WIP: Romdril Manor

Theschabi · April 2020

The fact, that I rarely leave the house at the moment has the effect, that I open CC3 more often. This will be a modernised Version of an old AD&D Map from dragon magazine in 1986. It is the first floor of Romdril Manor, the Location of the Adventure Death of an Archmage.
I am trying to do the rooms as they are described in the adventure.
The floor of the corridors and stairs is meant to be carpeted. Is that recognisable?
There is still a good part of the building missing in the southern part of the map and the outside will be the last thing I do.

Mateus090985 · April 2020

The carpet looks nice to me. One suggestion? Create a sheet above the one that you used for the carpet and draw stains (with a heavy transparent effect). It will brake a bit more the pattern and, in my opinion, add a nice touch.

Lorelei · April 2020

Nice! I love recreating the old AD&D maps....i've been working a Tegel Manor for YEARS off and on. One day i'll finish it

Can't wait to see this finished.

Theschabi · May 2020

Good Idea with the stains on the carpet. I am still playing around with it to find a way I like.

Added a few rooms. The one with the long appendage is a gymnasium. Has anyone Ideas for symbols to go in there?

DaltonSpence · May 2020

Just a couple of “reality check” questions:

What time period is this mansion being mapped for?
When was “wall-to-wall” carpeting invented?

I think that kind of carpeting required industrial scale looms so they wouldn’t be appropriate for a medieval mansion. (Large rugs are possible but wall-to-wall? Not so much.) Hardwood or tiled floors are the way to go. “Runners” are possible for hallways but there would be flooring visible between the walls and the carpet’s edges.

Mateus090985 · May 2020

Posted By: DaltonSpenceWhat time period is this mansion being mapped for?

He is recreating a map from a RPG's Module. I dont know if he choose the carpets or if they are already in the map that he is recreating.

DaltonSpence · May 2020

I'm also curious as to why there are “cobble stone” interior walls. Exterior walls are one thing but the interior ones don’t seem thick enough to be stone built. An aligned wood fill or solid stone bitmap might be better. I do like the design however.

Theschabi · May 2020

OK, reality check questions like these were exactly what I needed. I started redoing the walls and floors, and then my CC3 died on me. The simple sollution was a reinstall. Sadly I only realised that I didn't have the Installfiles saved on my computer after I uninstalled everything. To download everything I had to wait a few days, because my Internet connection was acting up. Now everything works fine again and I can continue.

The setting is a kind of higgh fantasy setting with things like indoor plumbing existing, so it is a little hard to pin down what can be invented and waht can't be. The Scenario has carpet in almost all rooms, on the stairs and the corridors...

It is the manor of an Arch-Mage, so the walls being build with strudy stone makes sense to me.

Theschabi · May 2020

Turns out I didn't read the description propperly, so now the interior walls are made of wood.
The mages private section and the surroundings are added and I have started on the second floor.

floor 1 in higher resolution

DaltonSpence · May 2020

I'd love to see the .FCW file(s) for this. I noticed that some rooms on the first floor have different floorboard styles than the hallways. Is there a specific reason for this? (Tiled floors don't matter here, only wooden ones.) Also it might be nice if the bitmap filled vertical (north-south) walls had the fill style aligned with the wall. There is simple way to do this with the PANL command that I can explain if anyone is interested. Finally are you going to create a basement level for this mansion? (Just for the main house, the southern extension doesn't need one.) It would be a great place for hidden rooms and secret underground passages. ☺

Theschabi · May 2020

I can put the .fcw files here once I'm finished:
The diffenrent floor styles exist mostly, because I was experimenting with different styles and forgot to unify them.
The fill aligning with the wall would be nice. How does the PANL command work?

Sadly, I will not create a basement. This is a recreatoin of an old AD&D map and in the scenario there is no basement. As my main reason for aking this map is giving it to a friend who masters this adventure from time to time, it would not be a welcome addition. Although I concur, it would be a gfreat place for hidden rooms.

Theschabi · May 2020

Now the floors are basically the same. The only floors with different floorboards are the musicroom and the magical area.
The windows don't look like breaks in the walls anymore.

1st floor higher definition

2nd floor higher definition

Monsen · May 2020

Looking great.

Some of the textures, especially the carpet gets a noticeable repeating pattern though. Have you thought about perhaps increasing the scale of this fill a bit?

Theschabi · May 2020

Yes, the pattern was quite noticable. I increased the fill, but any more and it will be too pixelated. Maybe I will look for an alternative fill.
I created a layer on top of the first floor to show the roof of the building.
Now on to the labels and and small details I might not yet have noticed.

Theschabi · May 2020

OK, I made the labeling and think the map is complete now.
As I said earlier, I will put the .fcw on here. There are two .fcws. One for the Ground Floor and one for both the Roff and the upper level. The roof in the second map is on the layer "Main Roof" to be toggled off and on.
The labeling exists both in english and in german on their separate layers.

Full Mansion as a pdf (German)

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WIP: Romdril Manor

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