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  • Style Suggestions for Annuals

    Looka like we posted threads concurrently! Your Mesoamerican overland and dungeon requests would work well with my Jungle Adventurers suggestion. I would love Greco-Roman stuff. And I’ve been musing on designing a haunted house for Halloween, so your 1920s Horror House idea works wirh that. I love all of your suggestions but those were the ones I wanted to second.

    JulianDracos
  • [WIP] Community Atlas - Eknapata Desert

    Thank you! Here's how it looks with the effects changes. And I've standardized the font sizes to three: 10 points for country names, 5 points for the three major cities, and 3.5 pts for everything else.


    Loopysue
  • Chotlan - Meso American little town

    Love the use of magic on the temple and the flames at the arena

    Ricko Hasche
  • Are gift certificates available?

    Last year, I asked about the availability of gift certificates (my very first post, actually), and it was suggested to buy what you want to gift and then instead of registering it, forward the email with the registration code to the recipient.

    It's a good solution for those of us familiar with the site mechanics and know what we want to gift. It doesn't really work, though, if the buyer doesn't know what the recipient already has or would want to get, or if multiple people might want to gift something to the same recipient but were risking buying the same thing. (I am greedily thinking of myself as the recipient, and how people always ask me what I want...and how would I explain this process to folks who don't use ProFantasy?)

    Anyway, I wanted to revive this idea well enough before the holidays to see if ProFantasy had the ability and resources (knowing that there are many priorities competing for scant time) of creating a gift certificate option.

    Thank you!

    Ricko Hasche
  • [WIP] Atlas Contest (potentially) - Arbor Hollow (summer, autumn, winter, spring)

    Here's a bit more for the summer version of Arbor Hollow. I've added some pine and deciduous trees (wanted them scattered enough to still show the terrain changes over the seasons). Also added label numbers and a legend. Just noticed, though, that I've forgotten to draw in the stone bridge and cliff shadows. Anything else I should address?

    Hoping to get this submitted tomorrow because I'm not sure how much time I will have this weekend to work on it. If things go well tomorrow, I might have a chance to do some of the other seasons, but there isn't the same deadline for those since I will only be submitting Summer for the contest.

    Loopysue
  • [WIP] Atlas Contest (potentially) - Arbor Hollow (summer, autumn, winter, spring)

    Here's Autumn. Each grass section has moved a shade drier. The evergreen pine trees remain green, but the deciduous trees have changed to oranges, reds, and yellows -- except for a few that have already lost all of their leaves and just have barren branches standing over piles of leaves. Oh, and I changed the cartouche as well.


    Loopysue
  • Sticky Note Dungeon - the evil Wizard Skullifogus

    Thanks for this - it is likely to help me design better dungeons.

    That’s a good point that I hadn’t thought about. When I’m designing a new map, I often draw polygon blobs on a temporary sheet to get a sense of what I want to do, and what goes where. This would be a fun way to sketch out a rough layout.

    C.C. Charron
  • [WIP] Haunted Mansion

    I made the changes that you recommended, Sue, and it appears to work on-screen. I was able to move the light sources for the four stained glass windows on the sides of the church to a point where the lights look normal. Here's a screengrab.

    But something weird is happening (which is why I had to do a screengrab instead of saving an image). Whenever I go use "save as" to create a JPG or PNG image of the map, it crashes during the first pass of rendering as soon as it reaches the "Lights - End" sheet. It does that regardless whether I am trying to save an image of the entire map or just a rectangular section of it.

    I just did a test and turned off the RGB Matrix effect on the "Buildings Low" sheet, the first sheet to have that effect on it (on the assumption that if the problem was with the RGB Matrix, it would get through the "Buildings Low" before crashing). It still crashed at the "Lights - End" sheet. Then I did another test, turning off the "Wall Shadow, Point of Light Finalize" effect on the "Lights - End" sheet, and it was able to render a JPG correctly (except it's no longer night without that effect).

    Hmmmm...?



    Ricko Hasche
  • [WIP] Haunted Mansion

    Thank you both so much! Yes, my export was set at 4 million and changing it to 40 million resolved it. Appreciate the help so much. Now to bring in the plaza furnishings from the daylight version, and then start working on floorplans.

    Loopysue
  • Manitu

    Wow, that’s really beautiful. Nicely done.

    Ricko Hasche