World Map Making

[turelus]

I just wanted to ask if any one knew of any good programs for making world maps, or region maps. I have tried using Campaign Cartographer 2 but didn't get on with it very well I never really figured out how anything worked or how to make a good map.

[Griogre]

If a simple hex mapper will work for you like this:



This was made with AKS, which while pretty dated works fine and is really simple (and free). There is a yahoo group for the software here: https://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Hexmapper_Haven/

[Valarian]

Campaign Cartographer is based on CAD technology and can take some getting used to. It's worth the effort to do the tutorials and to persevere. The output you can get out from it is worth it. The Cartographer's Guild is a community of mappers and there are a fair number of us that use Campaign Cartographer. Why not drop by and see if we can inspire you to give CC2 another go.

Some examples of Campaign Cartographer stuff I've done, and I certainly can't claim any artistic talent:
https://forum.cartographersguild.com...php?albumid=18

[Hamish]

Check out these CC/DD tutorials. Might make you reconsider CC.....

https://rpgvirtualtabletop.com/articles/article5.html

[mcgarnagle]

Also, there is a program called Dundjinni. It is mostly used to make encounter maps but there is a growing number of regional/world maps being made with it as well. I've tried using CC as well and gave up on it once I found how easy it is to use Dundjinni.


Dundjinni Main Page

Be sure to check out the community forum as well because there are thousands of art peices to download that can then be used in your map making. For world mapping, check out the Isometric forum for art peices.

ISO forum

[unerwünscht]

So what do you need in a world map?
Will something like this help any? If so I can make you as many of these as you need (within reason)

[wigwam]

Slightly off-topic but someone recently sent me this link:
https://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rp...e_1_0Final.pdf

Thought y'all might find it useful...

[PneumaPilot]

In all (half) seriousness, crayons and colored pencils may be the quickest and easiest to control.

[Oberoten]

Slightly off-topic but someone recently sent me this link:
https://www.clanwebsite.org/games/rp...e_1_0Final.pdf

Thought y'all might find it useful...

Saved this one.
Sounds like a FUN way to create a gaming world.

[Phystus]

In all (half) seriousness, crayons and colored pencils may be the quickest and easiest to control.

Yeah, but.

I converted my campaign from paper & pencil to FG, and tried scanning my old colored-pencil maps. And frankly they looked like crap. I ended up redoing them (with my wife's help) in PaintShop Pro. It goes fairly quickly once you get used to it, but I'll grant that getting used to it takes awhile.

I did get Fractal Mapper (version 7 if anyone cares) but didn't like it. I haven't tried any of the other options out there. I tend to go for old-school hex and graph paper styled maps rather than the works of art that you see out of CC3 and DJ, so any paint program would do for me, I had Paint Shop Pro so that's what I used.

~P