City Assets Pack (Patreon)

Hello all!

I can't guarantee every public asset pack is going to have this quick of a turnaround moving forward, but I was surprised and inspired enough from the last poll for asset theme that I wanted to jump on this one right away.

May I present.. the City Assets Pack! For several reasons this pack is pretty different from the previous public asset packs I've made. For starters, all of the assets in this pack are (obviously) at a city scale, not battle map. Doesn't mean you might not be able to find some creative overlap between the two, but by and large the drawback here is that these have far less 'compatibility with previously released packs. Secondly, there is a LOT OF STUFF in this pack. In addition to creating lots of city walls and other assets for this, I skimmed through a few of my own city maps to give you: 

- 200+ "Building Clusters"

- 125 "Buildings of Interest"

- 400+ "Normal Buildings" 

- Compasses, scales, and Miscellaneous Buildings

- 119 Trees

- 2 Small bodies of water

- 6 parapets, 30 complete walls, and nearly 300 individual wall parts

Altogether making this by far the largest pack I've ever put together. With that, rather than try and make 5 different color variations of each asset and variations of each of those with preset shadows (knocking the total asset count from the already huge number of ~1300 assets to a staggering 13,000 assets), I've instead made some instructional videos!

In three brief videos (16 mins total) I'll show you how to adjust the colors of the buildings to exactly what you would want, how to create varying kinds of drop shadows for your assets, and how to use the Dirt Road Brush I included to create roads that will fit to your city perfectly! All with little prior Photoshop experience required and taught in such a way that it will make it easy for you to reenact the same methods yourself (please don't make fun of my humble youtube page).

Lastly, I know this pack has some deficits and compromises had to be made. While the additional Photoshop instruction is nice, that does become a bit of a roadblock to those of you who aren't necessarily keen to use such a program or use something else to assemble your maps. Additionally, I know for this to be more robust we'll need more building variations, more geographical landmarks, and much more. While I already have plans marinating for a Part Two, I would sincerely love any and all feedback/suggestions/critique you can offer here. 

And as always, those of you now feeling inspired should please consider adding your new city maps to the Community Library for others to use too. 

Enjoy! This pack will remain patron-only until a month from now when it will become available to the public. Thank you for helping to support that!