Maze of the Week 75 Redux - Peter B Lewis Building (MOTW#178)

I think the first version of the maze was fine. I made it with shadows and in color which used to be the typical changes I would make on a maze to improve it. But now that I know how to texture items I thought it could use an update. Here is the original post:

Maze of the Week #75 - Peter B Lewis Building Maze

Here are the enhancements I made to improve the maze:

1. Added Texture. And a lot of it. I added new texture on the bushes, to the sidewalk, and to the stone wall on the bottom right next to the entrance windows. All to make the maze look more realistic. Using a slightly different finish, I also added stone finishing to seated area in front of the bushes.

2. Fixed 2 Mistakes. I reworked the shadow off of the bottom left bushes which had bled in to the original maze. I fixed the sky bleeding into the sidewalk on the right side. Oops.

3. Widened Pathways. I changed pathway cuts from 1.5 to 2.5, so +66% larger so the maze is easier to both see and solve.

4. Color change. I de-blued the sky a bit.

So not many changes, but enough to make a difference…maybe ?

Here is the before and after:

It actually looks very similar, but if you were to download and solve it it will be much more enjoyable.

Some data: The new file is 830MB from 130MB. Much bigger.

I will be replacing the maze on the homepage with the new maze going forward. You can find the maze download there !

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Happy maze-ing !