@Royal Scribe I had completely forgotten to add the Wall Shadow effect, thanks for the reminder. I've been trying to get rock face/cliff face type features in various maps for about a year now. I tried a lot of things using the various rock drawing tools in several CC3+ dungeon and city styles but it wasn't getting there. PBE Games has a numner of different textures, mostly rock types, that can change the look a lot. I have not moved beyond figuring out the texture scaling and picking the base texture. The lower map is a different texture pack.

Shadows for the camp fire are funky but otherwise ok

Toook another run at this with SS2A with an assist from Dark Cities. I think I like this approach more.

Thank you, Wyvern. I appreciate the insights into improving the design of the building. I will take a run at a 2.0 version of this at a later date but for now I have a D&D game to GM this week and I need the map done. I gave in and added windows to the ground floor and nixed the upper story. I'll take these learnings and use them for my next "frontier" Inn. For the moment, I give you the Shaggy Shep Inn and Tap Room. Center of life in the hamlet of Kilmeade.

Cheers.

I think LoopySue is a genius. The varous symbols and styles that she has created have enable so many possibilities. SS2 + Creepy Crypts. The party is in a rowboat leaving a cave complex and this is the exit. What coul possibly go wrong?

I've been playing and failing at making ligthed dungeons for quite some time. The secret is to not have a Directional Wall Shadow effect on the walls of your rooms that you apply the Wall Shadow, Point Light Setup and Final effects to. Must admit, I did not see anything specific about that in the Tome but I resorted to shutting effects off one at a time and.... BINGO...

Still needs quite a bit of work but I can FINALLY make a lighted dungeon....

I am trying to simulate sunlight shining through a window, specifically the window on the left wall and the one on the front wall to the right. I changed the color on the Wall Shadow, Directional effect to a bright yellow and used the Global Sun setting so it matches the shadows cast by the wall. I added a stronger shadow to the sack just below the left window and the cauldron to the right of the front window. Does it work or am I just messing up the map? Any thoughts are appreciated.

I started making battle maps by hand, pencil on large quad paper, in the early 1980's and they were well recieved. Life broke up that group and I didn't really get invovled with any new games for some time.

I had to look back into the online store to figure out I originally purchased CC3+ and add-ons in 2016 and dabbled with it on and off.

It wasn't until 202o that I joined this community and was inspired to become active. Getting a request from an old friend to run a DnD campaign on a virtual table top kicked things into high gear and I haven't looked back. This forum has helped immensely as have the tutorials and videos. I'm looking forward to retirement in a few years when I can really figure out how to use this software properly ;-)

Experimenting with SS2 again for a small cave complex. Need to work on exporting the maps, things like the worn path in the cave floor and the water foam come out much darker on export as a jpeg. The ground cover gets rather blurred as well.

Need to dig up the sheet acne solution as well for the filler.

The rising water has trapped the leader of a goblin hunting party in the cave because he's slowly becoming a vampire spawn. The goblin tribe asks our intrepid heros to lay him to rest.... what could possibly go wrong?