Royal Scribe
Royal Scribe
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- Kevin
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Problem with layers
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[WIP] Villa Citri (Roman-style villa)
Okay, I have furnished the first floor. Couple of other changes, too:
- I reduced the size of the label numbers and mostly moved them outside the room (and the villa) that's being labeled. I hope it's clear enough what the number is labeling.
- I added a semi-transparent parchment sheet to semi-0bscure the exterior areas, similar to what I did when I mapped the interior of the wizard's tower. (It's a different parchment than that map, though -- the original was from the Beaumaris Castle annual and I didn't want to have the parchment be the only thing from that annual.)
- I split the Legend in half, and because they weren't showing up very well on the parchment, I placed them on a marble background. I tried different effects to really make them look etched in stone (like removing the drop shadow and changing the glow from inner to outer), but it made it harder to read, imo.
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[WIP] Villa Citri (Roman-style villa)
Still have to add windows and doors, and furniture. Wish we had some Roman couch symbols!
Figured out how to do Roman couches without resorting to symbols that couldn't be used in the Atlas. DD3 has an armless cushioned chair, so I just stretched it x3 on one axis. I know some Roman couches have a partial back on one side, and others have the armrest (or backrest?) on both sides, but unless someone can find a chair with two arms but no back, this will do. Does anyone know how they would have been oriented? I'm thinking that the riser side in this configuration would all be on the left side so that guests could lean back while facing their host on the coach that's along the eastern wall.
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CC4 Overland Development Thread
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What got you into cartography?
For me, like I guess many others, it was the maps in the Lord of the Rings.
I forgot about my early mapping influences from fantasy/sci fi literature, prior to discovering D&D. The Lord of the Rings was huge, naturally (I even had Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle Earth). And then the maps from Pern, and The Land from Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels.
But I forgot that the earliest for me was the maps from The Wizard of Oz books. I was obsessed with those books from around the ages of 7 to 10. I would draw the map from memory over and over again. I started to do a version in CC3 but got distracted by other projects. (The map is now in public domain so no copyright infringement!)
Around the same time, while our teacher was reading stories to us, I would doodle side-view maps of underground mansions inspired by an illustration from the children's book Babar and Father Christmas, which you can see on the bottom of this page:


