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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6501178" data-attributes="member: 50895">Well I use vector software, so there are no pixels until I export the image to bitmap format. An existing grid of points lay on the blank drawing space, and since I primarily design at 1 inch = 5 foot scale for encounter maps, as I draw a room, I can visibly see what size it is as I create - if I want to create a 20' x 50' space, its easily done. I do create in stages where initially all interior spaces are connected series of rectangles and other shapes, then I combine all objects as a single object. Next I create an exterior space that encompasses all the interior space with space for walls. I place this below the interior structure shape, then combine both shapes subtracting the interior space from the exterior shape and the entire structure is created. I apply a stone, dirt or whatever appropriate image fill into the shape, apply bevels and shadows and an entire castle, temple or other building is created.I literally do not ever go back and "correct things". If I thought I could do the gatehouse better (for example), I would not, rather I would do a better gatehouse on the next map I create a castle. My primary goal in creating maps is to get it done in a reasonable amount of time. I know many cartographers that spend days and days, even weeks to complete a map. Only with the most complex maps do I spend more than one day in its creation - like the hand-drawn map of the City of Kasai for the Jade Regent AP for Paizo with 8500 buildings which took me 4 days to create. Because I get so much created in such a short amount of time, if I took the extra steps of going back and correcting this or that, I'd never finish in a timely manner. As stated above on my previous post I generally create maps in one sitting of 4 to 6 hours from start to finish.Consider my most recent map, a <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?257465-Gamerprinter-s-Map-Emporeum/page16&p=6499336#post6499336" target="_blank">bronze age village</a> with ringed hillforts, henge circle, barrow down and a trackway across the countryside. While I have a grid to work with, all this work was eyeballed for scale. The map took me 5 hours to create from start to finish. I created the hillfort first. After I created the henge circle, I eyeballed the roundhouses on the hillfort to scale appropriately to the henge circle which I used as my "scaling agent".Consider that I create hundreds of maps each year. I don't map everyday, but nearly so. You're free not to believe me, but I'm speaking truth here. Its not that I am that good (although I am quite good), its that I'm unwilling to go back and undo anything already created - I'm stubborn that way.</blockquote>

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