discern to me with out making more effort. Hm, you'd think it'd be very similar to the b&w version but maybe there's some sort of contrast game at play for me. *shrug*

FWIW, my personal preferences are the full-color, then the black and white, and then the sepia.

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

I'm not a big fan of the Sepia map either. But I do like the black and white one though not as much as the full color one.

cobra mustang · December 2016

I was wondering if you could for test sakes. Create a new sheet for your in city number locations. Select those add them to the new sheet. Add a light colored glow around them and see if they maybe pop a bit more. If it is too strong maybe reduce opacity.

The common statement is they are a tad tough to see. Hopefully one tweak can improve the one small fault in the map.

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Ok, I tried your suggestions and they made the map look a little weird so I just decided to see if I could move the numbers. Is this better for you?

cobra mustang · December 2016

Move the 4 a touch right and a touch down and it's perfect. The spire distracts the eye and makes it look off.
The 3 still looks lost.
All the others are good.

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

alright, this should do.

Leuphana · December 2016

Hello!
Great work. I like your style.
Your gray and sepia versions are nice, B+W version looks better.
Your light colored map is the best! Only my opinion.
My works are similar.
http://forum.profantasy.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=6705&page=1#Item_1

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Thanks Leuphana. I hope to see some of your work sometime.

Shessar · December 2016

This is one of those maps that I sit staring at in awe. Wow! Just wow!

Even the mountains in the background are amazing.

This is one I'll keep coming back to for inspiration. Thanks for sharing tonnichiwa!

Tonnichiwa · December 2016

Thanks Shessar, I'm glad you will do that. I love to inspire people with what I do

I just hope I get to see what I've inspired you and Dogtag to make

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