A couple years ago, I put together a map using Sketchup, a three-d sketching program which architects and other designers use to lay out inside and outside scapes. At the time, I was convinced it was a great two-dimensional map-making program, until I accidentally discovered that my two-dimensional map with borrowed buildings from the Sketchup Warehouse had become a three-dimensional map. And my expectations went up, and once I had a computer upgrade, I made sure all the buildings and plants were above ground and properly organized, and it was a pretty nice map.
My current mapping experience (for Hearts are Mountains) makes me think I've bitten off more than I can chew. (International readers, do you have that idiom?) First of all, I have to create the basement dwellings from a tracing of a picture, and then make them three-dimensional (which I am nowhere near ready for, having barely created in two dimensions. I tried to trace the picture once, and the geodesic dome "roof" (aboveground part) looked like a spider on LSD traced it. Nobody in the 3-D warehouse crew has made a rendering of this underground building, so I'm on my own.
It's not top priority -- first of all because I'm intimidated as heck by the challenge. Second of all, because I have other priorities of things I have to get done like two novels (although I'm struggling with those as well). Third -- see #2.
Face it -- I need some inspiration, because it seems to be somewhat drained from the class I'm taking. I don't have a good flow of ideas right now. I'm angling for a change in scenery today and a day devoted to creativity, a day where I can make magic.
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