Thursday, January 13, 2011

3D Hex Map

I've been experimenting with 3D wilderness terrain hex tiles and whipped up a sample map I felt like sharing.


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A really cool feature about doing the map in 3D is I can also generate a 3D view from one of the hexes. The shot is looking West-Northwest from one of the bottom right hand hexes on the map.


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With such a hex map it'd be technically possible to generate shots to answer such questions as "what do we see to the west"? It could also (more realistically) be used to generate scenery art of places and views that actually are on a campaign map.
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:10 PM

    I've used Google Earth to similar effect but I like the potential of using this for a fantasy world. :)

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  2. Michael S/ChgowizJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    What tool(s) are you using?

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  3. UnknownJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM

    Man your maps are GORGEOUS as always. Love the landscape :D

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  4. JDJarvisJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    @CW, I used Carrara and Photoshop. The only thing I did with photoshop was cropping the image, image sizing and deleting a black background on the map view.

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