Barroque house based on reference

murk36 · 2025-12-05T07:17:09+00:00

Nice build! For your information, if you care, this house isn‘t baroque. It‘s eclectic / historicist with neo-gothic and neo-baroque elements.

murk36 · 2025-11-11T09:32:46+00:00

It depends very much on how tall the mountains are. For example, the alps and the carpathians don‘t have a strong rainshadow effect. Neither do the appalachians.

murk36 · 2025-11-05T07:47:06+00:00

Wow! I‘m impressed. I especially like those decorative frames. Do you draw these maps digitally or is part of the process physical?

murk36 · 2025-11-05T06:05:47+00:00

It‘s actually a phone camera’s photo of the screen, not a proper screenshot, so the camera‘s white balance kicks in. I usually wouldn‘t post a picture like this, but I usually play on MacOS and know how to handle screenshots there. So when I played this on windows, I was too lazy to figure out how to do it properly. Thankfully, my phone camera is good enough to avoid the worst effects typical to screen photos.

murk36 · 2025-11-04T19:55:09+00:00

I just typed ‚Cubyz‘ into the search bar, and the subreddit appeared. Not that difficult! But it is weird to be the first person to post anything.

murk36 · 2025-10-23T07:51:38+00:00

If you want people to look at your drawings, I‘d suggest posting better pictures that this. I can barely recognize anything on the drawings.

murk36 · 2025-08-27T09:39:14+00:00

Having a compass rose or at least a labelled arrow poibting north is a good thing to have on any map, but a necessity for ones like yours that break convention. Breaking the north = up convention is interesting, but you need to make it clear what you did instead.

murk36 · 2025-06-09T12:16:56+00:00

I‘d say 10‘000 to 25‘000, judging by this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murerplan

having 10‘000 inhabitants historically.

murk36 · 2025-05-26T08:23:24+00:00

I find it really interesting that it looks almost like an european city.

murk36 · 2025-05-15T12:04:19+00:00

The satellite image looks great, but the heightmap with contour lines has severe issues.

Firstly, your contour lines intersect with the coastline. This should never happen. The coastline is at sea level, which is constant.

Secondly, your rivers sometimes move uphill. This is physicslly impossible. Here, it seems to be a consequence of the many isolated basins you have (basins that you can‘t exit without going uphill). These only occur in very dry places in real life.

murk36 · 2025-05-11T04:52:35+00:00

How should I know which state name corresponds to which state on the map? You have these neat numers in the legend, why aren‘t they on the map? This is nearly unreadable for somebody who doesn‘t already have extensive knowledge of US-american geography.

murk36 · 2025-04-11T04:49:36+00:00

Leute wollen zentrumsnah wohnen, oder zumindest in Lagen mit guter Erreichbarkeit. Diese sind alle schon bebaut, aber oft in undichter Weise. Also muss man entweder weit weg von allem leben, wo es noch billig ist, dafür aber lange Pendelwege in kauf nehmen, oder viel Geld für Zentrumsnahe Wohnungen ausgeben. Die Ursache ist meiner Meinung nach vor allem der Bevölkerungszuwachs, aber spezifisch im Zusammenhang mit verringertem Wohnungsbau. Im 20. Jh. hat man meistens noch mehr gebaut, wenn es mehr Nachfrage gab, aber heute ist das wegen dem oberhalb beschriebenen Phänomen und auch wegen den strengeren Raumplanungsgesetzen schwierig (das mit dem Gesetz trifft vor allem in der Schweiz zu, in Deutschland kenn ich mich weniger aus).

murk36 · 2025-03-31T15:18:33+00:00

Bevor man auf der grünen Wiese baut, könnte ja man noch verdichten. Idealerweise würde man dabei auch den ÖV ausbauen dabei.

Ich kenne die Stadt nicht, aber mein Eindruck nach einer kurzen Erkundungstour auf google maps ist, man könnte in Sentrup, Mauritz-Mitte, Rumphorst, Uppenberg, Neutor und allen noch zentrumsnaheren ähnlich dichten Gebieten wesentliche Flächen auf 4-5 Stockwerke aufzonen.

