FR cities Options

[Valiant]

Folks, I would like to ask if some of you have some pictures of Forgotten Realms cities. Because I would like to make a brand new city for BG2, but I need the first input - some pictures of cities, docks, council city parts... It should be smaller than Athkatla, but it should have docks, then a normal area with houses and inns, and then a city gate part. 3 or 4 areas approximately. Of course it will take time, but it´s doable.

It can be also some sketches, no need for colored pictures.

Thanks.

[Galactygon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_architecture is a good place to read about how architecture

Images of cities that would be appropriate for pre-rennaisance cities:

Germany
• Nuremberg (strongly recommended)
• Rothenburg ob der Tauber (strongly recommended)
• Dinkelsbühl (strongly recommended)
• Ulm
  France
• Strasbourg (strongly recommended)
• Rouen
  Belgium
• Bruges
  U.K.
• Canterbury
• York

I am not very familiar with the U.K. cities. But there are more than enough U.K. forumers here who could give more help.

Many of those links include very nice and detailed drawings of individual buildings. Even in BG1, Bioware used a non-authentic mix of neo-classicist and eclectic buildings when designing the cities. They did not implement any narrow and chaotic streets characteruzed by existing medieval cities, since the characters would be covered by buildings more than 90% of the time!

-Galactygon

This post has been edited by Galactygon: Dec 12 2007, 12:42 AM