Reply With QuoteI think it's possible to do awesome job with bevel and emboss to but not only by clicking and a activating an option. Every good map need lots of work not only option clicking. Anyway nice Tut, thanks for share your knowledge
Great explanation. I have been doing similar things but have been doing it all by hand. I hadn't thought about using the stroke line method to speed things up. Thanks for the tips, I'll be sure to try it somewhere.
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I think it's possible to do awesome job with bevel and emboss to but not only by clicking and a activating an option. Every good map need lots of work not only option clicking. Anyway nice Tut, thanks for share your knowledge
Agreed. The bevel comment was a little tongue in cheek. It's just one of those options that people use as a fire and forget solution and stands out like a sore thumb - especially on hand drawn maps.
Its supposed to be a mine of some sort. Thanks btw!Originally Posted by torstan
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Going to try this on my dungeon maps. Very cool.
Glad you like it - let me know how it goes. Looks like you're local too
Hmm... sooo.. how about a "thick"(size) bevel followed by a stroke with a erase->grunge brush with somewhat high jitter and random opacity.
FYI, I have used this on coastlines a long time ago with large brush(fuzzy) set to high jitter, random size, random color on an overlay layer and it comes out really nice for randomizing "continental" shelf's and stuff.
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If you have a bevel as a layer effect I'm not sure what it is you'd be erasing with the brush? Or is this a gimp question where it's not a layer effect?
Yes, it's a great way to do things like continental shelfs and coastlines.
Heh... well.. since I am cheap, I don't have PS and thus layer effects.... so any bevel effects would likely be done %50 grey layer set to overlay... THAT would be the layer to stroke in this example...
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Well, thanks a lot! I learned a lot today.
I used donjon; Random Dungeon Generator to generate the lines (then use filter->stylze->find edge to create the path. From there, use a small brush to create a thick line).
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