Phase 2 of the project is the night version. Again this is a work in progress and I have a large amount of work to get the sky the way I want it to be.

1) Does the image give the over impression of what I'm trying to showcase in this project?

2) Does the lighting of the mountain range work?

3) Does the lighting in the sky represent the Aurora? (Yes it still needs a lot of work but again this is my first attempt at doing something this intense) (if interested there are 330 lights in the aurora)

I have really learned a lot about lights and how a color background effects the lights differently from a bitmap background.

This will be an on going project until I get the lighting the way I want it and it works for the subject then I will start work on the actual project.

Thank You in advance for your comments and suggestions.

I don’t GM but I’m working on a set of maps for a guy at work and will use this style to help him understand how the escape route maps go together. It will be a series of maps for his party to leave the dungeon they will be in with stairs between each encounter area.

Think I figured it out, put the text inside a text file and then have the map open the text file. Way easier to adjust the text to fit into the desired text area.

The green color water is a trademark of darklands. Look at the sheet effects and you will see an RGB matrix which changes the color. just uncheck it if you want blue water.

Here is the archive link

https://web.archive.org/web/20110322093635/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/ex20020218a