{"id":316,"date":"2009-09-12T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=316"},"modified":"2009-09-12T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T09:56:35","slug":"recreating-the-carnival-at-marda-zam-part-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Recreating The Carnival at Marda-Zam &#8211; part nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to be back for some good old mapmaking.<br \/>\nI think I will use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraffle\/\" target=\"_blank\">OmniGraffle<\/a> for this map, just to show you a different technique. OmniGraffle is not a map making software, but a pretty generic but very powerful object oriented drawing tool, for Mac OS X. I have no clue what you might use on Windows that works the same way?<br \/>\nThis is how the cellar map looked in the original adventure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-317\" title=\"handout-4\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/handout-4.gif\" alt=\"handout-4\" width=\"397\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re gonna make this map look real nice, using some of many different techniques.<\/p>\n<p>First, we set up OmniGraffle to with a two page layout, out map budget for this map, and then we set it to handle the grid.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"omnisettings\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/omnisettings.jpg\" alt=\"omnisettings\" width=\"264\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, we use our artistic freedom and draw the map, trying to set the stairs in a location that will nicely map with the ground floor stairs. We draw the outline of the cellar as one multi-line object. This way we can fill it with wall texture in a simple way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-320\" title=\"Outline-basement\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Outline-basement.gif\" alt=\"Outline-basement\" width=\"587\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is out basic cellar outline, fitting two pages. Tomorrow, we&#8217;re going to add some textures to the wall and floors, and add some shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to be back for some good old mapmaking. I think I will use OmniGraffle for this map, just to show you a different technique. OmniGraffle is not a map making software, but a pretty generic but very powerful object oriented drawing tool, for Mac OS X. I have no clue what you might use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure_creation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}