Argynvostholt
Added 2021-05-06 12:29:18 +0000 UTCOh, Argynvostholt... until you came along, I had no idea what I was doing where levels and layers were concerned. You forced me to learn (well, sort of - my technique is still pretty questionable), but I do hate you for it. There are a lot of overlapping layers here, and it took me a while to figure out the best way to do things in order to get the effect I wanted. It probably didn't help that I had taken a break from making maps for like two months before I came back to start this one, so I was rusty to begin with.
From the beginning of the project, I was using the environmental lighting to make the maps darker and alter their color, but this came with the significant problem that I could not blend multiple layers while exporting the maps without losing that lighting effect - I didn't realise the limitations of this method until Argynvostholt. So, while I probably should have made each floor on its own separate level (which would have then allowed me to blur the lower levels slightly) and then edited the lighting and colors with Photoshop, I just decided to clone the previous levels and build over it every time. It certainly works, but it could be better - I may revise the method going forward.
