Holy super-saturated colors! I love the concept here, but I feel a bit overwhelmed by the colors. That of course is a personal design aesthetic though,
On a more technical/nit-picky note, watch the consistency of light source. You building roofs' shadows seem a bit haphazard.
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Gah, made major head way, and then left all the work on the machine at work.
I know I need to work on the cobblestone, I've been hunting for something on the side, but I think I'm just gonna break down and shrink the stone pattern in gimp... again...
The color has toned down the further I get and I may even go back and cut the color for the buildings down to just 3 color gradients or so. I kinda started with "detailed ptolus zone" style. Since it's the city map we use most often.
Try http://www.cgtextures.com/Originally Posted by Notsonoble
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Done as it'll get
at least in time for the contest. Am I happy with it as a full fledged put lots of time and effort into making a spectacular map... no.
Am I happy with having something complete... yes.
The concept is a more useful map in the style Ptolus' giant citymapodoom... It still looks like that to me, larger scale of a smaller section, buildings and walls/fences have some information about their material and such. There's some detail about things other than the roofs of buildings, but it's still overview-ish.
I do regret not having enough time to do the labels I had in mind, but I just used up my last amount of spare time between now and sunday.
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I know it's horrid of me, but I've not even payed attention to a light source...
I think I'm gonna endup saving this map and re-doing it over and over as I learn things... just as kind of a gauge.
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