August 2016 Mapping Challenge: Collegium Rite of Passage

[ladiestorm]

Well, it's getting there! I've started putting up the buildings and vegetation around it... not done yet, but I have the preliminaries, anyway. Pretty soon I will be able to copy this over to complete the second floor! Then I can start the interiors of both floors.

I have run into a small snag... One of my talismans is supposed to be guarded by a sphynx... only I don't have a good sphynx. I found one that Lorelei suggested, only it's not a true sphynx, it's more like a chimera or manticore. So if anyone knows where I can find a sphynx, I woud greatly appreciate it!

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[Mouse]

Its coming along nicely now, Storm. The composition is a lot more balanced now you've filled in most of the areas that were blank before.

Sorry - can't help you with the Sphynx!

[Gamerprinter]

Ladiestorm, this isn't exactly a true sphinx, rather its a statue of Anubis (in animal form) for an Eqyptian themed city map I did last year. You can use it if its fits your theme though. It might need rescaling though - don't know what size you need.

GP

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[Mark Oliva]

I have run into a small snag... One of my talismans is supposed to be guarded by a sphynx... only I don't have a good sphynx.

You might not be satisfied with this, but the non-statue version pretty well lives up to the traditional greek definition of a winged sphinx is, which I assume is the same thing as your sphynx:

http://www.dundjinni.com/forums/foru...4136&KW=sphinx

[ladiestorm]

Mark, once again, you are a life saver! You found exactly what I needed! I got it, thanks!

[ladiestorm]

I haven't added much to this yet, I added a bit more to the labyrinth, and I added my sphynx! I still need one more symbol, which I will go searching for today. I figured the best creature to defend the Talisman of Wisdom, would be a giant great owl... but again, I have no such owl!

In the mean time, I realized something that's going to complicate matters just a tad... The fact that I have to keep this as a one story map! Since the thumbnail scraper will only pick up on one wip, I have to do it all in one level. That makes things a TAD more complicated, but I believe I have a handle on it... I just have to extend my map a bit, and re work my main building a bit. Other than that, this map continues!

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Collegium Arcanus_Floor 1.06LRG.PNG

[Mouse]

Still looking good, Storm. And I'm certain the one-floor thing won't be all that much of a problem for you

There is just one thing (sorry!)

You know how my brain works on patterns - identifying things that are the same, even if they're a real-world mile apart... well, might you consider rotating/reflecting a couple of those spruce trees?

Sorry!

[ladiestorm]

hmmmm... I thought I had. I will go back and check those, thanks!

[Mark Oliva]

might you consider rotating/reflecting a couple of those spruce trees?

Or even better, six different pine tree symbols. They're there. And they are pines, not spruces.

[Mouse]

Pines then! Some kind of fluffy needle tree, anyway, LOL!

My father was a zoologist, my mother is a botanist! My brother and sister are also different kinds of scientists...

I was just the clueless air-brain of the family - and it shows