I have reskinned the main faces of the map with my own hand-drawn textures. I think they're starting to create a unique cartoony atmosphere and final video could turn out really well. I have continued to use a scanned page of parchment as a background to each texture, so that the whole thing will feel like its on an antique page.
I have also been tidying up the terrain and figuring out ways to fill the landscape. I looked into how people had made trees for Sketchup and worked out how to apply a 2D image to a component which will snap to the camera and follow it; giving a simple illusion of 3D. I hand drew a cartoon oak tree as a start and managed to apply it as a png so that the white space around it would be see-through. I then went mad a planted a small forest, which through the magic abilities of Sketchup didn't affect the file size at all! I think the sunny glow of the fog is also helping to break up the hills and dissolves the map into the background well.
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