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alcibiades
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Undefeatable Hero
of Gold Dragons
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posted October 02, 2015 01:45 PM |
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Sleeping_Sun said:
@alci
It is cluttered for a number of reasons. Firstly, the number of buildings in H7 is greater than in the previous games. And that is a notion that I had to follow.
Yes, I agree with you in that you have to follow the number of buildings provided by UbiSoft, but there are some things that can be done about it. One of the problems with the H7 Town screens is that they don't properly group buildings. Thus, you have a marketplace which is one entity, then you have a resource silo that is another entity, and you have perhaps an artifact merchant that is a third entity, etc. In Academy townscreen, this is very evident in that every single building has its own small floating island, which means everything becomes teeny-tiny in order to make room for it. Bizarrely, in Haven and Stronghold townscreens, they fall in the opposite ditch: Buidings are spread out uniformly over the entire picture, making it impossible to see where one stops and the next starts.
I think one can circumvent this problem at least to some extent by making groups of buildings, and then dividing the townscreen into clear sections for each group. Groupings can be done something like:
1) Defensive buildings: Wall, Fort, Castle, Moat, etc.
2) Civil buildings: Village Hall, Town Hall, City Hall, Capitol +/- special buildings (Treassury, etc.)
3) Hero buildings: Tavern, Blacksmith, Thieves Guild +/- special buildings (Stables, Embassy, etc.)
4) Economic buildings: Marketplace, Resource Silo, Artifact Merchant +/- special buildings (Alchemist Lab, etc.)
5) Magic buildings: Mage Guild 1-4 +/- special buildings (Library, Enscriber, Vortex of Mana, Choral of Believers, etc.)
6)-12) Dwellings: Level 1-7 +/- booster buildings - booster building always extends on the dwelling, not a separate building
13) Town Portal
14) Grail
By grouping buildings and by dividing the town screen into sections (foreground, middle, background - each with a number of slots next to each other) it should be possible to make it more structured yet still holding the same number of buildings. As a sidenote, the same would go for the town build window.
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted October 02, 2015 09:15 PM |
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I agree with what you said.
I also edited OP with some gifs and pictures...
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 02, 2015 09:22 PM |
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Omg this is so much better than the last version I saw  Amazing work mate!
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted October 02, 2015 09:25 PM |
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Thank you for your patience and the constant feedback. 
Edit: Updated OP with more content.
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted October 14, 2015 02:11 PM |
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The screen is looking cool.
Do you mind sharing a PSD with townscreen?
I plan to convert it to VCMI townscreen.
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted October 14, 2015 06:16 PM |
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Sorry, but what is PSD?
When the townscreen is a bit improved, I'll publish all the relevant data (the images themselves) here. That way you'll be able to use them as you wish.
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LizardWarrior
Honorable
Legendary Hero
the reckoning is at hand
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posted October 14, 2015 06:18 PM |
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PSD= photoshop document
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted October 15, 2015 09:29 AM |
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Sleeping_Sun said:
Sorry, but what is PSD?
When the townscreen is a bit improved, I'll publish all the relevant data (the images themselves) here. That way you'll be able to use them as you wish.
Cool, that's for answer.
Will patiently wait for it.
Can you also share then first townscreen version (with dark buildings and Spider Moon blessed by Erwan)?
For collection purposes it will be great.
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted October 15, 2015 12:04 PM |
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@LW
Thanks for the answer. Could you tell me for what is PSD used? Sorry for the stupid question. I guess that it has to do something with the images, but I'm not sure what exactly. 
@Macron1
As far as the dark buildings are concerned and the spider-like grail structure/shadow:
1) I have these dark buildings as layers of my xcf file, since I work with GIMP and not Photoshop. These layers are big as the image itself 2500x1500, but they also do not have any gif images.
At the moment, I was doing only brighter version, whose layers have been narrowed down to the appropriate scale of the individual image in question (in any way it's less than 2500x1500). In addition, only these images have gif animation, as seen in the first post of this thread. But, when I finish, you can always burn the middleshadows of the images for 25 points in order to get them dark again. I'm not sure if I'll have time to do this. Hopefully, I will.
2) The elements of Spider grail TS are lost due to some problems in the past. However, I have preserved the spider picture, although it is unfinished and not transparent. You can download it now, remove the white background, make the skelly-spider dark, and set its opacity/transparency to somewhere around 20-30. And that's all there is to it.
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted October 29, 2015 07:50 PM |
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Any updates?
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted October 29, 2015 09:33 PM |
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Here's the download link. There's a Read me file. Please read it. And by the way, the name of the .rar file is Big Layer Files instead of Necro TS, sorry, I'm in a mess these days... 
I would like to ask anyone who downloads these files to implement them into H7 game and send a screenshot of an in-game Necropolis townscreen to me (post it here, send me a HC message, or you can email me). Thanks in advance!
I didn't have enough time to improve much TS, but as soon as I find time I'll try to improve the colour scheme and maybe some other things... Though when is that going to happen I'm not sure...
@Macron1
You'll most likely have to change some buildings (Fortification, Archer towers and Moat) in order to make them more H3-friendly, i.e. Moat is built along with the Citadel, which is not the case in H7... Just to notify you...
EDIT: updated OP with the download link.
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"The age can be wicked to those who walk alone. When I look into the Mirror, I see myself as I might become..." -Freya
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ThatRedSarah
Famous Hero
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 30, 2015 10:05 AM |
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I like how the marketplace owner is just standing behind the counter ready to sell his products and serve customers  He looks pretty angry thou... maybe the business isnt doing too well. I guess there is no escaping the current economy... not even in death 
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Sleeping_Sun
Promising
Famous Hero
Townscreen Architect
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posted October 30, 2015 10:29 AM |
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@ThatRedSarah
He is angry because he is selling Dragonblood steel (or whatever the name is in H7) while the customers want standard H1-H5 resources (crystals, gems, etc.). 
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"The age can be wicked to those who walk alone. When I look into the Mirror, I see myself as I might become..." -Freya
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Draeganfire
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 11, 2017 09:44 PM |
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I just came across this thread. I noticed it hasn't been posted on in quite some time, and I am working on a new town idea for HOMM3 VCMI project called Death Valley. I am only in the very beginning stages, but am interested in many of the buildings on this thread. Is this an ongoing project?
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted January 12, 2017 02:47 PM |
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Edited by Galaad at 14:56, 12 Jan 2017.
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IIRC SS "only" did the creative part and gives the data in OP but it has yet to be implemented and converted to mod.
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