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Sep

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Time to get our self dirty with the nitty gritty of map decorations. For map mapmakers, the internet is a good resource, and for Dundjinni users, the forum has tens of thousands of images that you can use, most of them even in commercial adventures.But I will start as I usually do, to create a table and some stools to fill up the first room, where they Bladdish game is held. Yes, I know, I will explain what kind of game that is, later on, when we come to the adventure part of this story, so far it is about making the maps that goes with the story, one thing at a time.

By using my favorite texture map tool, FilterForge (http://www.filterforge.com/ ), and a few filters I have made, I created these two images, that will be the base for our table and our stools. I show the texture used for the table here.

tablewood

Now, I assemble the stools, this time I do not 3D render them, but simple build them i OmniGraffle, like this, using a two different wood textures, one for the eat and one for the legs, the seat is run through a FilterForge filter to make a texture round with a little bevel, the same filter i ran on the table texture above (The Filter).

stoolbuild

And now we can start to assemble our game tables.

table_1

But is does look kind of dull don’t you think, we need to spice it up. So, this time I went to the Dundjinni forum and search around a little and I also looked in my pretty large collection of prop images, and created a little overlay for the tables, like this. I made three different overlays, so that all tables would not look exactly the same.

table_overlay

I also created a game table cloth for Bladdish for all tables, so here they are, all three:

table-present-1table-present-2table-present-3

I installed those new graphic props into Dundjinnis data hierarchy, in my own private folder, and then used them in dundjinni. Dundjinni do come with alot of built in graphics, but you can never have too many props, trust me.

And, after adding a little more to the map, it now looks like this. The backyard is an important location for this adventure.

golden_fox_2

Tomorrow, we will use some more props to populate the rest of the inn, the restaurant, the kitchen and so on. We will also add some final touches to the map.

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