Conquer Club

Gnome wrote:I've been gone a long time...but your map got realy good
I don't like the territ borders that much but it's ok...I don't know what it is I don't like about them...maybe they look so unreal in your map...
But ya, I like it
Now only the legend...

KEYOGI wrote:A couple of obvious and quick improvements I have noticed. I'm not sure what your plans are with the Sanctuary territory, but the border is crowding the objects there. Maybe some better placement of border or object?

yeti_c has already mentioned text. Perhaps a less bold font would look better. Most of the objects on the map look flat and smooth. With some work on shading and textures you might be able to get more desirable castles, bridges, docks, etc.

The colouring on a few things looks a bit off. The beaches are more of a golden yellow rather than a sandy beach yellow. Water combined with the land, maybe I'm just being picky here, but the water gives me the sense of a tropical environment, while the grassy colour seems more suited to plains or highlands. Maybe a deeper more lush green for the land, or a greyish to green tinted water? I'm not sure what geography you're trying to represent, but I think it's important to consider if you're going for a colder climate or a warmer one and choose your colours to reflect this.

KEYOGI wrote:I still think the castles are a bit flat? Is a caslte made up from one layer? Perhaps working with multiple layers might help?

I think you misunderstand me with the beaches. I'm thinking more of a Gobi Desert colour in the Mongol Empire map.

Spockers wrote:ok Dim, am i missing something here?

I am looking at your small and large maps on the first page. They aren't the same.

Am I missing something, or is this wrong?

yeti_c wrote:The first post contains V13 - followed by V11...

They're not 2 different sizes - two different versions!!

C.

DiM wrote:

KEYOGI wrote:I still think the castles are a bit flat? Is a caslte made up from one layer? Perhaps working with multiple layers might help?

I think you misunderstand me with the beaches. I'm thinking more of a Gobi Desert colour in the Mongol Empire map.

i'll look and see what else i can do with the castles. as for the beaches i agree with hulmey.

yeti_c wrote:I suggest put some green tint into your blue(s)...

C.

cairnswk wrote:Hey DiM....you made it out of the cradle LOL. Congrats.
Also I like the roads a lot more now, they don't clash with the border lines so much. Good work.

hulmey wrote:i didnt relaise australia was beautiful..Thought it was full of kangroo's, rocks and empty XXXX's bottles!!!!

Out on the patio we’d sit,
And the humidity we’d breathe,
We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think, this is Australia.

cairnswk wrote:

hulmey wrote:i didnt relaise australia was beautiful..Thought it was full of kangroo's, rocks and empty XXXX's bottles!!!!

Some of it is like this hulmey, but other parts like my backyard here in cairns are green as, with great beaches, waterfalls, rainforests, eucalypt bushland that is full of kingfishers, kookaburras, magpies and sunbirds. You should broaden your horizons and come for a visit. Daily on my way to work i travel past large sugar cane fields that are currently begin harvested, and at night they burn the cane and the air is full of sweet syrup.
In the words of a great aussie song...

Out on the patio we’d sit,
And the humidity we’d breathe,
We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields
Laugh and think, this is Australia.

KEYOGI wrote:I agree with yeti_c about the water, still too blue.

Fair enough about the beaches, I guess I'm just used to the beaches we have here in Australia, even in our coldest climates the beaches are almost white.

cairnswk wrote:So DiM...where is this map up to please?
Are you waiting until the size restrictions are lifted so that you can progress it?

I sincerely hope it is not given up!

the map meets the size guidelines. as you can see i have supplied a standard 630*600 small version. but to do that i had to cut ~30 terits and i don't like it because i designed the map to have ~130 not 96. so this map is currently waiting to see if somehow the size restrictions will be lifted or at least bent.

if not then i guess i'll have to go on and either finish it with 96 terits or abandon it. i'm leaning more towards abandoning because i wanted to do something epic but 96 terits isn't epic and with the current size restrictions chapter 2 and 3 have to be redesigned and the story modified.

cairnswk wrote:if you know the current size restrictions are not going to be lifted in the immediate future, why don't you get a standard version up and running in the game play, and then later when the size restrictions POSSIBLY COME OFF or LARGER MAPS ALLOWED, then perhaps you can still keep the plans for the original large version you wanted. There is nothing to say that a map can't change later...look at the revamps.

I would prefer to see you have some satisfaction with this and meet in the middle than go off unsatisfied and remain that way until who know when.

With that...i am off to bed. Goodnight!