Here is the final draft (repeat, draft - feel free to add suggestions) for the example city for the July Annual.

I have completed all the drawtools and instructions to my satisfaction - just waiting for @Ralf to return from his well-earned holiday to see what he says. I am also going to add a plain version of the wall and tower buildings, but this will make the drawtool list quite long.

It has been quite a journey, being able to take the new version of the Medieval City Generator into a form which can be more or less easily transform into a format that CC3+ can use. I was really pleased to be able to add the trees, alleys and even more simple versions of the Coat of Arms to the mix.

The bitmap resolution still is not totally satisfactory - but if I make it too large, then the result looks strange, and if smaller, even more tiled. Grrr. And finally the hatch symbol for the fields at the top right are too fine, I think - not enough space between them for a city this size, but I am unsure how to scale them so they work better. And also how to get them to show up in the Symbol Fills list. I guess Ralf will help with this on his return.

I might also do a much smaller settlement, but use the plain style, to see which people prefer.

This is the first (probably only) annual style I have done, and I am a nervous wreck - haha I really take my hat off to those like Sue who produce such magnificent annuals. Thank you Sue amd Remy for your helpful suggestions - jsut having difficulty with the fill resolution size.

I forgot to fix the legend as per Remy's suggestion. Rather than redo it just for this correction, i will post the final map when all the suggestions have come in. I want to turn everything in by 3-4th June.

Here is the map of the Khotrostovy Confederation - I reused the maps for the Community Atlas of Xenothon and Demydice, and Megalith Isle - yet to be included in the Atlas, but waiting for Remy to get time to put them in (I have asked him to wait till I finish the other islands' map notes, so the delay is my doing). In addition, I have changed the names to a more Slavic feel, and added another mainly wooded elven isle. Another advantage to reusing these maps, is that I already have map notes, which I can expand upon for my own world.

Here is another Island in the detailed map of Hardin I am doing.

The title is correct - all knights and other nobles have the so-called 'male' titles, regardless of sex, to indicate that this is a FEMALE dominated world. (as the females are SO much stronger in use of innate 'magic' powers, called etherics).

Further work done on this map - added some extra islands - the ones I have been doing for the Community Atlas. renaming not yet done, but the symbols all reorganized. I had to scale them up since the atlas maps were in miles, and the Hardin map is in Km, and I wanted to keep the islands the same size. It also means I will keep the write-up of the islands.

A larger version will be in the Gallery.

Update on the Island Of Kalihirin - it is complete. Now for the write up, then mapping each site.

The island has an area of about 255 sq km, a bit smaller than the Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis, which has a population of about 50,000. So plenty of room for lots of adventure. I always worry about putting too much on a small island, but I am reassured by real world examples. I guess living in the massively big and massively underpopulated country of Australia, where a 100 km drive is considered nothing, makes me leery of putting too much on a small island, like UK or St Kitts and Nevis.

Saint Kitts and Nevis - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Larger version in gallery