Map for my fictional short history.

Stone Goblin · Post by **Stone Goblin** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:24 pm

I don't know if this should be in stories(Moderaters go ahead and move this if it's required), it's a map I did for my website's fictional short history of my castle factions. I hope to get the website up soon so you can see the other maps and how they relate to each other.
This link is for the geography map version.
Hope you enjoy.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1435219
Any comments welcomed.
(Edit: sorry, how do I do that, I'm new to this stuff)
Is this it:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=149459
Or this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stone ... iginal.gif

TheOrk · Post by **TheOrk** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:26 pm

It's not public, deeplink it

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:50 am

Nice-looking map, very professional-looking, although the general absence of names, etc, is a bit detracting, in my mind.

Are you planning on posting any of the story here? If not, then this is a thread focussed on the map, which means it belongs in Publishing, where I'll move it.

If you are planning on putting up parts of the story here, then I'll move it back...

~Michael A. Joosten - Moderator~

Stone Goblin · Post by **Stone Goblin** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:59 am

Publising! This location is fine. I'm not planning on releasing stories on the forum, just a link to the site when it's done(under announcments).
The map is actually just the original blank slate version. The website version has the locations marked with numbers and there is a legend on the side. I was just showing it for it's landscape look, this isn't the finished product.

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:31 am

That map is cool!

How did you do that, in terms of software? I like it very much... looking forward to see what will happen there

Stone Goblin · Post by **Stone Goblin** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:32 pm

Ottoatm

How did you do that, in terms of software? I like it very much... looking forward to see what will happen there

I used Adobe Photoshop 5.0 on my Apple G5. I created the terrain in separately little 20x20 pixels parts(individual mountain and forest patches) and used layers to move pieces around. I didn't use a paintbrush tool, I used a pencil tool with 1 pixel. Notice the waves along the continent, I did that with one pixel tool took me about 4 hours to do, my wrist hurt for a while after that, there probably was an easier and faster way to do that technique.

I created little armies and locations for the map like these(this is just a few of them):
Armies/Infantry

Lions

Dragons
Cavalry/Heavy Cavalry

Lions

Ka Lu
Air Units/Dragons

Dragons
Sea Fleet

Lions
Fort Davnee

Lions

Actual Fort Davnee pics here.

eNiGMa · Post by **eNiGMa** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:41 pm

Wow, that's pretty cool! I truly want to try that. Thanks for sharing!

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:53 pm

wow... not only is that unique - it's very creative! I love this... it looks like you could re-create the old Sid Meir's Civilization games... only in LEGO, so it would be even better.

I really can't wait to see how you use this map and the troop icons.