Denaway Canyon (personal project)

[Voolf]

Another map for my "cosy place" series
This time I wanted to make a map in this interesting ratio - narrow and long.
It was a lot of work and I realised that I have to think about different way or technique for grass and trees.
They take way too much time. I think I have to work on some brushes that will speed up the process.

Denaway_Canyon_CG.jpg

Cheers
Rafal

[Arimel]

No kidding they take time . The amount of detail in the leaves is amazing (as does the map as a whole)! I can't tell though what the main feature of the map is (the brown route). Is it a road or a dried river bed (or something else entirely)? For me things don't entirely make sense for either one so I am curious here!

[wminish]

This is looking great, I really like the level of detail you've achieved. I'm not surprised that it was quite time-consuming to make though.

[Voolf]

No kidding they take time . The amount of detail in the leaves is amazing (as does the map as a whole)! I can't tell though what the main feature of the map is (the brown route). Is it a road or a dried river bed (or something else entirely)? For me things don't entirely make sense for either one so I am curious here!

Right... The main feature i suppose would be the canyon route. However I like to add things around and make multiple paths and levels to my maps. So i get that may be confusing.
On the other hand, the map can be used in different ways for different purposes.

This is looking great, I really like the level of detail you've achieved. I'm not surprised that it was quite time-consuming to make though.

Thank you. Yeah it was, but I guess I don't have a good brushes set (and technique) and I am playing around with simple round one for almost everything... that may be the cause

[XCali]

Absolutely lovely map!

And about you mentioning the trees taking so long. Because the trees have random shapes, I agree in creating a brush out of them. Maybe 15 ish different ones and then you can just plop them down for a new project. BUT, for the sake of those situations where some of them will look the same as others? After you plopped down your brush trees on a new map, then just go over and alter the worst offenders in slight ways. I found it works quite well.

Hehe, so often, trees steal most of our time, where we could have let our creative juices flow elsewhere on the map.

I hope it at least gave you an idea on how tackle your time consuming tree problem.

[squeen]

Maybe my new gold-standard for trees. So nice!

I love the waterfall too.

[Voolf]

Absolutely lovely map!

And about you mentioning the trees taking so long. Because the trees have random shapes, I agree in creating a brush out of them. Maybe 15 ish different ones and then you can just plop them down for a new project. BUT, for the sake of those situations where some of them will look the same as others? After you plopped down your brush trees on a new map, then just go over and alter the worst offenders in slight ways. I found it works quite well.

Hehe, so often, trees steal most of our time, where we could have let our creative juices flow elsewhere on the map.

I hope it at least gave you an idea on how tackle your time consuming tree problem.

Thanks XCali. I have been struggling to make some brush for some time, but I always find it difficult. Not enough randomness. Lately I was thinking of making some leaves kind of brush. Stoke few times with different colours and shades to make the texture faster. I even have few default brushes like that. But it somehow doesn't work as I would like it work, hehe. Still a lot to learn, i guess.

Maybe my new gold-standard for trees. So nice!

I love the waterfall too.

Thank you.