Mapping out The City.

Mugla on 8/7/2005 at 08:09

Lurkers! :o An answer in 20 minutes!
I didn't know so many actually followed these conversations. Wonder how many more are there.

z-vap: Hey, thanks for the help, we could use it. If you get problems, just PM me; the whole thing might get skethcy, so no question is small enough.

z-vap on 8/7/2005 at 21:48

btw, where'd str8g8 go?

str8g8 on 8/7/2005 at 22:35

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/str8g8/city_map_complete_new03.png) little update

incorporated Mugla's last changes
added possible sites for gates in the outer wall
added possible site for Baron's estate: it seems likely that this would be a fortified castle of some kind, the present location would be on clifftops seperating DP from EP

sorry for the gap in posts, been busy with the editor:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/str8g8/ShalebridgeRoad.png) Shalebridge Road
(look closely at the street sign) :D

cheers
str8g8

Hecatæus on 9/7/2005 at 00:51

str8g8,
those cables need laundry hanging from them. otherwise, beautiful.

T-Smith on 9/7/2005 at 01:26

Very, very nice editor work str8g8. Looks very dark and twisted. Not the kind of road anybody would want to go down in the dead of night, except maybe a thief looking for a little loot :p

Anyways, the map seems to be coming along great. Just a question though - what's that grey island-type shape in the sea at the bottom? Is it supposed to be the Overlook Mansion?

Mugla on 9/7/2005 at 07:52

Yay for str8g8! :D

Map: Wow, didn't know you were considering a few of those changes. Still, I must ask, why didn't you enlargen Dayport and move Eastport a bit separate? They seem a bit tight and small now.
Anyway, my time will be tighter as of tomorrow, not knowing at all how much spare time I will have. Still, I'll try to atleast pop in for an opinion every now and then.

Street: That colorization is spot on! And the buildings seem from real-life, save the last details like those hanging clothes or a few cracks and filthy water/trash. I wish I could had had time for this. :(

bobarctor on 9/7/2005 at 09:33

That Shalebridge road is closer a Thief city than any of TDS. BRICK! OH BRICK WALLS HOW I HAVE MISSED THEE!
I love the pseudo-victorian slum look of it. Seems like a sequel to TII's art.

str8g8 on 9/7/2005 at 12:32

Glad you liked the screenshot ... though it is just work in progress and needs more details, ... hmmm washing - that's a great idea! And yes, I missed a bit of good old brick, didn't realise until I made the texture and started using it everywhere. Thanks for the encouragement! I might even have the courage to post a screen in the editing forum soon :D

T-smith: that's overlook mansion, yes, there was a great deal of discussion about it a few pages back.

Mugla, you're right about DP and EP, they do look a bit squashed right now, I realy liked your rearrangement, but Grund's point earlier on in the thread (much earlier on) about it being unnatural for a river to open out into a promontary of land, in real life at least, it tends to form a bay around itself, and so I have tried to at least keep the coastline as flat as possible. But I will probably play around with it a little more and get the right balance.

Sorry to hear you won't be able to post as much, this project needs your astute observations, and willingness to 'get stuck in' with the map. Thanks for all your hard work up to now! I don't think we'd have got this far without you. :D

cheers
str8g8

Mugla on 11/7/2005 at 09:26

Well there are actually such rivers that carry sludge and sand and form a outlet at their end, but these are usually such delta-rivers as Missisippi or Amazon. Anyway, I thought we were making this thing into a hill-side, so the River exits where it is able to. You still can continue the coastline a bit and enlarge Dayport though.

As on my time, I'll see better today what happens. But there won't be graphics anymore, that's nigh certain. :D

Snakeskin on 12/7/2005 at 17:45

Wow.. i mean wow!
When finding these forums i couldnt imagine this kind of activity!
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Sam from Sweden. I am a long time fan of the Thief series, and a roleplayer as well. I got this idea of trying to patch up the thief world and fill out some gaps, as well as making a set of rules to roleplay in the thief world. I am currently playing through all the games again taking notes and pictures.
You guys have just made the largest part of the work for me, i am extremely grateful! A map of the city.. and from what i have seen in this thread there are other sites that have the world summarized (keeper library, was the one i found).

I will start writing seriously as soon as i have played through T3 again (in the middle of T2 currently), and when done i will post everything here for sure.

If anyone have anything else like pictures/drawings, information, locations, music (?) and such, everything from the world actually i will gladly accept it! I will stick around here to see what i can dig up.

EDIT: Im sorry i will make this a new topic..