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Creative Ideas Needed
« on: April 03, 2011, 03:52:39 am »

I'm making quite a gargantuan megaproject and I'm going to have some 100z walls. I don't want them to be just bare walls, so I figured I might try to do some murals on them so when viewed with Stonesense it looks cool. I'm not very creative though so if anyone has cool ideas of stuff I could put up, post them please.
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2011, 04:03:10 am »

Giant ale mug. Bonus points if it's constructed of glass and holds magma.
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2011, 04:07:24 am »

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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2011, 04:10:08 am »

I think I might try both of those, even though they won't be in 3d I think I can still get them to look pretty awesome.
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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2011, 11:10:55 am »

Epic stuff you got there. Just a question though , how do you plan out your 3d murals anyway?
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2011, 11:26:51 am »

Try looking at the tileset for inspiration. How about the dwarven smiley-face? Or an
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2011, 11:30:40 am »

I make the dodge/spike field to the entrance of my fort shaped like a "@", which is the icon used for NPC (like caravan) dwarves.
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2011, 11:43:22 am »

have platforms projecting out of the wall holding catapults and have the internal of the wall be a pressurised water filled deathtrap -ie breach it and get blown back by rageing water-, so with some skill you can build seal offable seige platforms. the aim of it all?
well when multi z level seige weapons are implamented, then your dorfs will rain rocky death upon foes outside your gates.
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2011, 12:51:46 pm »

Try looking at the tileset for inspiration. How about the dwarven smiley-face? Or an
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to truly inspire terror.
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2011, 12:56:27 pm »

How did you manage to piss? There shouldn't be any spare liquid, all the booze goes to support the beard.
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2011, 01:02:59 pm »

How did you manage to piss? There shouldn't be any spare liquid, all the booze goes to support the beard.

The poor sod probably had to drink water due to a careless overseer (or a lazy brewer).
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2011, 01:05:14 pm »

The bastards! Kill the one at fault and brew his blood! The poor sod shall quaff pure justice!
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2011, 01:53:48 pm »

Make portraits of the gate itself on the gate, and on those portraits have more portraits of the gate, add infinitum.

edit: double rainbow works too.
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« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2011, 10:02:30 am »

Wow, I forgot to check my post and it gets all these replies, nice. I had actually been looking at the Gate as the one I was going to do, but it would literally have taken all available space to make the way I thought would look best. I'm thinking I might do murals of some of the history of my world, namely of events that involve artifacts my dwarfs have built. Anyway, nothing is set in stone yet since I have still have to dig the pit. Awesome ideas so far though, but consider this to be more of a work of art, invasions are off :P
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« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2011, 10:19:42 am »

How did you manage to piss? There shouldn't be any spare liquid, all the booze goes to support the beard.

The poor sod probably had to drink water due to a careless overseer (or a lazy brewer).
Bastard didn't even build a well  :'(
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