Hints on Ship Floorplan Drawing?
- Thread starter DangerousThing
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DangerousThing
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Scarecrow,
Do you ever plan to even think about having your plans published?
If you're not using a vector format, you need to have the final version at 1,200 dpi. Which means your working version should be at least 2,400 dpi, preferably 4,800 dpi. Then you can use Photoshop or whatever drawing app you use to shrink the image down to 300 dpi for printing at home or whatever the publisher wants for printing professionally.
I've seen a lot of very crappy *printed* documents that looked absolutely wonderful on my computer. I've even written/drawn some of them.
DangerousThing
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What programs do people use for drawing deck plans?
Does anybody use Campaign Cartographer to do this?
Does anybody use Campaign Cartographer to do this?
Scarecrow
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Not my plans, no but all the illustrations I've ever had published were 300dpi and they looked fine.
I've not made any plans for a long time but the last ones I did used a combination of Studio MAX or Maya and Photoshop.
Crow
Andrew Boulton
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I doubt many people would often need pics at more than 300dpi. Editing a full page @4800dpi would give most computers a heart attack!
DangerousThing
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I will agree that *most* people don't need this. However, my suggestion is that if you ever want to have the deck plans published, you need to do this in a larger format. Or do this in a vector format.
Nightwind1
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Scarecrow,
Do you ever plan to even think about having your plans published?
If you're not using a vector format, you need to have the final version at 1,200 dpi. Which means your working version should be at least 2,400 dpi, preferably 4,800 dpi. Then you can use Photoshop or whatever drawing app you use to shrink the image down to 300 dpi for printing at home or whatever the publisher wants for printing professionally.
I've seen a lot of very crappy *printed* documents that looked absolutely wonderful on my computer. I've even written/drawn some of them.
I used to be a Graphic Designer/Typographer for a couple of print shops, and 300dpi was what we used for 98% of what we output and printed. I can't think of hardly anything that "requires" as high as 1200dpi.
Some of mine in the gallery were done with CC2
The rest are done in Sketchup as 3D files, then printed to PNG, then tweaked in GIFconverter.
Icosahedron
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MS Paint.
Not necessarily saying I'd recommend it, but it's what I've used for most of the plans I've made, and it does have an elegant simplicity and a very shallow learning curve. Once upon a time it was all I had, and it's been a long time since I've found time to draw...
The very same company (ProFantasy) also produces the science-fiction-specialised Cosmographer.
DangerousThing
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Which is pretty much just a set of sybols and templates for drawing deck plans and star maps. They do include Taveller stuff also which is a big plus, but I don't know how to use it yet. Help would be appreciated.
Which requires CC2 or CC3 (depending upon which edition of Cosmo).
DT: PM me to arrange a skype or G+ conference time, and I can walk you through the process.
