[Abandoned] - The Trojan War

Guiscard · Post by **Guiscard** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:54 am

My guess would be Troy as well:

yeti_c · Post by **yeti_c** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:26 am

Guiscard wrote:My guess would be Troy as well:

Most conclusive proof yet...

C.

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:41 am

Here is small 4 territory island. They grow grapes, make wine,do a little fishing, and worship their god.

keep in mind, this map will no look exactly l like a satellite map of the area, some things will out of of scale for gameplay reasons.

yeti_c · Post by **yeti_c** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:49 am

That looks a bit like Stonehenge...

I'm going with Camelot!!

Then again - That's in the middle of the countryside... no water is near that!!

C.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:12 am

wow mibi! can u give me some tips on how tou created that! it looks amazing!!!

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:31 am

spinwizard wrote:wow mibi! can u give me some tips on how tou created that! it looks amazing!!!

created what?

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:12 pm

the map in general, the textures, rivers and island, how did you learn to do that!

vtmarik · Post by **vtmarik** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:14 pm

I think I see Stonehenge...

Ancient UK Map? Camelot? King Arthur?

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:22 pm

spinwizard wrote:the map in general, the textures, rivers and island, how did you learn to do that!

i learned it through years of working with photoshop. For the next 'continent' I will try to make a photoshop action. Im not sure if you know what that is, but it allows you to recreate something I've done in photoshop. It may not work out but I will give it a shot. Ofcourse you need photoshop to use it.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:25 pm

sounds cool, but how did you do the detail...would it be do-able in fireworks?

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:31 pm

spinwizard wrote:sounds cool, but how did you do the detail...would it be do-able in fireworks?

well most of the detail and texture is just drawn in, with a 1px brush. the buildings are several steps, out line the buildings with the polygon lasso, fill with color, add drop shadow, add 1px stroke on new layer, move the stroke layer down one pixel, then sketch on top of the buildings with a darker brush.

the river is just a downward outer bevel.

the trees are a 1 or 2 pixel square brush with some hue jittering and a small drop shadow.

the ocean is just lots of sketching with a brush at dark blue at 15% opacity, over and over until it gets dark enough.

Evil Pope · Post by **Evil Pope** » Wed May 09, 2007 3:28 pm

ericwdhs wrote:haha... I initially thought of Jerusalem but they had pretty accurate maps of it back then and that section doesn't look like it's anything from any maps I've seen. mibi sounds like he's implying that it's something a little less documented. Though I haven't had time to look into it, I had thought about Carthage, Tripoli, Constantinople, and Troy as possible locations this could be. Maybe it's Rome. Maybe it's Thermopylae. It could be anything for all we know right now. It would have to be an important battle to deserve a map this massive though. Jerusalem would be cool map though if that's what it is...

Yeah.. I originally considered all of those.. I couldn't find a map of constantinople and I don't think its shapped right for that anyway, Couldn't find one of Carthage, Couldn't find a one of troy that was relatively similar to this map, and then there was a reallly small one of jerusalem that I could barely see.. But it appeared close enough for me..

But i'm sure its Jerusalem or Troy.. I can't think of any other possibility.

RjBeals · Post by **RjBeals** » Wed May 09, 2007 3:40 pm

I love it! You've got some real photoshop skills. And I've always wanted a huge map with that many territories. I hope you don't get caught up with other summer activities - stay in and finish this map !!

pepperonibread · Post by **pepperonibread** » Wed May 09, 2007 3:47 pm

Alright, all of the suspense is about to end.
mibi has secretly given me the entire finished map, and made me promise not to show it to anyone. However, I am about to break that promise to please everyone. Here it is:

I know what you're thinking: A temple? Over 1,000 years old? How could I not see it?

Ninja-Town · Post by **Ninja-Town** » Wed May 09, 2007 3:59 pm

Here is small 4 territory island. They grow grapes, make wine,do a little fishing, and worship their god.

Good clue

My guess Constantinople, and the turkish siege.

poo-maker · Post by **poo-maker** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:03 pm

pepperonibread wrote:Alright, all of the suspense is about to end.
mibi has secretly given me the entire finished map, and made me promise not to show it to anyone. However, I am about to break that promise to please everyone. Here it is:

I know what you're thinking: A temple? Over 1,000 years old? How could I not see it?

I usually just browse through the maps, but this really had me LOLing. :lol:

Man, thats soooooo funny :lol:

Guiscard · Post by **Guiscard** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:08 pm

Not Constantinople surely...

Ninja-Town · Post by **Ninja-Town** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:18 pm

Good point....

Tyre? Minoa?

kwanton · Post by **kwanton** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:25 pm

pepperonibread wrote:Alright, all of the suspense is about to end.
mibi has secretly given me the entire finished map, and made me promise not to show it to anyone. However, I am about to break that promise to please everyone. Here it is:

I know what you're thinking: A temple? Over 1,000 years old? How could I not see it?

ROFLOLMAOBBQSAUCEZOMG

someone needs to make that.

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:30 pm

pepperonibread wrote:Alright, all of the suspense is about to end.
mibi has secretly given me the entire finished map, and made me promise not to show it to anyone. However, I am about to break that promise to please everyone. Here it is:

I know what you're thinking: A temple? Over 1,000 years old? How could I not see it?

WTF!.. did you hack my hard drive? ...

well the secret it out. time to add armies shadows i guess.

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:34 pm

Here is another 4 territory continent. Some people are buried there in the tombs. One is the son of a king. They also have a place to worship.

hulmey · Post by **hulmey** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:03 pm

wow ur fuckin amazing mibi

ericwdhs · Post by **ericwdhs** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:10 am

It's definitely Troy. If it's not, it would still be perfect for it. The island is Lemnos (their god is Hephaestus). The grave is Hector's.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:27 am

hulmey wrote:wow ur fuckin amazing mibi

have 2 agree there

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:44 am

ericwdhs wrote:It's definitely Troy. If it's not, it would still be perfect for it. The island is Lemnos (their god is Hephaestus). The grave is Hector's.

And I have to agree there.

[Abandoned] - The Trojan War

Should I continue with this map?