CCIP-subsim -> RE: Chechnya map (WIP) (12/12/2018 7:34:28 AM)
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Today's progress: got my least favourite part of the map so far done! Least favourite because it's in that bend of the river and doesn't quite work out in a neat grid (as it ought to be in real life) - so, after bouncing between good looks and accuracy, I ended up settling on neither and focused on roughly how well it would play. [image]https://i.imgur.com/5XLYRav.jpg[/image] High-rise buildings along Lenin Prospekt, the city's main thoroughfare, dominate the lines of sight here, while off to the sides are some of the older low-rise areas. [image]https://i.imgur.com/ao3Q7O3.jpg[/image] Off in the lower right corner, Minutka Square - one of Grozny's great battlegrounds - is beginning to take shape. With its underground passages and towering apartment blocks, and a key bottleneck for movement, it was heavily fought over and practically flattened during the wars. For comparison, here's a satellite shot of the same area in 2002 (after the war, with much of the city still destroyed): [image]https://i.imgur.com/a6Tv8O6.jpg[/image] With placing things diagonnaly taking up a lot more space, there was no way I could preserve the grid alignment, so I chose to "save" the main lines of movement through the district instead. [image]https://i.imgur.com/pZ0Yg7I.jpg[/image] Overall state of the map as of now.
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