21 - Monastery of Realisminites and its vicinities [Pixie]

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Oh yes

That's why CC3 is so great at doing houses (apart form the shadows those houses cast on other rooftops). The actual shading within the rooftops is accurate to the closest degree. That's because each rooftop has what amounts to a normal map.

You will see it more clearly if you manage to find the ring of rooftops that Waldronate produced on one of the two main threads. I'll have a look and see if I can find it for you.

Found it!

https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...l=1#post324821

If you look at the rooftops in that circle of houses you can see that the highlight and shadow are at their most intense when the roof is angled perpendicular to the light direction, and that they are almost the same when they are close to parallel with it.

That's why I want to import my GIMP map into CC3 to paste the CC3 houses directly onto it, so that I don't have the headache of having to try and work out the roof shading myself.