The Village of DunHaven (WIP)

[Mark Oliva]

The map looks great with two exceptions:

1) Bogie already took care of the beach sand question.

2) The blurry grass detracts from what otherwise is semi-photorealistic work. It would make a great improvement if you boosted the resolution on the fill so that it looks like grass or if you used a better grass fill.

I also notice that there's a dead body there that looks more like a motorcycle.

Nix für Ungut!

[Mouse]

Hey Storm

All you need to do to get yourself some markings on those roads is add another sheet just above the sand, put a Blur effect on it, followed by a Blend mode effect set to 'overlay', and draw rut marks and what-have-you onto that sheet in black lines of varying thicknesses.

Its the CC3 version of 'shading'

The sand texture becomes dirt as you make it darker

[ladiestorm]

I'm just trying to decide what I want to do about it, since I don't want actual asphalt... this is supposed to be a poor, almost forgotten hamlet. I'm thinking gravel, if I can find a fill I like.
2) Didn't even think about the grass issue... thanks for pointing that out! I have quite a few good grass fills, and changing the fill is easy enough
3) I think I'm just going to get rid of that motorcycle all together, since everyone seems to be mistaking it for a dead body! Maybe I will put a couple of bicycles in its place.

@Mouse - I'm actually thinking of either a darker dirt overlay... or perhaps the cracked soil fill I have... or maybe a gravel fill, anyway, I have some ideas of what I can do .

[Mouse]

I think I said this on your challenge thread, or earlier in this thread. I can't remember, but there are a whole load of textures available at Textures.com. The problem, however, is that I can't convert them to png for you, because that goes against the T&C of using the site. Their textures, beautiful though they are, are useless to CC3 users unless you do the conversion yourself. jpg -> png

However (and you don't have to use them if you don't want to) I will be adding a few more png textures to my free texture album over the next few days. You might find one you like there... or you might not. We'll see

EDIT: Might have a couple of grass textures for you to try as well

[ladiestorm]

Okay, so I have hopefully fixed the grass and the road issue. I still forgot to delete the motorcycle, but I will do that later. Here is what I have.

DunHaven.08a.JPG

I may need to cut the saturation of the gravel down a little more... what do you all think?

as always, looking for feedback

[Mark Oliva]

I still forgot to delete the motorcycle, but I will do that later.

I don't see any reason to delete the motorcycle. I think the problem would be solved by increasing the size of the motorcycle by about 15-20%.

BTW, I was only having fun when I said I see a dead body that looks like a motorcycle.

The improvements are great.