Reply With QuoteI'm actually using the Line Tool mostly to get straight, parallel and clean lines. So I guess in a sense, I am drawing it by "hand"?Originally Posted by Mouse
LOL! and there I was thinking you had hand drawn every set of steps! That's a really nice symbol set you have there, then. What is it ?
And do you mean a colonnade - a bit like a cardo?
A bit like this?
I think , though I'm not a proper historian, that they might have been generally linked to the buildings by a sort of sloping roof or an awning, so that the whole thing was like a dirty great big long communal porch over the area that I would call a pavement, and the Americans would probably call a sidewalk.
Sensible idea, really, in very hot countries - a bit of shade to dodge into on either side of the road
Weren't they also most usually found on the two main roads of the city, though?
Something like a colonnade, yes. Except drawing them like that didn't look that great when I first tried it, so I've been trying some different ways of getting it to look okay. As I said, I'm not really sold on this way either. Might skip it entirely if I can't get it to work.
Well.. kind of. The city grids came a little bit later in roman cities from what I've gathered, and while historically correct (they built really gridded cities), I wanted to make it a little bit more dynamic-looking. Quite a few of the buildings on the map do have that lower, sloping roof you mention, for shade and places for shops. They just don't extend along the entire road.
My thought were that the finer parts of town would have them (along with sculptures etc) lining the large roads, as well as the main roads (which will be a north/south one and one that goes from the center to the east). I'm still experimenting with it, though, and I'm definitely soaking up your input here.
