I used to draw a lot during school, not lerning dat quadratic equation stuff. Give honest opinions please? Diagonal lines going over and over is out of bounds/ inaccessible. All maps shown will be redrawn with most all criticism taken into account. New images will be posted on a new forum for everyone to see right after E3. I'll also make a mock-up map that shows what all the symbols and such mean, so everyone can read it clearly. (Also, if anyone wants to make these or use parts of them I fine with it. Just don't be a ****er about it )
Incursion Think night-time raid by the police at the edge of the city. And a constant spotlight from a scouting helicopter/hornet that sticks to a route. (If you have questions on how to read my drawings I can draw up a dummy map that explains it)
Cloister I was thinking something like.. city building under construction. May remake, and and any other drawings posted here if people give good criticism. I'll also post all the remade drawings and new ones on a new thread right after E3.
Have you ever used sketchup? Its a free to download simple 3d modeling program made by Google. I think you could get a better sense of designing space with it. I started out on paper myself and found advantages of using both methods. Its a little more difficult to design spaces with intricate overlap on paper. I'm an artist myself and love your drawings. Very cleanly done, much better than mine
Oh F that S I'm not paying $50 a year on it. I used AutoCAD in Drafting class and it was easy, but I'm not going to use it on my phone.
the pro version of sketchup requires you to pay but they have a free version available. there is also blender.
I think the drawings are awesome! you're really good at making them mathematically accurate.. do you have any plans to forge them? I think it would be great to lay down some of these ideas then show pictures of the environment that you've created from the foundation up
Yea i am kinda wondering what your take is from a big-picture perspective.. you have the overview seemingly done so my question resides when you're drawing do you have any vision on a perspective like do you imagine certain designs in 3-dimensions? Do you have some idea for each area of each drawing like what vertical walls, the line-of-sight, or the scale or even the design? Do you have the objects in forge pretty memorized or are you unfamiliar with forge? I think either way is fine but one way, knowing the blocks, you may find a more realistic approach to creating in forge what you draw and the other, not knowing the blocks might make you be far less limited in creativity because of the ability to think outside of the limited number the forge palette provides.
The drawings aren't 100% what's going to be in the map. So if it looks like a path or courtyard would be 8 blocks long it's always open to being changed. Since it's an aerial view it's hard to tell line of sight and how routes would work. Even if I perfect a drawing the final map may even look different to make if play well.
I feel like if i were drawing them I will have the strong influence of a vision of not only what the walls might be like but also the line of sight and design of the map. I think this is a really good way to create a solid philosophical foundation for a map so i'm wanting to establish more clearly your mindset when you're drawing out this stuff
Do you think of that perspective when drawing overviews? I guess that is the real question in far less words
Yeah I do, only what's in an aerial view vs an actual 3d view are different. Something may seem closed off and have enough cover but when you're standing in it it's totally different