Gallic wars(last update: July 3rd 2013)

by **Aleena** on Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:33 pm

i like the wood bottom better it seems to cut up and highlight Capital tribes - River and trees line - makes it pop more, feels better to me.

by **Bruceswar** on Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:12 pm

If you clean up the wood it could look nice. Also your rivers look very choppy. Maybe you can redraw those, or smooth them out.

Your bonus borders... the darker lines are also choppy. Try smoothing those out. Cleaner is better.

by **mcshanester29** on Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:40 pm

I also agree that the wood looks the best if its cleaned up a bit!! The battle markers look a bit fuzzy as well as the tree/hedge borders

by **waauw** on Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:55 pm

mcshanester29 wrote:I also agree that the wood looks the best if its cleaned up a bit!! The battle markers look a bit fuzzy as well as the tree/hedge borders

will work on the wood tomorrow. making decent shadows to try and create some perspective is harder than it seemed at first.
And about the battle markers, they are vague cuz they are so small. Prettylooking pics at pictogramsize are a thoughy. But if you want I can try something else like a roman shield or a helmet. but that'll be for tomorrow too.

Lastly the hedges, I'll try and see whether I can make some hills/mountains, maybe that'll look better. It might fit better in the Alps anyway.

by **Bruceswar** on Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:50 pm

What program are you using? If it is photoshop I can help you out.

by **waauw** on Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:05 am

Bruceswar wrote:What program are you using? If it is photoshop I can help you out.

GIMP

by **Bruceswar** on Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:07 pm

Seamus76 can help you if you get into a bind!

by **waauw** on Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:23 am

Bruceswar wrote:Seamus76 can help you if you get into a bind!

well if he offers to help, I have no problem with it.
But I'm not gonna disturb him myself. I'm sure he's got plenty to do already.

by **Bruceswar** on Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:23 am

waauw wrote:
Bruceswar wrote:Seamus76 can help you if you get into a bind!

well if he offers to help, I have no problem with it.
But I'm not gonna disturb him myself. I'm sure he's got plenty to do already.

Just saying he knows gimp pretty well.

by **waauw** on Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:27 am

Here's some changes I made meanwhile:

smoothed out some borders and some rivers
tried to change the wood a bit

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still have to see if I can find something different as a battle-icon and need to draw some mountains and redraw the trees. But what do you think of the wood now?

by **Bruceswar** on Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:30 am

It is still overlapping in the middle. Can you not shorten the small lat of wood so it does stick out next to e-gaul?

by **waauw** on Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:21 am

Bruceswar wrote:It is still overlapping in the middle. Can you not shorten the small lat of wood so it does stick out next to e-gaul?

oh right, will fix it, thx!

by **waauw** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:34 am

changes:

trees ==> mountains
banners ==> helmets
shortened the width of the uppercorner wood

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watcha think?

by **Aleena** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:11 am

I love the helmets

by **dolomite13** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:16 am

The boxes with letters on the right if the unit rectangles might be better on the left as the unit numbers will run off the right side in games with where units grow above 3 digits. That does happen more often than you might think.

Overall love the concept for this map and look forward to playing it.

=D13=

by **waauw** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:00 pm

dolomite13 wrote:The boxes with letters on the right if the unit rectangles might be better on the left as the unit numbers will run off the right side in games with where units grow above 3 digits. That does happen more often than you might think.

Overall love the concept for this map and look forward to playing it.

=D13=

Hadn't thought about that, thx!

by **waauw** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:42 pm

ok put them to the left

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by **Bruceswar** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:09 pm

you still need to fix the wood... but looking better.

by **Aleena** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:01 pm

ya, and Bruce would know about wood - he helped me out with his wood when I was lacking too..

by **mcshanester29** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:42 pm

I like the updates you have done. The helmets look a lot better as well as using mountains instead of hedges for impassable borders.

The bridge above Aduatuca is off as its not crossing the river.

by **greenoaks** on Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:26 pm

i thought the scrolls looked better than the wood. i am seeing a map in a wooden frame, with scrolls of additional info unfurled on it.

my impression of the Roman times was info was contained in scrolls, not stacked in bulky wooden frames.