So, what are you working on right now?

[Capela]

@Baddcog, very nice atmosphere in your pics. Is that waterfalls?

[Baddcog]

Thanks, yep patches for the water fall and particles/sound were ripped from bikerdude's map..

[Bikerdude]

Thanks, yep patches for the water fall and particles/sound were ripped from bikerdude's map..

nice to see there is still some life left in them :-)

[RPGista]

Bad - nice "urban shape", would be cool to see it from a playing pov though, seems to me like you could get some interesting views from down there.

[Baddcog]

Yeah that area is still a bit lacking on small details so i just wanted to give an over view. maybe in a week or so it'll be more interesting up close.

[Baal]

My first attempt at drawing maps (using GIMP, WIP):

 

[Sotha]

Looks very similar to the maps I made for my missions: simple, conveys the space well, but not very fancy. (That's what maps are for )

 

I use Inkscape: I have a .png parchment file around, then I draw on it with black and enough transparency. Inkscape does vectors, so you can grab the lines and twist them a bit to make them look more "hand-written". After that I export into png->tga->dds.

 

I feel the actual drawing is easier than in GIMP, but that's preference I suppose...

 

Oh, and remember to make sure that white background is transparent in the final file! It's annoying to do afterwards...

[Baal]

Thanks. It is supposed to look like an ink sketch. I've done this using a path of beziercurves drawn with the ink tool. GIMP can export and import .svg so I could try Inkscape to. It's propably better suited to the task.

The white background is a result of the jpg conversion. The source has transparency.

[Bikerdude]

Nice map mista!

[Obsttorte]

When I make a map I draw it on a white piece of paper and then scan it. Than I set white to alpha in gimp and put it over the blank map shipped with the startmap. It's a pretty easy way to do it as it does not require much work to be done.

[Baal]

But some people can't draw and have to have the computer do that for them.

[Obsttorte]

If you've played my first FM and took a look at the map you knew I can't draw either.

[Sotha]

But some people can't draw and have to have the computer do that for them.

 

100% agree...

[Bikerdude]

But some people can't draw and have to have the computer do that for them.

Ah but, I like the sound of that. OS, can you do me a basic tut for gimp on how to convert my A4 drawing etc..?

[Obsttorte]

Ah but, I like the sound of that. OS, can you do me a basic tut for gimp on how to convert my A4 drawing etc..?

• draw your map
  
• scan it as text (so the whole background is white)
  
• open it in gimp, there is an option called "color to alpha", use the color white (#FFFFFF)
  
• rectangle select it, cut it out
  
• open the blank paper from the startmap package in gimp (its called map_of_)
  
• insert the cutted map into it, drag-resize it
  
• export it as png or tga or whatever file format is used for maps (can't remember now)
  
• drink a stout
  

[RPGista]

If you take a scanned pencil drawing,and load it on photoshop/gimp, put it on a layer over the paper image and set the drawing's layer to multiply - this will get rid of the white background and blend the pencilled lines over the lower layer. Is this what you mean?

 

PS: didnt see Obs' post.

Edited February 7, 2013 by RPGista

[Bikerdude]

• drink a stout
  

Or a nice cup of Tea.

[Serpentine]

... conversion process...

 

Yup, that's pretty much it. I'd just recommend if you're using colour to alpha rather than multiply, that you make a duplicate layer or two and blur them slightly, then multiply those under the alpha layer. Makes things look a bit more used and organic

[Theothesnopp]

 

[Baal]

I can't see much but I like the lighting in these shots. The hallway could use some decoration (columns, beams, trims, furniture etc).

[Sotha]

Lots of activity around here, so why not keep the action on by showing a WIP image:

[Moonbo]

Nice! How'd you put together that crumbling wall? Are those bricks just func_statics?

Edited February 8, 2013 by Moonbo

[Sotha]

Just make a brick brush. Align texture nicely so that the brick brush is one 'stone.' Then make a depression into a wall and add those bricks into the depression. Rotate each of the bricks a bit so that they look broken. Apply some texture into the depression so that the brickwork looks older or more rotten in the damage area. Put some bricks on the floor in front of the wall damage. Done.

 

I made that damage into an .ase model detail module so that I can add wall damage wherever I please just by smacking the model into the depression in a wall. Each of the bricks on the floor are a single brick model I can scatter around.

[SeriousToni]

Why burns the candle that much yellow?

[Bikerdude]

The thing is that type of eye candy takes ages compared to other mapping tasks.

 

Very nice work there Sotha :-)