Banister Fletcher series

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by pyratejohn

Very nice! So nice, in fact, that I'm inspired. So I've just asked my wife to purchase a copy of CC3 for my birthday.

Is fun. I recommend getting DD3 as well, but you can do a lot with the base program, particularly if you take the time to figure out how to build your own symbol catalogs and use your own textures (I haven't, mind you, but I hear it's really cool).

Originally Posted by pyratejohn

Ok, I'm a cartographer in real life, so I'm curious about the process you are using. Do you scan the base map first, and then bring that up as a layer in CC3 then trace it?

That one. I'm a bit casual about scaling, but it seems to work.

Originally Posted by pyratejohn

Again, good work!

Grazie.

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Palazzo Municipio, Genoa (p. 690)

This Renaissance building owes its shape in part to the fact that it's built on a slope. The front section is separated by a few steps from the central court (the area surrounded by the rectangle of pillars is open to the sky), at the back of which is a grand set of staircases leading up to the second floor, which has a similar floorplan without the steps leading from the vestibule to the court. There's also a sheltered collonade on either side of the front and ornamental gardens outside.

Technique-wise, I've started playing with paths. Notably, the pillars around the court and the external collonades were drawn with the one-click (well, approximately one) symbols-along-path rather than being placed individually, which means that they're lined up properly. Since most of the architecture I'm dealing with involves veritable forests of pillars, this is a big thing. It mostly works, but left a few inexplicable gaps along the way. For example, the pillar at the bottom right was filled in by hand, but the rest in that collonade were drawn automatically. And I'm getting sloppy on my lines. Bad map person!