Absolutely stunning work! I am definatley borrowing these for the keep parts of my campaign.
How's it coming with level 2?
that's awesome Do you have any tips fro creating really wellmade maps(like yours), how did you create the square pattern, where do you get your textures from? i have been really inspired by your work, and will probably try to create some maps of my own for the future adventures of my D&D group, all because of you Cheers mate
I can't give you any pro tips, since I'm a newbie myself and this is my first map I started with
However I can tell you how I got started with making maps and getting pretty good looking textures fairly quickly. I got Filterforge at a holiday sale. With it you get 1000's of textures, that is easy to scale, color and recreate for your own purpose. It's a really good photoshop plugin. It will even work standalone. But it's best to use with photoshop.
As for the objects I mostly just create them myself from scratch. It's easier then it looks once you get started. Get a reference of what you want and just start making it. And with filterforge you also will have a easy time giving your objects textures.
So the main thing I would recommend is getting filterforge if you already have photoshop. BUT wait for them to have a sale. I got the basic version 75% off. Or else it's pretty expensive.
Everything thing else is just layers upon layers of items that all create what you see. 1 layer with cracks, 1 layer with dirt, one layer with slime etc.. Download the .psd I have linked in one of the other posts to see how I created this.
Oh and remember to check the turtorials here. Many of them are very good at getting your started.
And one last thing. A good little filter for creating your grid is this: Grid Generator
Hope that helps
Last edited by cadric; 04-14-2011 at 10:57 AM.
btw filterforge have a trial. So try that first and see if its something for you.