Hex Mapping Symbols

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Re: Hex Mapping Symbols

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Solomoriah wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:19 am All three are acceptable to me.
Good. I've tried some more "advanced" (city, village) and the filled versions looked a lot better. I'll add these soon. In the meantime I've made cactus symbol just to have more "desert" type of symbols.
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Larger XCF available as usual for proper "tuning".
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I've finished a "starter pack" for common places. I found it much easier to get nice symbols using silhouettes so I have gone for this style. The XCF files have the bottom as a separate layer so icons with and without that can be created easily depending on what you think looks best.
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I assume the tower and fort symbols will work as keep/castle as well.

Two more icons in the next post...
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And finally village and city icons
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For those familiar with the Mystara map icons it should be clear that these are more than a little inspired by those.

If any of these doesn't work well for some reason let me know and I'll attempt to fix.
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And since I was on such a good streak, I made a few more. This batch contains castle/fortress, shrine and temple
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And finally a few more terrain symbols since these where not in the original symbol batch. Just in case they would be a nice fit.

The gras/plains symbol pretty obvious (I hope). The second is an attempt for a swamp/marsh. Always found that a bit harder.
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Re: Hex Mapping Symbols

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Very nice! I'll try to get these organized and assembled into a coherent form soon.
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