Marshford (Town Practice Map)

[Wired]

Each and every one is unique. Those lines define the material used for the roof. In the big city you most definately find not only roof made from tiles but also a wood one, maybe some flat too. So try to use more then one. Map will have more depth.

As for the styles, i prefer #1 with the light tiling accent, but still its ok to make it more intense in some building like in #3. It is a good way to emphasize major or important buildings in the city. #2 is also ok. I would guess those roofs are made from wood as rest of the building and can represent poor district, or simple houses.

Variety is the key to an interesting city. Size variations as well, and height variations (shown by shadow later on)

I'd use all three, and then add some more variations on top of that

Heh, thanks, you two. I don't know why I didn't realize this obvious approach by myself, but that's why I have you people to thump me on the head. Don't just use one, use multiple styles. Of course!

[Mouse]

LOL! now if only I could learn the same lesson myself!!!

[Wired]

Okay, I took your advice to heart and redesigned a good number of the town's and castle's roofs. 1 - 4 are the next steps I'll take before adding new stuff to the map in the north and north-west.

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[Mouse]

Looking good, Wired

Can't wait to see the shading on it all.

[Wired]

Just a little bit more...

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[Mouse]

Coming on nicely again


I love cemeteries! Used to live in one... seriously - an old gatehouse

Drunks used to wander through on their way home late at night and sit on the bench about 50 yards away from my bedroom window and make quite a lot of noise. Got really fed up with it one night and without bothering to turn on the light I leaned over to shout at them through the open window...

'Excuse me!... People are trying to get some sleep around here, don't you know?'

Didn't occur to me until the next morning why they suddenly sat bolt upright, shot nervous glances at one another, then instantly vanished at quite a tilt up the path away from me like a flock of frightened hens!

[Wired]

Coming on nicely again


I love cemeteries! Used to live in one... seriously - an old gatehouse

Drunks used to wander through on their way home late at night and sit on the bench about 50 yards away from my bedroom window and make quite a lot of noise. Got really fed up with it one night and without bothering to turn on the light I leaned over to shout at them through the open window...

'Excuse me!... People are trying to get some sleep around here, don't you know?'

Didn't occur to me until the next morning why they suddenly sat bolt upright, shot nervous glances at one another, then instantly vanished at quite a tilt up the path away from me like a flock of frightened hens!

Hah, nice one!

I actually grew up directly opposite of a small chapel and a catholic graveyard. Creeped me the hell out as a kid, seeing all those flickering lights during clear night.

Okay, for my graveyard so far I have thought of these elements (* mark elements I've already drawn): a large crypt*; smaller crypts*; ledgers* in various states of decay; open graves; headstones in various states; a ruined building/tower at the edge of the graveyard/forest. I'm open for further ideas!

[ThomasR]

You dove head on into city planning and it pays up ! Really nice setup you got here

[Mouse]

Poor you!

Yes I imagine all those candles might have given anyone the spooks!

You could try vague avenues of trees with some missing, and all different sizes? Cemeteries always seem to have tree-lined avenues running through them in this country - mostly evergreen oak or yew. Since it was considered to be horribly unlucky to cut yew from a churchyard, most of the yew trees in our cemeteries are outlandishly huge, and some are several centuries old.

The paths that run through the one where I used to live were laid out in a fashion that was reminiscent of an ornamental garden, with lots of circles and curves, but that might have been because it was designed in the early Victorian era.

Unfortunately some of the oldest stones were damaged by vandals in the last couple of decades, so you could have some that are lying down. That might help to make it obvious that this is in fact a cemetery

Hope that helps?

[Mouse]

Oh yes! And an unnecessarily tall wall with wrought iron gates and gatehouses