Reply With QuoteThanks...these ought to come in pretty handy.
Building styles and other stuff
Here are the layer styles I've made so far for things like buildings, roads, walls, n other stuff. Use em directly or for inspiration and remember to remove the drop shadows when ready to render up the final shadow since the shadows here are more of a placeholder. Land 1, land 2, and desert require you to put the style on a clouds layer. BTW, these are for Photoshop. To use these most effectively, place your buildings with the flat sides in the cardinal directions, apply the layer style, create a new layer, merge the 2 layers (this flattens effectively removes the layer style and produces a raster layer similar to rasterizing a text layer) then rotate the building to fit the street it is on. If a building is rotated before flattening then the style doesn't match the roof slope. To achieve other cool effects apply a new layer style on top of this flattened out one or use gradient overlays instead of bevel/emboss to simulate height as in the market style because not all roofs were built this way...read up on some architecture to see what I mean about roof styles, there's a link somewhere around here I think. If you stack different shapes on different layers and subsequently use differing layer styles you can get something like the castle or lighthouse on my fjord map. The castle has 3 layers, the stone base, the castle roof, and the lil turret roofs.
Last edited by Ascension; 08-01-2008 at 12:57 AM.
Thanks...these ought to come in pretty handy.
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Just wanted to say thank you for the styles, I saved and check them out and they are going to be very useful.
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Sweet! Now I just need to find time to try out these and your cool brushes!
Oh god, thank you!! Thank you very much!!Originally Posted by Ascension
Last learned: Changing layers in PS to Smart Objects before Free Transforming them allows lossless transformations.
No prob. Tear them apart to see how I did them and you can come up with some of your own (for me to download
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
I was explicitely referring to your hint on flattening layers and rotating the objects afterwards. This was something that bugged me for quite some time
But yes, I will have a long long look at those styles!
Also: Have my first white rep!
Last learned: Changing layers in PS to Smart Objects before Free Transforming them allows lossless transformations.
Ah, gotcha. And, thank ya, thank ya vera much, unh huh.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Thanks for these, might have to try them out.
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