Royal Scribe
Royal Scribe
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[WIP] Haunted Mansion
And here's the third and fourth levels of the church. The main part of the church is covered by a dome, but it's all open air from the balconies up. The only portions with stairs going higher than the second floor balconies are the two towers on the southern side.
Level three of the towers has a light source shining through the windows, like mini-lighthouses. I like the look of the brazier on the right, but it didn't quite make sense unless it was on the top floor (where I put bells). Even if it were something like the DND Continual Flame spell, where the magical fire emits light but not heat or smoke, it still doesn't make sense if it engulfs the inner wall of a stairwell that is continuing up. So I did an alternate version on the left side using luminescent crystals.
And then there are great bells on the fourth floor of the towers, which come from Dundjinni Archives.
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[WIP] Haunted Mansion
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[WIP] Haunted Mansion
I've mapped the balcony areas on the second floor of the church, but I can't decide which effect I prefer to obscure the outdoor and lower floor areas. I did two "Parchment" sheets, one that covered just the outdoors and another that also covered the first floor of the church. That way both would be shadowed, but the outdoors even more so.
Here it is with the regular parchment:
Here it is adding a sepia effect to the parchment (not sure it helps):
Here it is putting the Solid 30 darker fill on each of the parchment layers instead of the parchment. My only fear with this approach is that it kind of makes it look like it's nighttime, though the reflections from the stained glass show that sunlight is coming in from outside. But it does make the balcony areas "pop" a little more.
Here it is using the Solid White 30 fill for both parchment layers.
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Community Atlas 1000th Map Competition - The Winners
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[WIP] Haunted Mansion
Slight tweak. I started to work on the interiors, but as I was working on the church, I decided that I really needed to add a few belltowers because it was the only place I could work out getting stairs up to the balcony at the rear (entrance side) of the church. Added some labels while I was at it, but only on the daytime map. Maybe I will be able to get some interiors posted before the end of the weekend.