Really great map, and some pretty advanced techniques for a first-shared map -- like making your own stairs and dealing with transparency acne. Nicely done.

Good ideas. I keep forgetting about SS2. I thought about CA209, but wasn't sure the brown ones looked wooden enough.

Drawing them would allow me to use the same wood grain as the floor. I guess my subconscious brain was ruminating on this while I slept, because I woke up with the idea of changing the direction of the draw fill for every other step by doing the "Angle by Edge" function on the opposite edge, and then removing the angle by changing to a Shade Only Copy. And it works! You still get the plank divider lined up every other step, but that's not so bad.

I think the fact that they aren’t exactly perfect is realistic for an older building that would have settled a bit after the tiles were laid down.

I love your creative use of symbols as floor tiles. Very innovative.

I am experimenting with different ways of doing wooden stairs.

This is for the interior of a building where the exterior is from a town created with Darklands City, and I want a compatible interior style. I have found that DD3 works better with Darklands City than Mike Schley's stuff.

Unfortunately, the wooden stairs that come with DD3 all have arrows (the bottom two from this example) which I am not fond of, so I am experimenting with other options.

For non-DD3 symbols, I'm trying to limit it to the same annual that has Darklands City. Unfortunately, the only other annual from that year that has stairs is Marine Dungeons -- one of my favorites, but the stairs are all stone. Beautiful, but not quite right for this building. I know Dundjinni Archives has wooden steps, which I have used before, but I'm hesitant to use them.

The upper left draws steps using a wooden fill from Annual Ship Deckplans, which is the same year as Darklands City. Advantages: It offers a wide range of wooden fill options (pine, oak, cherry -- with lighter and darker versions), and by putting each step on its own sheet, I can use sheet effects to make lower steps darker (in addition to the glows and wall shadows to make each step rise higher). Disadvantages: the planks all line up the same for each step (they're in shadow but you can see on the planks heading north).

The two in the upper right is from Mike Schley's SS4. I'm not a fan of the jagged edge, though covering with walls (or carpets, as Ricko cleverly does) may work. But unfortunately, I'm not sure it's particularly compatible.

The middle two actually fudge by using DD3's tables as steps. I think it looks nice, and I can do a tiny bit of variety by flipping the table 180 degrees, but it doesn't give me the any flexibility with different types of wood. I'd be limited to that reddish wood which is lovely, but not quite the rustic pine or oak that works best with the floors. So I'm torn.

Anyone have thoughts or preferences here?