Loopysue
Loopysue
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- Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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Perspectives 3 - Log Fort
You don't do things by half!
It's taken me a couple of years to get where I am with making seamless textures for overland, city and dungeon maps, which are relatively easy to do compared to Per. Some seamless textures are easier to make than others. It depends a lot on the scale of the objects in the pattern, and the overall size of the tile. So for example a 3000 px seamless tile stands a far better chance of looking ok than a 1000 px tile of the same kind of thing.
I'm not sure I understand how you are going to use this texture over a large area if it doesn't tile.
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Live Mapping: Ancestry Annual
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SS4 Mike Schley style - "Dwarven" textures
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Community Atlas - Elen Daelarion - Thrarasie Faire Cave, 14 & Western Hill Fort, 16
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Beginning Resources
The best advice I can give is to tell you to imagine what kind of map you would like to be shown if you were sitting waiting to play a game. That way, you have a standard to aim for, which leaves you with the task of finding the right style and getting the map done.
There is a page of postage stamp links to all the Cartographer's Annual issues here. While there's a lot more to the full range of styles available, this is the bulk of them. Each annual is sold as a batch of 12-13 issues. You buy the annual, and if it is already complete you get one installer for the whole set of issues. If you buy the current year's annual you can download each new issue at the rate of one a month.




