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  • Grimdark Fantasy (renamed "Darklands") - development thread

    I want to say "looking good", but I'm not sure that's an appropriate comment, even if the sentiment's right ?

    JimPLoopysue
  • My Ship Obsession: Ship 1 - The Sea Wyvern

    I could scarcely let the name pass without comment!

    Wasn't familiar with this, but checking around online, I gather Savage Seas was originally a series of linked adventures published in Dragon magazine in 2006-2007 for D&D. It's taken a lot of digging around, but I think the blurry map of the Sea Wyvern you mentioned, and which seems to be that shown online in places, was originally published as a loose poster-sized map in Dungeon #141, so was presumably much clearer that way. Sadly, I don't have a copy of the magazine to confirm, however!

    It looks as if there were other ship plans published for some of the other vessels encountered during this campaign, judging by what I chanced-upon online (as low-res images, or simply from comments made), and I did come across what seemed to be an online conversion of the whole campaign to Pathfinder as well, but that seemed to have few images overall - aside from a blurry Sea Wyvern drawing, much as I imagine you were working from.

    Nice-looking drawings, by the way!

    DaishoChikara
  • My Ship Obsession: Ship 1 - The Sea Wyvern

    If you're wanting help drawing ship plans @Autumn Getty you might try the Sailing Ships style pack in the March 2009 Cartographer's Annual. I was using it myself recently, though it does lack some things, such as chains and anchors, ropes and ship's boats, all of which would have been useful as additional symbols. It does let you draw vertical cross-sections through a ship as well as deck plans, however.

    Autumn Getty
  • Grimdark Fantasy (renamed "Darklands") - development thread

    The orc structures look great too, and that volcano's virtually real. That's very much the classic fire-fountain!

    LoopysueJimP
  • Printing maps with a Parchment Appearance

    @Monsen makes an interesting point regarding your printer dialogue boxes. A quick check online suggests the HP4650 series printers seem to have had repeated issues printing in colour, sometimes where another printer is also installed on a given computer, and others where the problem seems to have been solved only by reinstalling fresh printer drivers downloaded from the HP website. I don't know if this is what's happening here, but it may be worth checking some of the online HP information sources just in case.

    I've occasionally had problems printing directly from CC3+ before, often where fills don't come out looking right (texture becomes patchy, but still the right colour), for instance. So now I just do what Sue already suggested, prepare a .jpg, and then print that.

    Loopysue
  • WIP Large Area, small village and battle maps. For a viking-ish Trudvang campaign

    Something odd and glowing in the centre, perhaps - something apparently out of place, say? Or maybe an odd animal that doesn't scare off as the players approach? Or perhaps some kind of offering - old flowers, oddly tied rags, something unusual made of sticks, a symbol of some kind? Important places often attract small tokens being left in profusion (someone starts and everyone else copies) in the real-world, so maybe something similar here might work - try looking up "clootie well" online, for more ideas.

    Loopysue
  • My take on Judge's Guild Blackmoor

    JG Campaign Map One is probably he most detailed of any (i.e. more place-names), and I think because those of us of a certain age and/or association with D&D and JG started out with City State of the Invincible Overlord, this is THE campaign map that ties together all the items in that original pack - The City itself, the surrounding terrain (including the explanation for why the City's on a huge estuary, but nowhere near the sea!), Thunderhold, and the explanations for a lot of place-names and places that feature in the City descriptions without any strong idea of where they were in relation to the City. And Tegel village, so you know the Manor's just over there too!

    I still get a thrill just seeing the names again, for all it's been nearly 40 years since I last gamed there!

    [Deleted User]pkfrye
  • Live Mapping: Mercator Historical

    Well, just caught-up with the video finally tonight, and another good one.

    I think I learnt more about using CC3 (as it then was) by playing around with this one style than pretty well any other single thing (other than Joe Sweeney's excellent tutorial videos) when I was starting out with the program. The discovery of multiple Sheet symbols was a real revelation as to some of the things the different Sheet Effects could do for you even when NOT using them with symbols, for instance. Plus of course it also teaches you some of the important basics, like the Trace command (from simply following the instructions in the PDF mapping guide with this CA issue).

    Learning about the vector symbols in this style is valuable too, I think, as the style - using simple, black, straight-edged polygons and a colour that will be faded almost away - is very easy to master and then create your own symbols similarly. This was great news for someone without significant (i.e. any!) real artistic skills.

    LoopysueRalf
  • Most of my sheets won't show effects

    Do you still have the MERGE Layer (not Sheet) in your map, not hidden or frozen? Effects won't work without it being on and active, as far as I recall.

    Otherwise, hopefully someone more technically savvy will charge to your rescue!

    Loopysue
  • Cosmology

    When I needed to add rings for a couple of the planets on the Nibirum Solar System Chart for the Community Atlas, I just used angled lines of a suitable thickness to be seen still, and the line-length correct to-scale for their sizes compared to the planetary discs. As the Cos3 planet symbols with belts in the atmosphere are seen side-on, this seemed a suitable compromise.

    It would be possible to go for a more artistic endeavour, showing the rings partly open, but this will occupy more space on the drawing, and I had enough problems just fitting the lines on my effort! It will also make a mess of showing the planetary moons as you have them now, of course.

    Loopysue