CC City Mogul [Quenched]

[DiM]

Indeed - and a blue print is a negative of the "white" print is it not?

With the white print being the one used in real terms - and the blue print being the archive from which to create multiple white prints?

Either way though - it's your choice...

C.

actually no. that process was introduced somewhere in middle of the last century.

but anyway you're right. it's my choice to do a blue print instead of a whiteprint because honestly whiteprints don't have feeling whereas blueprints do.
we should not be debating the use of a blue or white print but rather how to make the blueprint better.
as i said i have done several things to get that authenticity feeling. if anything else can be done without spoiling the image (*) i'm up for discussion and i will do it.

(*) i also wanted to include a tracing pen but it simply cluttered the image.

[cairnswk]

Perhaps i should qualify my "not being convinced" by saying that i find the total blue background simply garish....i was trying to be nice to you without offending.

[DiM]

Perhaps i should qualify my "not being convinced" by saying that i find the total blue background simply garish....i was trying to be nice to you without offending.

would a white background with blue lines be better?
i doubt it as it would be too damn white and boring

[Sir. Ricco]

Doing a good job DiM.

[DiM]

Doing a good job DiM.

thanks mate.

[InkL0sed]

I think what really bothers me about this map is those little childish drawings of buildings and stuff. They don't fit in with the style of the rest of the map at all.

[DiM]

I think what really bothers me about this map is those little childish drawings of buildings and stuff. They don't fit in with the style of the rest of the map at all.

so you say a more serious drawing would be better?

i can easily do that. in fact i found it more difficult creating those than it was to create something serious.

but they really do fit. or at least in my vision they do. imagine a few kids finding their dad's old blueprint of the city and drawing little houses and shops and then playing risk on that blueprint. they drew a few things and then they scotch taped some instructions on the blue print and started playing. at least that's what i had in mind.

[InkL0sed]

I see what you mean, but it still just seems out of place. It works on Doodle Earth because that's the theme of the map, but this map isn't particularly about children. Also, if it really was a bunch of kids coming upon their dad's blueprint, would their drawings have a neon glow? Besides the fact that they don't look good, it all just seems kind of random.

[DiM]

I see what you mean, but it still just seems out of place. It works on Doodle Earth because that's the theme of the map, but this map isn't particularly about children. Also, if it really was a bunch of kids coming upon their dad's blueprint, would their drawings have a neon glow? Besides the fact that they don't look good, it all just seems kind of random.

what seems random?

[InkL0sed]

I see what you mean, but it still just seems out of place. It works on Doodle Earth because that's the theme of the map, but this map isn't particularly about children. Also, if it really was a bunch of kids coming upon their dad's blueprint, would their drawings have a neon glow? Besides the fact that they don't look good, it all just seems kind of random.

what seems random?

The drawings. There's nothing else to suggest on the map that it's a blueprint a bunch of kids decided to make into a risk board.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I feel.

[DiM]

I see what you mean, but it still just seems out of place. It works on Doodle Earth because that's the theme of the map, but this map isn't particularly about children. Also, if it really was a bunch of kids coming upon their dad's blueprint, would their drawings have a neon glow? Besides the fact that they don't look good, it all just seems kind of random.

what seems random?

The drawings. There's nothing else to suggest on the map that it's a blueprint a bunch of kids decided to make into a risk board.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I feel.

yea you're right. i know they're kids cause i'm thinking it but you're right. i'll see what i can do. i have a few ideas and i'll implement them when i get home.

maybe adding a few dice, perhaps some risk troops or something like that?

maybe a peanut butter covered fingerprint?

[InkL0sed]

maybe adding a few dice, perhaps some risk troops or something like that?

maybe a peanut butter covered fingerprint?

I like it

[DiM]

maybe adding a few dice, perhaps some risk troops or something like that?

maybe a peanut butter covered fingerprint?

I like it

will do after i get home and sleep.
if you have any suggestions to further enhance this feeling feel free to post them. however i'd like something subtle (like the fingerprint) cause i don't want to clutter the image.

[InkL0sed]

Maybe if you made it so you could tell the whole thing is just a sheet of paper? Like making it so there's some kind of frame, and the edges of the map itself curling up like paper, or held down by a stone or something.

[DiM]

Maybe if you made it so you could tell the whole thing is just a sheet of paper? Like making it so there's some kind of frame, and the edges of the map itself curling up like paper, or held down by a stone or something.

can't you see it's paper? i mean it has 2 horizontal folds, it has a crease in the top right, it has various shadows to highlight the fact that the the map is a 3d paper. but i guess i can add some corner curling.

i'm gonna go eat and i'll be back in an hour or 2 and start the update.