Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey

[HandsomeRob]

Hi all,
Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey is one of my favorite novels, and what's more, it can be mapped. So I mapped it! If you haven't read it, I strongly recommend it. Enjoy.

-Rob

Shades-of-Grey-Map.jpg

[Larb]

I am not familiar with the setting but the map makes it look pretty intriguing. Also it's a very nice and clean piece of work.

[ravells]

Lovely work as always, Rob. I really like the understated relief.

p.s. I've been looking for that forest pattern everywhere off and on. I know it's posted up on the guild somewhere as part of a larger collection but I can't find it)...is there any chance you could post the pattern up so I can add it to my texture files?

Cheers

Ravs

[HandsomeRob]

Lovely work as always, Rob. I really like the understated relief.

p.s. I've been looking for that forest pattern everywhere off and on. I know it's posted up on the guild somewhere as part of a larger collection but I can't find it)...is there any chance you could post the pattern up so I can add it to my texture files?

Cheers

Ravs

Sure thing. It's from the USGS originally, but I can't seem to find it through Google either. How do I get an .ai file to you?

[aquarits]

Whoa, i am working in one map adapting somthing like this style to a old/ medieval map. This map... is one that i have to keep as reference for this style.

LOVED THIS MAP

I just miss the legend

[ravells]

Thanks Rob,

If you put the file in a zip folder and post it here as an attachment (like you did with the image), that would work, thanks in advance!

[HandsomeRob]

Okay ravells, here's the forest pattern I use in an Illustrator CS2 file. If you need an older version let me know and I can backsave it for you.

-Rob

Forest Pattern.zip

[arsheesh]

Nice to see you back Rob. Very nice work on this.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[ravells]

Thanks Rob, much appreciated! Just in case you need it (probably not if the forest outline size to the texture size is small), I have used image synth to make a tiling 2048 version (the current one looks like its 512 and the tile lines are obvious) which might be useful for really large forests.

[vorropohaiah]

very nice and lovely contours.