CLASSIC CITIES: Sydney [Quenched]

[Nola_Lifer]

Hey, the border lines are thicker in some spots; i.e., S.E. Suburbs and Southern Highlands, while most of the others are thinner. Love how clean this map looks.

[cairnswk]

Hey, the border lines are thicker in some spots; i.e., S.E. Suburbs and Southern Highlands, while most of the others are thinner. Love how clean this map looks.

Yes that was in my last post that i was still in process of fixing that

[chapcrap]

Hey, the border lines are thicker in some spots; i.e., S.E. Suburbs and Southern Highlands, while most of the others are thinner. Love how clean this map looks.

That whole statement sounds like an oxymoron.

[cairnswk]

Hey, the border lines are thicker in some spots; i.e., S.E. Suburbs and Southern Highlands, while most of the others are thinner. Love how clean this map looks.

That whole statement sounds like an oxymoron.

chapcrap, i appreciate your post, but critisizing other's posts will only serve to deter them from posting, and there is little enough proactive posting done in the foundry these days. I would rather keep quiet than offer something that doesn't advance or encourage the map if i can't find domething decent to say.

[chapcrap]

Hey, the border lines are thicker in some spots; i.e., S.E. Suburbs and Southern Highlands, while most of the others are thinner. Love how clean this map looks.

That whole statement sounds like an oxymoron.

chapcrap, i appreciate your post, but critisizing other's posts will only serve to deter them from posting, and there is little enough proactive posting done in the foundry these days. I would rather keep quiet than offer something that doesn't advance or encourage the map if i can't find domething decent to say.

Are you trying to discourage me from posting?

I was just saying that it doesn't make sense what he said. He says that the borders aren't that great and then calls the map clean. That's contradictory. It wasn't a personal attack.

[cairnswk]

Hey, the border lines are thicker in some spots; i.e., S.E. Suburbs and Southern Highlands, while most of the others are thinner. Love how clean this map looks.

That whole statement sounds like an oxymoron.

chapcrap, i appreciate your post, but critisizing other's posts will only serve to deter them from posting, and there is little enough proactive posting done in the foundry these days. I would rather keep quiet than offer something that doesn't advance or encourage the map if i can't find domething decent to say.

Are you trying to discourage me from posting?

I was just saying that it doesn't make sense what he said. He says that the borders aren't that great and then calls the map clean. That's contradictory. It wasn't a personal attack.

I realise what you were saying. Why would i want to disourage you from posting when i have already stated there is not enough posting. But there is a line that gets crossed quite often. If you don't have anything pleasant to say instead of picking on the way someone posts, then...gees, i don't know, go throw those thoughts at another forum.
Why pick on someone's post...when none of us are perfect.

[cairnswk]

Version 15
1. Fixed the border lines for consistency
2. added a hard drop shadow to image texts.

[Nola_Lifer]

Stamp time?

[cairnswk]

Stamp time?

Appreciate your sentiments Nola_Lifer, but let this sit for a while and give people a chance to see what it what...there may be some things that need attention.

[cairnswk]

Version 16

1. Tidied the mini-map legend for name positions
2. Re-orgnised the legend to give some eye-space in there and make things seem less crowded.

[RedBaron0]

I think the mountains can be better, they're primarily line art atm.
The road in the legend is darker than the roads on the map itself for consistency they should be the same color.
The bevel on the western edge of the map is kinda distracting and seems more like a blue blob is creeping from the left over the map. It's probably better flat and with a bit of texture.
The bridge between kurrajong and richmond has the wrong color on the kurrajong side.

[cairnswk]

I think the mountains can be better, they're primarily line art atm.

I guess you are talking about the legend mountain indicators...i agree, but the others...wrong....they are a mixture of vector lines and painted bitmap undertones.
I think the non-legend ones are fine for what i want, i'll try to improve some of the shapes around Falconbridge.

The road in the legend is darker than the roads on the map itself for consistency they should be the same color.

Fixed

The bevel on the western edge of the map is kinda distracting and seems more like a blue blob is creeping from the left over the map. It's probably better flat and with a bit of texture.

i disagree. i think it fulfills my purpose of separating the map from the actual map whilst providing resemblance of some height without having a great big long chain of mountains running the full length of the map...i think texture would be distracting to reading the legend considering it's a dark colour.

The bridge between kurrajong and richmond has the wrong color on the kurrajong side.

Fixed.

[koontz1973]

cairnswk, forgive me but not really looked in for a while. But one thing that really popped out at me is this.
You seem to have 4 different edges to the map, I have circled them and am just wondering why the different styles for the one map?

Click image to enlarge.

Just noticed as posting this, at Blue mountains national park, you have a white glow poking its head out from under the mountains on the left (just above the yellow line). Is this necessary and if not, can it be removed.

[cairnswk]

cairnswk, forgive me but not really looked in for a while. But one thing that really popped out at me is this.
You seem to have 4 different edges to the map, I have circled them and am just wondering why the different styles for the one map?
...
Just noticed as posting this, at Blue mountains national park, you have a white glow poking its head out from under the mountains on the left (just above the yellow line). Is this necessary and if not, can it be removed.

koontz...that whole piece from below the dam lake at bottom to top of map is one bevel set on 175 degrees.
that's why there is a difference in places because of the light on angles. the blue and yellow result from the same treatment of the bevel on a top/bottom edge. the yellow is painted on that BM NP territory to create similar effect so that territory appears to rise above the surrounding landscape.
i really don't see what the problem is with this
I don't understand what the white glow is about...

[koontz1973]

Sorry cairns, it just looks like 4 different ones to me but I understand your explanation.