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Map Design -- Need for Critique!

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Kitsuta

PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:07 pm


I need critiques for this map. It is for a gaian community/neighborhood. Basically, people join, claim lot numbers, and their RP character then owns that house on the map. This is a map another crew member of the guild made that I helped with. We would like any suggestions for improvement.

Image is here!

ALL critiques are welcomed. I did not do most of the map, and I am use to pretty harsh criticism anyway. Fire away please! domokun
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:43 pm


Thats really nicely done! Great little neighborhood. Suggestion: it would be cool to make it an image map, so that when a person clicks on a specific lot, it links to that person's house/rp/whatever. I think there are some tutorials around somewhere on Gaia... and its easy to do image maps with Dreamweaver.

Like this one that I did for work, except it would be a bit different to enable you to post it on Gaia.

Chisa
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Catani

PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:10 pm


Hmm... i agree with chisa's idea
and maybe you should add some tones to the paths (maybe a lttle darker to the sides of the paths, so the pattern would be less obvious) and grass (where the houses are, maybe some small shadows from the houses, they stand out from the map a little)
PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:09 am


I really like it, it looks great! My only concern is that in some places the path is straight and perfect and it others it is really wavy, this makes it look like parts of it can't be made our of the same bricks...

Raine Dragon

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Kitsuta

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:37 pm


Chisa
Thats really nicely done! Great little neighborhood. Suggestion: it would be cool to make it an image map, so that when a person clicks on a specific lot, it links to that person's house/rp/whatever. I think there are some tutorials around somewhere on Gaia... and its easy to do image maps with Dreamweaver.

Like this one that I did for work, except it would be a bit different to enable you to post it on Gaia.


Actually, that was the plan! I already have Jakobo's image map tutorial bookmarked for reference when we do that. I was hoping to perfect the map first. 3nodding

Da_ta: Thanks for the ideas!

Raine Dragon: Hmm, yes, I did part of the path and then Simone did the rest of it. We will have to discuss whether or not we want to redo it so that most of the path is wavy.. we may have a big circle path and then the inside a bit smaller and straighter. 3nodding

EDIT: We talked a bit and decided that I would redo all the paths. I am also hand drawing the bricks.

... gonk
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