Very nice caves...
Watch out! if your players have new boots... the ground is still wet...
In order to get myself in a map making mindset, I told myself that even though I am new here I should enter the may contest... so today I made this simple cave map mostly trying to get as much texture as I could and still stay in the file size.
The overall shape is the Photoshop plug-in "clouds"... thresholded brought it down to a black and white matte then it was given some extra definition by hand.
Then I drew in the "mud" on two layers that had some bevel & emboss applied to it with a brush on a low opacity, and after some hue & saturation it was on to compression... anyway.
I gave it a spin in the RPGTonight VTT and it worked... but I was not playing an adventure so I guess in the end you all will be the judge.
VTT_comp4.jpg
-Chris
Very nice caves...
My Finished Maps
Works in Progress(or abandoned tests)
My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
----------------------------------------------------------
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Impressive! And a very effective use of the clouds filter. It's quite a workhorse for cartography.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
Very nice! Plenty of ways to get ambushed when you're leaving tracks in the mud
Wow! I like it! Thanks for the inspiration...
Neurowiz/Chgowiz
Great cartoony / illustrative feel to the map - well done!
Lovely map, very generic and playable with a cool look and feel.
Torq
The internet! It\'ll never catch on.
Software Used: Terranoise, Wilbur, Terragen, The Gimp, Inkscape, Mojoworld
Hehehe, I wondered what it would look like to create footprint overlays to plop down on the mud as the players move about. This is just a test to see how it would look. It has some potential I think.
Most impressive.
Could you perhaps explain more about how you made your mud textures?
Thanks,
-meleeguy
Yes... I have made a short tutorial on how I did it. See it here:
Youtube
-Chris
Edit: RPMiller I love the foot prints! Nice touch!!!
Last edited by rpgmapmaker; 05-14-2008 at 06:07 AM. Reason: Man I am tired...up all night messing with screen capture...
@BHfuturist Check out my Video Tutorials & Vault of Free Map Elements
Unless otherwise stated in the post, all of my artwork is released into the Public Domain.