Curved Stairs / Double Curved Stairs (free use)

[Hermit]

As part of a Lovecraftian game I needed some imposing stairs for a grand entryway into a mansion. I couldn't reallllllly find what I was looking for so I made these. They are based on a design I found here: https://dwgmodels.com/476-baroque-staircase.html

Please don't sell this anywhere, but feel free to use it for whatever you like (non-commercial or commercial). Credit me if you can, but if you forget, don't worry about it.
*if you do use this, please post a picture on this thread so I can see what you've made!*


As a discussion point, I made this in GIMP and am not entirely happy with how jagged/saw-toothed the curved edges turned out. Any pointers on how to make that better?

[Tiana]

These are pretty neat.

If I wanted to reduce anti-aliasing, I'd either make bigger strokes, or work larger and then downside the art at the end.

[bkh1914]

Nice stairs.

I really looks like you have anti-aliasing off.
I've been using GIMP for years (currently 2. and I've never had a problem like that.

As Tiana suggested, starting with a much larger image and scaling it down is another option.
If you do scale the image down, you'll get a much better result if you scale it down in steps of about 80%.
(i.e. with a starting image size of 100, scale it in steps like 80, 64, 50, 40, 32, 25... etc.)

[Hermit]

Thank you both for the response. I'm pretty much a novice at GIMP and am just starting to figure it out. I knew I was missing something when I tried to fix it initially.

I'll try again and follow both of your suggestions and post the new result. Thanks again!

[Hermit]

Thanks to the advice from Tiana and bkh1914 these stairs now look much better.

I went back and redrew the entire set of stairs on a much larger canvas and, as suggested, the strokes and lines were much less pixelated. The anti-aliasing was on in GIMP, but I was originally working so small that it had no effect. While the final product is much larger as a file/pixel size, it looks much better and even when it's scaled down it looks better.

Thank you again Tiana and bkh1914!

Attached are the full size redraws and a 50% scaled image for each as well.

[bkh1914]

Those look a lot better.

Even the full size has smooth lines this time.

[Hermit]

Much appreciated!

My original was only 465 x 316 which was way too small. Thanks again

[Bogie]

Very nice, always need good stairs!

[Tiana]

Much better now! Well done and I'm sure you'll make many more great assets if you continue in this path.

[Hermit]

Thanks for the support and the help! I'm getting a little bit more comfortable with doing this kind of thing, but I'm still new to it. If I make any new stuff I'll be sure to post it in the forum.