Guild City

[kacey]

I was just assuming that this was a tropical area because of the pics Mouse posted before, and because it was written, faintly, on the original map forest jungle.

Now I'm really confused.

[kacey]

I think a climate discussion needs to happen before people start.

[waldronate]

A rooftop reference for shading using the specified light angles might look like this:
yo.jpg

[Mouse]

Oh good! Its not me starting this round of debate. We can blame Redrobes this time

I remember mentioning some time ago that we may be a bit short of trees, but I qualified that statement by saying that it depended on rainfall, and that's as far as it went.

We tore off down some other road at that point and no one said anything else about it.

[Azélor]

I'm thinking that it's probably a tropical/subtropical climate like southern India with a wet season in the summer and a dry season during the winter. Some sort of savanna maybe?

We could use other stuff to build palisade, be creative! Use bones for example, don't be so picky.

[Voolf]

Have a read through:
https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ead.php?t=2596
Esp #4

300dpi is the resolution of the print of the map. Its not relevant to the map until you want to print it. You can use 300dpi 600dpi or any other. Its the overall number of pixels you use that is important. The DPI when printing it will determine its size of print.

Its usually a good idea to double the pixel resolution of an image when working on it and then scale it back to half size for the final. In the case of using J.E's posted image for your sector, scale it to whatever you are comfortable working with and forget about the DPI until you want it printed.

That is quite informative, thank you. Still, i prefer picking higher resolution (even if its not a print), which also makes image 'larger' in meaning i can pack more info in the same size image. Maybe it is not a good way to go.... I have more problem with the scale of this project.

[Mouse]

A rooftop reference for shading using the specified light angles might look like this:
yo.jpg

That's actually really helpful.

Thanks Waldronate

Oh! Is this a rare sighting of the thing we dare not mention for frightening John into hiding?!?

[Redrobes]

Your right I did assume desert but it was mentioned that it was a plain instead.

But it might not have been me that started this

The setting/location is 'as is' on the Guildworld map. J.E came up with a mindblowing Kast landscape idea a few comments ago, with a sink hole to a lake with lots of underground rivers around the place. The reason for the city would then be that it is the only watering place for hundreds of miles around, and therefore a very strategic point in the defence of the country as a whole.

All these things are still up for discussion though

So yeah, lets have the discussion but its pretty late here so ill probably just see what you all decided by tomorrow !

[Mouse]

Voolf - the size of the house is the size of the number of grid squares, whether each grid square is 10, 20 or 100 pixels wide and tall. The scale doesn't change when you change the size of the paper or the resolution because the scale is set by the grid. It simply... 'is'

EDIT: take those three houses you drew earlier on your plot... when you change either the size of the paper or the dpi, they are still the same number of grid squares in height and width. The relationship between the grid and the houses you draw doesn't change. It is as if they and the grid are the same thing.

[Mouse]

Your right I did assume desert but it was mentioned that it was a plain instead.

But it might not have been me that started this

So yeah, lets have the discussion but its pretty late here so ill probably just see what you all decided by tomorrow !

Ok - all right - you win! LOL! My bad