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Update: I Fell into a Rabbit Hole Tonight
🕑 Added 2019-06-20 04:49:54 +0000 UTCFirst
It looks like most of you came from Reddit, and I'd like to thank you all very much for your ongoing support. I'm attaching some early drafts of what I made with MakeHuman tonight, fun stuff. You all are awesome and thank you, thank you, thank you, for supporting me.
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My sales have been really great. Thank you all so much. If you'd like to help, especially if you don't have $ but would like to support my work, what I can use help with is spreading the word! Tell your friends, family, gaming group, pastor, boss, employees and everyone else! Social media is a chore, ya'll. And the more people that help me promote the more time I have to do what you are all here for: MAKING AWESOME MAPS!
The Rabbit Hole
So, I've been trying to figure out how to up my game for my next outdoors set. Wild Adventures Volume 1: Basic Ships is about 70% complete I'd guess. I need to finish out a better anchor, some grappling hooks, netting, make a crow's nest, and then start wrangling all of the files together but all of the real work is already complete.
I have Wild Interiors Volume 2: Build Your Own Interiors, and Wild Dungeons Volume 1: Abandoned and Burning Buildings already both 100% prepped and ready to go. I'll be releasing my next set in 11-12 days. I'm not sure which set it'll be. If you all have any preferences, please let me know in the comments!
Those of you who are patrons with higher subscriptions have more weight to your comments of course. My next set I want to work on is tentatively Wonderful Wilds Volume 2: Swamps and Cemeteries. I'd like to capitalize off of a certain 5th ed module that's been released but also I think my party will be going somewhere in the campaign in about a month where I can really use those sets, so it seems like a smart plan to combine.
While doing that I reached a wall where I realized... I have no idea how to make dead bodies. And I need them, quite a bit really. I really should have added some to the burned and abandoned set, I still might. Thanks to Meditating Munky (https://www.patreon.com/Meditating_Munky ) I discovered MakeHuman, but then I started doing research into Blender and ways to make my own 3D textures, specifically for plants. I might spend another 8-12 hours going down this rabbit hole just to see where it takes me.
I wouldn't do this if I wasn't 90% sure it would result in a significant increase in quality to my work. If I ever think it's being a net loss I'll pull out but right now there's several things that I just can't make well with my current textures, PhotoShop brushes, and assets downloaded from Pixabay.
All of this is to say, I'm still working roughly 20-30+ hours a week on this stuff on top of my day job and I'm excited and still very motivated. I plan on taking some vacation days the first week in July to continue to try and make headway on all of this.
My Current Plans if You'd Like to Give Feedback
Here's some stuff in the pipelines mentally:
- Ships (70% complete) - difficulty high effort
- Swamps & Cemeteries (1% complete) - medium/high effort - I really want to do this one
- Forest Expansion (0%) - low/medium effort - will include rivers, streams, more advanced mountains/cliffs
- Wild Dungeons Volume X: Modular Sewers (0%) - low effort - I plan on using this in my upcoming campaign too, but I just might buy Meditating Munky's set instead if I don't get around to it by then
- Wild Dungeons Volume X: Modular Mines (15%) - low/medium effort - I sort of started on this already in the 3 Campaigns Maps post. I got some negative feedback on the houses but I love the mine interiors, I think with some work that set could be solid as hell.
- Town Streets Expansion (10%) - medium effort - will include town walls, ports, sea textures, etc
- Modular Furnished Interiors Expansion (0%) - medium/high effort - will include a library, more taverns, more shops, a blacksmith, maybe a city hall and temple, more houses, and whatever else people ask for
- Build Your Own Interiors Volume 2 (0%) - low effort assuming I do the expansion above
- Swampy Towns/Village (0%) - medium effort assuming I make the Swamps & Cemeteries set
- Tropical Forests and Volcanic Islands - medium/high effort
- Wild Adventures Volume 2: A Ship and Islands (15%) - medium effort if I have swamps done - A huge fantasy cruiser "The Behemoth" that is furnished and unfurnished plus lots of modular island maps
- Modular Towers (0%) - low to high effort depending upon more interior expansions finished
- Wild Adventures Volume X: Skyships - high effort
- Wild Adventures Volume X: Fantasy Trains - high effort
- Urban Wilds Volume X: High Magic Tower City - high effort
- Eternally Touched Misty Wilds - medium effort - undecomposed bodies, eternal mists, all that jazz
I'm pretty sure these are too many options to make a poll, we will revisit this subject. If you are still reading, holy shit you are awesome!
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