jmabbott
jmabbott
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WIP: Menii, Capital of the Isle of Purple Towns
Hi All,
Here are a couple of pics of where I'm at with this. I'm using the Fantasy Cities style. The 1st shows my current progress, the 2nd my work with the original bitmap. Still quite a bit to do.
From what I can see, I think the original cartographer's scale is off...His scale bar shows 1 km which would make the buildings particularly large...(IMO)
I wasted a bit of time trying to use the cliff/rock bitmap fill from CA108 Battlemaps for the cliffs but couldn't get it looking good, so opted for just a light brown poly with darker, fractal lines which I think is a far better method and more in keeping with style.
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WIP: Isle of the Purple Towns
@Wyvern I agree, but as usual, I didn't make sure to put the symbols on the correct layers, there's a tip for newcomers, always check the layer before placing any feature, makes it so much easier to just select what you need particularly in 'busy'areas, so increasing them for this map is not worth the time and effort. It would be easier to delete and redo them. Anyhow, here is the 'finished'map, well as finished as it's going to get for my game at any rate. If it was for publication I'd spend more time on it.
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WIP: Isle of the Purple Towns
Wasn't overly happy with the above, so decided, in keeping with the old-school feel for these maps, to try it in the Revised Peter Fenlon style. Much happier. Still got a couple of rivers and the rest of the labeling to do (I have to look up the place names, the text on the source drawing is fairly illegible...).
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WIP: Isle of the Purple Towns
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WIP: The World of Elric, Classic Fantasy Style
The final, final map is here: https://forum.profantasy.com/profile/gallery/6719/jmabbott/176













