November 2007 Entry: Superstition Valley

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Now for Mesa objects...

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I've created and painted 20 hills, but here's 5 of them...

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Hmmm, looks like that last image is telling me I screwed up in exporting PNG files, for some reason, that one hill is the only one with a built-in alpha channel. I've got to check to see if that's the case and fix the problem. Oh well.

I'll upload the first 5 mountain modules to see if that's the case, if so, I'll stop and fix them.

Because there's so many files, and I will need to create 3 different versions of each - color/lineart/black and white, I won't be uploading everything next time. Rather I will place all objects onto a webpage and provide a link to that page. There's just too much to upload.

(I have 29 mountain objects and plan to create at least a half dozen more, in three versions that's 105 mountain modules alone.)

Altogether, I should have about 200 to 250 map objects in total, when I'm through with this challenge.

Did I ever say, I put too much work into these challenges...

WIP so far...

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Here's the base map with the river, before mountains are placed...

WIP so far...

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Oh, good, they exported fine and all have proper alpha channels - I didn't want to do all that work again.

Tomorrow's post, I'll provide a link to a webpage that contains all existing objects for this challenge.

(I'm about 3/4 done with the challenge - I think!)

[ravells]

Looking truly superb, GP! Are the alpha channels working now? Presumably the images will have varying opacity so the the background shows through in varying degrees?

[terrainmonkey]

see, this is why i don't enter these challenges any more... truly superb work, GP. wait until i get my hands on all of these symbols, the map i am gonna make. oh boy, can't wait!