Community Atlas - Demosthenes Swamp
HadrianVI
Surveyor
So, today I've started with the Demosthenes Swamp map and this is what I have so far.
I used the Mike Schley Style as basic template, added HW water textures and Jon Roberts Symbols.
I used the Mike Schley Style as basic template, added HW water textures and Jon Roberts Symbols.
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What do you think?
And thank you, Quenten, for the advice, with which I totally agree.
I think I'm nearly done here. If there are no further suggestions, I'll make a few tweaks and hand it in tomorrow.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
I handed the map in. But I did not add any further settlements or names, because they wouldn't fit in unless I made further changes to the map.
Thanks to a handful of dedicated mappers, we now have a great start for our atlas, but I am still hoping that more of you will join in. There are still an untold number of areas, cities, dungeons and so on that needs a map.
I just wanted to check in. I have been around too often in the past week because I was busy dealing with my workload.
Also, I finally bought myself a graphic tablet and therefore I did not spend the same amount of time with mapping as I would have otherwise.
But when I tried out digital painting I still did something related to mapping: I tried to make a picture of Demosthenes Swamp. This is the first picture I've drawn with a tablet and I'm aware that there's still room for optimization.
However, I hope you guys like it anyway.
I might not be very active in the next couple of weeks, but I'll still look by from time to time.:)
Quenten - I hesitate at your suggestion. You see, I tend to generate a lot of artwork for every map I draw. Maybe if we start adding paintings to the Atlas there should be a limit of no more than one per map? I don't know.
Sorry for any offense!
Well, I think the best way to include other media into the atlas would be adding it to the pdf description. This way people don't have to deal with a lot of additional files that are somehow connected to the fcw file of the atlas but they can download the pdf if they want it.
Anyway, I think Sue has a point here - it is and is supoosed to be an Atlas and as such, it should before anything else contain maps. Having said that, I am aware that I belong to the worst offenders in this regard. But I did not mean to create any compulsion to add more materials to the atlas other than content created with Profantasy Software. I just wanted to show you guys what I've been doing during the last week when not either working or mapping.:)
As HadrianVI mentioned, artwork can also be placed within the description pdf, but please do note that the description is also embedded din the map, and that is a text-only format, so don't make a pdf that depends on graphics (or formatting) to give meaning.