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  • Live Mapping: Character Artist 3

    In the chat, I asked if the style had any animal companions or familiars, and was told it doesn't. But now I'm wondering if the two Token Treasury add-ons could be used for that? I don't have those yet, so I don't know if those tokens can be used without their borders, nor whether they have suitable pet symbols. For those of you who do have the Token Treasury symbols, what do you think? Do they work well with Character Artist?

    Also, one thing not mentioned in the video that I recall: I've seen some folks here illustrate their maps with characters in the margins, like the map's villain. But I have also seen some of you create beautiful illustrations using overland map symbols to create a background for their characters. Just wanted to throw out the idea that CA can work well with other mapping styles and doesn't have to be a solely stand-alone thing.

    Don Anderson Jr.Glitch
  • Wish List: City/Dungeon Top-Down Mountain Peaks, Ridges & Crags

    Here's a super quick, super rough experiment using Darklands City as the base with 13th Age Revisited for mountain peaks. I will keep playing with it, but there's some potential there.

    Here's an even rougher experiment with Creepy Crypts. Would need to do more finessing and blending to get it to work.

    The quest continues. Meanwhile, if any symbol designers are working on cliffs for a future annual, maybe ponder whether a few ridges or peaks would make sense to include.

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • [WIP] The Griffon's Eyrie Redux: Spectrum Overland

    Here they all are, with and without the moon.


    LoopysueMonsenGlitchLorelei
  • [WIP] The Griffon's Eyrie Redux: Spectrum Overland

    Here's the daytime with the redrawn water:

    And here it is at night with a kludgy crescent moon. I couldn't find moon symbols in Cosmographer that I really liked, so this is a public domain image from NASA. It's a full moon, but then I put the SOLID 80 fill on top of the entire moon on a sheet called MOON PHASE. Then I added the Color Key Cutout effect to that sheet and drew a circle with a width of 10 over the part of the moon that I wanted to show, so that it would cut out the portion of the SOLID 80 that I didn't want. Still not sure I even want a moon in this map, but the moon symbol, phase effects, and lighting effect are all on a MOON layer so it's easy enough to hide it.


    LoopysueQuenten
  • [WIP] The Griffon's Eyrie Redux: Spectrum Overland

    Made some adjustments, including (if this doesn't step on any toes) changing it to be a wyvern's eyrie. Fixed some trees on the wrong sheet, and decided to change the sea at the base on the cliffs so that's it's only off to one side, with jungle on the other side.



    Adjusted the nighttime one, too. Previously, I mimicked night by adding the SOLID 30 fill over everything. This time I used lighting effects instead with a 65% ambient light. That allowed me to add a little extra light over the eggs. It's subtle, maybe too subtle to notice (though it's a bit more apparent when compared to a version that has that turned off). I had a moon but I didn't care for it, so I removed it. Does anyone know if there are crescent moon symbols? My campaign world has three moons, but I wouldn't want them to always all be full.

    Here it is with the galactic night sky.

    And just so you can see it with and without the extra light over the eggs, here's a side by side comparison with the light symbol sheet hidden and unhidden.


    LoopysueDon Anderson Jr.QuentenRalfMonsenWyvern