I kind of just... talked my way into it. You know?

Thanks Wyvern! :D

Why should I hate you?

They look good :)

I have to be very careful not to use AI generated art in my work. There are too many foggy areas around copyright. Everything I make for Profantasy has to be squeaky clean, for obvious reasons.

Here is the 'basic bones' list of buildings for a standard annual issue city. For 2 issues there will be quite a few more than this in the end, so suggestions for other inclusions are welcome, as well as suggestions about the look of the style.

• Huts (2)
• Houses, Rectangular (4)
• Houses, L-shape (2)
• Houses, T-shape (2)
• Houses, X-Shape (2)
• Special Buildings: Town Hall (1), Temple (1) and Villas (2)
• Tower, Square
• Tower, Round
• Tower, Square with Roof
• Tower, Round with Roof
• Bridge, Stone
• Bridge, Wood
• Bridge, Rope
• Town Wall (simple) 20' section
• City Wall (more elaborate) 20' section
• City Gate
• Wooden Pier
• Well
• Trees (3)
• Rock Outcroppings (2)

I've turned it into a bonfire and made some other fires for other kinds of things.

There will be smoke as well - when I am happy with the look of it.

There's something prowling around at the stones, so better not go out today.

Something like this, then?

Thanks Jim :)

This won't be part of the style because there are a few things that need far more time than is available to sort out before March, but I'm also working on a night time theme that might appear in the more distant future.

You can mess around with the global sun settings (right click the hourglass). Just playing with the Intensity a bit can give a more stormy appearance.

Though this only seems to affect the roof shading in this map. If you look at the shadow effects they are the same. To alter those you would need to adjust the shadow effects themselves.

Where you tend to use a lot of raw colour polygons and draw your own shadows, you could do something by playing with the palette colours, I guess, but that would be a whole lot more fiddly. Overcast light is much colder than sunlight. So you would need to turn everything more blue-greyish. Maybe a single overlay sheet might do it? Kill the bright hot yellows and reds a bit?

Hi Everyone! :)

In this Thursday's Live Mapping session Ralf will be using the first style of the 2008 Cartographer's Annual to draw a map in Pete Fenlon's classic 1980's RPG map style.

Come along and join in the fun :)

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be creating and using heraldic symbols from the March issue of the 2008 Cartographer's Annual.

Come along and join in the fun :)