Gamerprinter's Map Emporeum

Jan van Leyden · Apr 22, 2014

gamerprinter said:
Here's a link to the posted map at ProFantasy forums: Cinnamon Island, a place of castaways.

Say, have you been successful in the competition?

gamerprinter · Apr 22, 2014

I haven't been notified regarding a win, so I doubt it. That's OK, I seldom use ProFantasy software, so I thought it might be worth giving the contest a try to possibly get free upgrades for the software of their's I do have. I have primarily used ProFantasy software as a facilitator of printing client maps created in CC3 or other applications. I've never used their software to design maps. Not that there's anything wrong with the software, but I am quite familiar with other software (mainly Xara Designer Pro 9) for creation of maps. So its no big deal.

Avaru · Apr 22, 2014

That river crossing was great. Not the style I use usually, but recently I had to improvise during a session ... and yeah, this thread is great for that if you have a tablet at the gaming table.

gamerprinter · Apr 24, 2014

Working on a set of 50 (not done yet) symbols for coral reefs: 6 sea plants, 17 varieties of coral, 2 versions of clam, blue crab, tiger shark, sting ray, dolphin, humpback whale, jellyfish, a squid and octopus. I need to create a dozen or so fish - including clown fish, trigger fish, puffer fish and a few more.

This is what I've created so far:

Jan van Leyden · Apr 24, 2014

Hmmh, the proportions of the larger dolphin's tail look weird... Though Wikipedia tells us about individuality of tail forms, I still have problems to accept it.

But otherwise your work is cool as usual!

gamerprinter · Apr 25, 2014

Jan van Leyden said:
Hmmh, the proportions of the larger dolphin's tail look weird... Though Wikipedia tells us about individuality of tail forms, I still have problems to accept it.

But otherwise your work is cool as usual!

That is no 'larger dolphin' rather that is a 'small humpback whale', though since both are cetaceans, they kind of look similar. If I posted the full size humpback, it would cover everything else!

Jan van Leyden · Apr 25, 2014

gamerprinter said:
That is no 'larger dolphin' rather that is a 'small humpback whale', though since both are cetaceans, they kind of look similar. If I posted the full size humpback, it would cover everything else!

Strange; some part of my editing of the post didn't survive the posting mechanism?

There should have been the word "humpback" instead of the "dolphin" there. Anyway, its tail looks like it couldn't provide it with a lot of propulsion.

gamerprinter · Apr 25, 2014

I might fix that humpback whale's tail on the model and render it again - texturing it was pretty easy, so its not a problem. I generally dislike doing anything twice, though, still it shouldn't be a problem to fix this.

For those interested in the process of working with 3D in the creation of these map objects, the following is not a full on tutorial, but it shows in step-by-step fashion how I create the 3D geometry using Nichimen Nendo, a subdivisional surface modeler, which I render in Raydream Studio. Finally, not shown, is the final colorized version of the object - in this case a clown fish. The included photo is one of the references images I used to create it. The final PNG alpha channel map object is posted at bottom.

gamerprinter · Apr 28, 2014

Jan van Leyden said:
Strange; some part of my editing of the post didn't survive the posting mechanism? There should have been the word "humpback" instead of the "dolphin" there. Anyway, its tail looks like it couldn't provide it with a lot of propulsion.

I improved the tail I think for the humpback whale symbol, and the color.