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  • Creating a Template to simulate the Khorvaire Map

    How close a match to that original map are you hoping to get?

    The reason for asking is I can make a few suggestions but none of the styles will exactly match that example. I don't want to go recommending a combination of lots of different styles from different annuals (which could get a bit expensive if you don't already own them), only to realise that it might have been ok to go with something less ambitious and a bit cheaper to do.

    db2000JimP
  • Battle at the Party

    The connecting hedges should work ok just drawing them by stright line sections around a curve as long as the radius of that curve isn't too small. I think (but can't remember, and I'm only up for a brief moment right now in the middle of the night) that I might have shown them in an example map of a circular maze.

    If you have the 2018 Cartographer's Annual I did a very small collection of varicolour flowering shrubs and fruit bushes for Asian Towns, though there aren't very many and they aren't my best so far, so I wouldn't buy the annual just for them if you haven't already got it.

    Another place to look for things like this might be some of the other free collections from Vintyri, though I don't know what they contain these days in any great detail. https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/10443/free-symbols-artwork


    JimP
  • WIP: An encounter site

    Looks great as it is, Ede :)

    Hieght is always a tricky one unless you employ a careful use of shadow effects, or even draw your own shadows on a separate sheet.

    A shadow sheet above the cliffs and below the trees might be best for that second option - polygons of solid black drawn to cover the shaded sides of the canyon with a blend mode effect on that sheet set to multiply and about 20% opacity and then a blur effect to soften the edges quite significantly. That's a little more tricky than just using a few shadow sheet effects on the boulders, but probably more realistic as some of the shadow will fall on the boulders rather than coming from underneath them, and I think some of the shade will be cast by steep banks rather than the boulders.

    JimP
  • WIP - Entrance to the Blood Rose Maze

    An interesting idea, and rather a nice drawing of a rose :)

    There's just one small thing that's catching my eye rather a lot. The door seems to be casting a bit of a strange shadow or glow. Maybe move it onto the walls sheet?

    JimP
  • (WIP) Night City

    You can easily set up your own House style, and then use it to create your own Street styles.

    The process is shown in several of the live mapping sessions. I will be back to edit and add a few links when I've found a good one.

    EDIT: Try this one, Julian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dLtzBiObwY

    QuentenJimP