City maps?

[Flagg]

So far, we've got some really nice maps for Nexus and Chiaroscuro.


As I find maps for cities far more useful than any other sort of map, does anyone care to crank out a few for some of the other major metropoli of Creation?


I think the Imperial City tops my wish list.


-S

 

[wordman]

I'm actively working on a fairly large map for Rathess. I aim to experiment with it's release and make the Illustrator file publicly available, with guidelines on how to edit it in a way that I can easily integrate changes back into the original. Not sure it will work.

 

[psychoph]

word do you always use illistrator?  


I am curious cause this woudl be somehting I would like to try making for settings i use over and over again but I haven't figure dout what woudl be a good prgram to do it in.  I am not a graphical person by nature so it woudl take a lot of practice on my part.

 

[wordman]

word do you always use illistrator?

I try to use vector editors like Illustrator for maps, because they can scale infinitely. Plus you can always rasterize them to png when you need them, but the reverse (png to vector) is difficult to impossible. The downside is that things like textures and blurring are harder to do in vector, so maps tend to have a "severe" look to them.


Whatever way you go, make sure to use software that supports layers. Building maps without them is a waste of time.

 

[Flagg]

Whatever way you go, make sure to use software that supports layers. Building maps without them is a waste of time.

Hear, hear. I learned the hard way.


-S

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

I believe Imperial City, Rathess as mentioned above and perhaps Gem would be a good addition to the maps. Maybe even Yu-Shan if you're REALLY ambitious. ^^;