New outside view. Tried to soften the contour lines and added some shading as the hill gets higher. Added a bench under the tree on the top of the hill. Added the chimneys with some smoke.

And now after the sun has set with some moonlight over Bag End.

As side note my first character artist image, nothing special but I did do the city ruler. Waiting on some background information to add to the image so this is still a work in progress.

@Wyvern

Thank You for your input. The aurora from my location is most of the Green or white coloring with some red when it is really active (65 degrees North) So my representation is based on that. With that said the color and type of background has a huge effect on the color of the lights more than what I expected. I still have a long way to go to get things to look the way I want them to and to get some reflections in the water during the day. Your suggestion are always welcome and helpful. I will continue to work on the project and refine I hope the lighting as that is the biggest issue right now. The other problem I have with the aurora is the upper edge is too soft but I do not know if I can fix that as there is very little control on lighting so to help with that I placed a color band under the upper lights which does help but not with sharpness.

I'm not trying to make a photo realistic image in CC3 but more a map that is more like a photo than a map if that makes sense. I guess that is part of my mapping problem I don't see thing is a fantasy setting I see things in a more realistic setting which is a draw back for mapping in some regards.

Here is an example of how much the background effects the lights.

Adjusted the Temple as I thought it was a little out of place.

I started working on converting a 30 year old hex map to a CC3+ Overland style (Spectrum Overland). I added more rivers and the mountains changed a bit but think it represents the original map.

I might need to scale down the mountains and hills.

Please let me know how to improve the map.

Original Hex Map

CC3+ Spectrum Overland

Updated daytime version. Still needs some additional work but think it is coming along. Should have the final daytime and updated night version tomorrow.

I have been working to bring the World of Endoria to life in CC3. The person I'm doing this for has been running a DND game in Endoria for 20+ years now and I'm building the map from his collection of crude pencil drawing and filling in the rest of the world as I see fit. The world is huge and it is taking longer than expected but I'm making progress. Now that the August Contest entries are completed I have been able to work on the Monster Lands and surrounding area to produce a regional map ina jpeg image as I have not broken out the region into a separate map yet.

I decided to post what I have been working on to get some feedback into what I can do better and what I maybe missing. The style is Sue's Overland Spectrum with building from Darklands.

I may post the entire map later as it is currently rough and only has some areas fleshed out but not real happy with some of those areas. So here is what I'm currently working on.

So this image just begged for this so to add the additional chimneys I had to do the floor plan.

We also had to do the night version.

Well I converted the non-hex version and found that I messed things up when I did the original so I had to fix all of the mistakes. Also during the conversion I decided to change some stuff around and I think I have a better version all around now. At some point I will readdress the original Spectrum Overland style and make some changes to it but that will be at a much later date.

Here is the Herwin Wielink Overland conversion.

Comments and suggestions always welcome.