Some CC3 Experiments

[jaerdaph]

Thanks everybody.

Yeah, the double shadow is to simulate light sources inside the cavern, possibly from multiple sources. There's an outer glow on the walls (in black) to hide them in darker shadow. The troll and prisoner definitely need some sort of shadowing though.

I think I'm going to walk away from this one for awhile. If anyone still sees the face/vase thing going on, let me know.

As always, thank you so much for the invaluable input and suggestions. This is why I really love this place!

[jaerdaph]

I thought I'd resurrect this thread and add these latest experiments here. If you hang out at EN World, you may have seen these already.

This is a quick mockup of a castle, using bitmap fills and sheet effects on the left and traditional "old school" mapping on the right. I made the "scientific" graph paper using sheet effects as well:

[jaerdaph]

Here's a dungeon style I'm experimenting with, plus some more experimentation with the graph paper look. I made the dungeon floor bitmap fill style from an image I found at Will's Hand Made Dungeon Floorplans and adjusted in GIMP:




I recolored that dungeon floor image in GIMP for some variations on this style:

[jaerdaph]

Here's a dungeon inspired by the maps found in Expedition to Undermountain. I really didn't like that map style at all (especially compared to the original 2e Undermountain boxed set maps which I love), but like a train wreck, I just can't seem to look away...





And here's another take on that same map with different bitmap fills:




The dungeon map above is based on the room layout in this one at WotC:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ma...eon1_hkjes.jpg

Here's another level in that 3e Undermountain style, this time featuring caverns. I played around with the commands fractal path, explode, line to path, combine path, path to poly and multipoly to make this.

[ravells]

I really like the one at the bottom - it has a lovely illustrative hand drawn feel to it. Nice work!

[NeonKnight]

I'd love a copy of that floor bitmap style.

[jaerdaph]

Thanks guys.

I think this is the one you mean, NeonKnight. I did not create the original but pulled it from this thread (post #3), then cropped it in GIMP to get it to tile properly:

http://forums.rpghost.com/showthread.php?t=42788