Scenario Design
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Cazuul demostrates how a little more effort and loving touch can add interesting and aesthetic quality to the map terrain. He used a combination of tiles on the same hex to create special effects as shown in these pics. They were originally created for the Wizard's Throne, but the techniques have been updated here to show how they appear in Shadow Magic.

The snapshots are all taken out of the map, "Rain Over Halflingen" (an unreleased scenario). Hopefully, the pictures will speak for themselves as to how the landscapes were done and will inspire other mapmakers to add more "love" into their creations.

The Misty Forest combines the two tiles, Heavy storms and tree tiles. As for the other pics - they are are 'combined' tiles (two or three different graphics on the same hex), which all took quite a while since it required clicking a few times to get the right tree, flower, etc. to sit in the right way together on the hex.

Misty Forest

(Heavy storm tile was used to create the misty effects.)

Town of Halflingen*

(Strong current tile was used to create that aura around the water nodes.)

Utopia*

(A beautiful flower hill with a Life node, made using light colored trees, sacred woods, thin pine trees, flowers, dark and tall grass, and a few crop field and mist tiles.)

Dark-Wood Camp

Volcano

(The Use of underground tile set objects causes distortion effects that can be used to your advantage. On the left bottom corner is a pillar from the underground tile set. Fire tile and torch tiles have a orange red glow effect.)