Reply With QuoteJust look at Washington DC, all sorts of masonic symbols in the street layout.
Genius!!! Have some rep!Originally Posted by rdanhenry
Just look at Washington DC, all sorts of masonic symbols in the street layout.
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Hm, reminds me of the Poeple's Palace in D'Hara in the Sword of Truth series. Sounds like a brilliant idea.
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Had a go at one of the levels. Not that clear in the jpeg, but still kinda cool-looking. It looked better in my CC3 window.
This level is obviously still far from finished, but you can get an idea of how it is going to look. I had originally planned to do lots of rows a attached appartment buildings but they started looking too uniform. So I ended up placing each building individually (so much for my policy of quick and efficient map making). I also put in some odd shaped buildings to show that there is some unusual architecture and also to fit into the sharp angles of rune inspired streets.
Also tried to take on board the comments regarding the cliff shadows.
I think I will have to do something about the roads though. They don't really stand out. They are meant to be cramped and narrow, but they get a bit lost at this zoom level. Maybe I will pave the symbol areas in red.
Anyway this is what I have done lately.
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Whoa, i stop watching this map for a few days and it becomes this. Great job, repped.
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Repped.
It's all i can say
Looking good!
Yes indeed, that's looking rather nice so far. Really can't find anything to nit-pic about at this point and am looking forward to seeing the finished product as a whole.
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Thank's for the positive feedback. I'll be working on the lower two levels this week.
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Slow going. I keep crashing my computer.
I have done some work on the first level of the town. This includes the original settlement and keep. This is the more mundane area of the city, all the early buildings were built without the aid of magic so they are smaller and more conventionally shaped, than the higher levels.
The city area will probably be 20-25 sq km based on the scale of my map. Most of the people live in apartments, so it looks like the population might run to 80-120,000. Considering the city imports so much of its food and other staples, the docks will probably need to be fairly extensive. I'm not sure how much shoreline to devote to the docks.
I imagine that the super wealthy are going to have estates on the top level of the city. There are going to be some whopping mansions on the highest plateau. Considering this does anyone think (from an aesthetic p.o.v.) that I have made the dwellings too small compared to lvl 3?
Anyway, I just thought I'd share the latest fruits of my labours.
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