@dvlenk - i did not yet make groundplan, just made clear how to go about putting buildings in the water and on land. there must be a plan of course and we will have to simplify it, but the grid could be easily adapted. the terrain has to be a single layout of course. i will make a drawing to illustrate what i mean. there are no sloping streets to speak of in this kind of town.
-----what i don't know is: in sketchup i can make a terrain and put buildings on it later, will this work for other 3d progs too?
@ dynamo - of course you may: we did not decide on what it will be exactly - the start with an old dutch port town came up because that was what looking like what conniekat started with. she was thinking about the victorian era at that time. we can go for whatever we want.

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