Sparta ARC commission map

[Mouse]

What more can I say, but... Wow!

[Tonnichiwa]

So this is a close up with the anti aliasing turned down and the sheets and effects turned on of the area with the pond scum. I thought you might want to see some of the cars and the helicopter and how I did the pond scum stuff. Believe it or not, those are all symbols of blood splatters that have had the color changed and they have been shrunk down. I thought they did a pretty good job of appearing like pond scum.

[damonjynx]

Like Mouse said. Wow.

[Bogie]

Very cool!

[Tonnichiwa]

Thanks Damonjynx and Bogie

[Mouse]

Blood splatter pond scum?

That's what I call ingenious

[Tonnichiwa]

Would it make you even more amazed to learn that the tree stumps are actually two different symbols put together so that they look more or less like a tree stump?

The first and largest symbol is actually a symbol of a Stalagmite from Dungeon Designer 3 that had a hole to make it look hollow. So I found a symbol of a rock and put it over the hole. Now it resembles the cut marks of a saw where someone hacked the tree down and when they are both together it looks more like a tree stump from a top down view.

I couldn't really find a good top down view of any tree stumps so I had to come up with something. I think it worked pretty well

[Mouse]

LOL!

We need to find you a job in symbol design

[ChickPea]

Nice work on this. It'll make a great gaming map with that amount of detail. It's great to see a modern urban map too. Makes a nice change.

[Tonnichiwa]

Thanks Chickpea I really liked building this map because it gave me a chance to use Google Earth to explore that neighborhood and look at it from many angles. I was surprised to see what looked like really nice houses sitting right next to trailer park houses. It is a very strange neighborhood. I didn't even know this place existed until I got the commission.