Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> Slowly making progress on Gancaloon. Embedding older or wip scenes like
> The Jackal area. Also I have decided on a geographical location.
>
> In the master scene, here, I have added SunPos.inc which enables me now
> to give realistic Sun heights according to date of the year and hour of
> the day. This image shows the town in April at GMT 16:20 hours. I have
> not yet decided if I shall correct for time zones. I probably will in
> order to use local time.
>
> Thomas


Thomas,

I love the landscape and your integration of your structures into the model.
I've worked with POV for almost 15 years and still struggle with landscapes.  Do
you have a posting of the technique you used to lay out the roads and place the
town buildings?

I have three military concerns...

The first is the amount of land area enclosed by the city wall and the small bit
that is occupied by the town.  Is it your intent to fill in this with more
structures?  The entire town population would be needed to man just the towers
on this wall.

Second, the port seems to be small and well defended for such a small area.
Profits from the docking fees must be extremely high.

Third, it appears your town is inside a bay area with a fortification on the
town side, how come you don't have a similar fortification on the opposite
shore.  Defending the bay would open up the entire space and give more room for
the ships to enter, dock, trade and improve the economic position of your town.

Also, based on the city sky-line, your town is occupied by a bunch of heathens
with no places of worship or praise.  Perhaps the fortifications are their
masters???

Robert.

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