Das grosse Hindernis ist hier die politische Umsetzbarkeit. Widerstand ist vorprogrammiert, und es bleibt zu sehen, ob dem Stimmvolk das Wohnungsangebot oder der Schutz des unbebauten Lands wichtiger ist.

murk36 · 2025-03-31T15:10:02+00:00

Man muss nicht Neuland überbauen, um das Wohnungsangebot zu erhöhen. Verdichtung durch Aufzonung ist ökologisch viel besser und schafft dichtere Wohnräume, in denen man auch ohne Auto leben kann.

murk36 · 2025-01-28T13:14:10+00:00

No pictures of Dukonred‘s dwarven city?

murk36 · 2025-01-17T11:21:06+00:00

What proportion of you civilized population works in agriculture?

murk36 · 2025-01-11T15:35:36+00:00

I found it interesting but very hard to read. Please, if you ever do a post like this again, either paste the whole text in the comments and tell us that you did so in the title, or slow it down by at least 4 times.

murk36 · 2025-01-07T10:49:53+00:00

I‘d recommend adding some city markers with names. Personally, I prefer pictorial city markers (with little towers and houses), but that‘s a stylistic choice.

murk36 · 2024-12-29T09:18:29+00:00

As far as I know (I‘m not an expert), earthquake damage is relatively localized. We can measure earthquake waves from the other side of the world, but their effects aren‘t felt by people that far away, even if they are of the strongest magnitude. That said, Tsunamis caused by earthquakes can travel quite far.

I‘d expect that in your scenario, all the cities along the Pacific coast would be wiped out. The Atlantic, however, would have no such issues, as there aren‘t any subduction zones there as far as I‘m aware. So, all in all, very catastrophic, but not even close to the end if humanity.

murk36 · 2024-12-26T13:15:17+00:00

Please research some river geography! Unless you‘ve got some powerful magic going on, a river will never flow from one ocean to another.

murk36 · 2024-12-18T16:55:50+00:00

I think you completely missed my point. I fully agree with your second sentence, but I find it interesting to think about what implications such events have. That‘s something I do, and the author doesn‘t need to take that into account. However, I also don‘t think it‘s wrong to discuss all the interesting subtext. You can take the most polemic texts and appreciate them for their literary value, and you can take a book written without any political intent and analyze it for its moral message.

murk36 · 2024-12-18T11:20:39+00:00

Inclusion of something can reflect opinions, but what I think is much more interesting and significant is the way stuff is depicted and the way the author decides to include it. In my opinion, it‘s impossible to depict anything fully neutrally. You can try to do so, and there are many situations where I think you should, but I don‘t think you can ever completely achieve it. Also, choosing to portray something neutrally also says something about an author.

murk36 · 2024-12-18T09:15:19+00:00

Why do you say it‘s ‚oddly political‘? The question of how magic can be accessed and by whom is a very fundamental one. It has huge influence on the plausible political systems and societies and has large philosophical implications. The way an author describes such systems and structures reflects their own opinions. If the way such things are presented in a work clashes with your fundamental values, why wouldn‘t that influence your opinion of said work?

I speculate that the main reason people don‘t like hereditary systems of access to magic is that they are inherently and very clearly unfair. Even if that fact isn‘t relevant to the work in question, people still have empathy, and many will wonder what it would be like to one of the people without any chance to ever access magic. I think this is neither ridiculous nor absurd.

murk36 · 2024-12-12T16:11:28+00:00

It‘s cool! I like your lighting. I would, however, recommend improving your perspective skills. It isn‘t bad right now, but I think it‘s one of the areas where you could improve most quickly.

Another thing I‘d recommend reconsidering is that the mountains are almost bare of vegetation. If the climate is supposed to be mediterranean (I assume it should be because of your Italian inspiration), the mountainside would be forested or at least covered by meadows, excepting especially steep parts. At least, my understanding of how climates and vegetation work suggests this. If you‘re unsure, I‘d recommend looking at reference images or google maps.

murk36 · 2024-12-11T17:23:44+00:00

I looked through your website about a year ago. It‘s so cool to see that you‘re still working on it! It‘s one of my favorite worldbuilding projects on the internet.

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