Medieval Town

Artwork Works in Progress
#1

I’ve started working on this medieval village thing, and thought I could go ahead and put up a WIP thread on it (primarily so i’ll have motivation to finish it :o)
Here’s a link to a wonderful little tool which can generate city map layouts procedurally:
http://www.drachenzahn.de/city_map_generator/
The terrain texture you see in the images was generated by that program as a reference.
The first image is a simple top-down layout view, showing the positions of buildings in brown, trees in {dark}green, roads in white, and water in blue.
The second image is a golden sunset shot of some of the placeholder buildings.
This is all very early, but any ideas, suggestions, or criticism is 100% welcome :smiley:

>EDIT: added a zoned map, showing the different areas of the town. The building with a tower is a church, by the way. I don’t plan to rigidly abide by the layout generated by the program by any means, so you might as well ignore some of the round "buildings (brown circles)<

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#2

Your file is a .msi :confused: . I use linux .
But i thinking :
What is the output of this software?
Is a 3d .obj?
If you use this software for games , you need more features
else … :stuck_out_tongue:
Have a nice day!

#3

I’m using Linux too, specifically Ubuntu 8.04, it works fine for me using Wine…:yes:

Looking forward to using it for a few of my projects…

#4

That’s a cool tool thx for sharing. And good luck with your project.

#5

mythcat: the output is a simple .bmp of the map generated, useful mainly for concept generation and reference, i guess.
Thanks for the encouragement, hasmat :slight_smile:

#6

I had a few stuffs maybe could help you look at !

Maybe we could develop a phyton script that recognize this draw and convert them in to a blender file with objects. For example the Triangle means tree, rectangue with number 1 mean simple house ?! Something like that Understand ? Or if we could find some one with time, develop a map maker using de blender GE.

#7

That sound really good lokidg.

#8

that does sound like a good idea, to use python… one can actually save a non image file of their map, in .sge format, so if a python scripter could translate the information present in that file into scene objects then we may have something here :slight_smile:

#9

Even if it just used cubes and such then we could switch the cubes with ready made objects would work for me. ie. if I had a mesh named hut, the script would have an option to place the object of my choosing there instead of the cube. But I think that’s what you meant anyway.

I wish I had gotten past the first few python tutorials so I could at least make a start on something like that.

#10

or maybe the script could choose specific objects based on the size of the building square/circle…
one problem may be height. The maps have no representation of terrain or building height.
Maybe parameters like variation, minimum and maximum building height could be implemented

#11

Yeah, could be done with variation of colour in the image maybe? like a heightmap?

#12

I think better with images ! Look at !

We need made simple icons to make a easy recognition ! Like Augmented Reality !
Here the sample idea !


#13

Would it be able to have objects rotated along, say, the x or y-axis or would that be done manually?

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like have something like that for a barrel on its side? sorry for the ASCII art.

#14

these are all really good ideas, but the program i’m using doesn’t have these features (different icons for various objects), and the source code is not available (to my knowledge). I suppose a proficient programmer could create a clone program with more flexibility and easier blender integration… hmm.