The City of Esrye

[rpglandmaps]

On the edge of The kingdom Ryland surrounded by marsh land, to the south and the broad river to the north,. Sits the trading city of Esrye, Its changes has many a time and each ruler has left their mark on the castle defences and keep.

Ward Plan


This is my 5th 3d map for my sandboxed roleplay campaign, of varoius places in the Kingdom of Ryland (river land), I build the whole area down to street level with enough detail to let my players know whats there but space to add to from the story. This meens drawing all the houses, yards, land and trades etc as needed (i dont like prefab assest as I want a consitant look and feel, and not something that looks like others work. It can be alot of work, but my players enjoy the experiance.

3d view of main castle


3d view of suburbs


Top Down View of part of map


This is then projected onto the game table from a ceiling prjector, and i can Zoom, pan and even orbit around as the players move around, i even zoom right out for general player locating when they split up, and back to street level when things get narsty.







Many thanks, for viewing it was fun, and long to build this city, but i learnt alot from doing it and that was the plan. now to let players loose in the streets.

once again many thanks

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And even the seats of the players are cutom made !
This is the ultimate roleplaying ! Congratulations for all the work and effort !

[QED42]

Been really cool watching your progress on this one, it turned out amazing.

[Arimel]

I just sent a link of this article to my DM and while she thinks the map is amazing, she does not want me to expect anything near this for our next game!

Seriously though, this is a superb creation and the hard work clearly shows.

[rpglandmaps]

And even the seats of the players are cutom made !
This is the ultimate roleplaying ! Congratulations for all the work and effort !

HAHA... left over from carboard backs from halloween, wife told me i can get rid of them when i build real ones

Been really cool watching your progress on this one, it turned out amazing.

Thanks was a long slog, and i needed moral support hnce LOTS of posting on discord

I just sent a link of this article to my DM and while she thinks the map is amazing, she does not want me to expect anything near this for our next game!

Seriously though, this is a superb creation and the hard work clearly shows.

lol.. thanks, its alot of work, and if i can keep players here for awhile it will be worth it..

[Robulous]

Fascinating - what software did you use for the 3d maps?

[rpglandmaps]

Fascinating - what software did you use for the 3d maps?

Hi. I use quite a bit. Autocad and 3dsmax plus photoshop to draw the props. Then unity3d to place them on a stage but I also now write code to aid placement, its crude code no error trapping but helps with the workflow, so will write more

[Ilanthar]

This is just so very impressive!

[rpglandmaps]

so now the long (ish) procces of spliting up the map is under way
4 levels of zoom before i get to street level targeted exports, these ones are move dump, move etc..



my explorer looks like a shuffle puzzel

[rdanhenry]

Cool set up and a really nice castle, but one issue does appear to me:

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The West Way ----- The Great East Road

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North Quarter
The North Parse

Either these names aren't relative to the city or your compass points are out of order.