Thanks. I'm really cheap so didn't use pro-fantasy. And I want to develop skills in more broadly applicable tools (ie. Affinity Photo).
Here is another one I did using the MFCG. This is an underwater city, in Buttermere Lake in Scotland, inhabited by trolls. Again, my skills have improved since making this.
I have used this tool in my books "Rational Magic" (for D&D5 and Lore System) and "The Camlann Chronicles" (for D&D5 and Lore 100 System). Attached is an example. Note that my skills are still amateur level but I'm getting better.
So first of all, thank you to watabou.
To make a map like this, download a png from MFCG. Turn off hatching, set lines to thick. Use complex shapes but remove triangles. Then in Affinity Photo or photoshop, select the black lines, widen the selection then delete. This increases space between buildings (which, BTW, I think would be good for the city viewer as a default) so that allyways are created. Then set a layer filter for bevel, at a highest altitude. In Affinity Photo you may need to give it a "profile" of a straight edit diagonal but straight from top left to bottom right line (don't really understand what that does). And maybe texture the shading. That's it. Everything else is coloring (with color fill filters / styles).
Now I see there is a new village creator, a mansion generator, and a city viewer. First of all, I think these tools have many uses and are awesome. Waiting for a Dark Souls like game with these. Second, it would great to incorporate the mansion editor into the city editor. Or, build the city buildings from above, with windows and chineys, like in the mansion editor. On a lower end of detail would be really cool to use the thatch-stroke roofing from the village editor in the city editor too. But another option to build in could be to just apply a bevel roof feature, which is what I do after downloading from MFCG, as described above.
I'm going to experiment with creating a lot of miniature mansion-from-above images to paste into the city map. More time consuming than other things I've done, but I'm interested in seeing what it could look like.
Thank you for providing such wonderful tools!
