University Students Create Game Mapping Program

[xerxez]

Free Cartographer Program


This is open use and you may use it for commercial purposes for free. Now get designing!

[verhaden]

Cool thing about the generated maps:

If you go into Photoshop (and I assume this would be similar in GIMP), you can adjust the threshold levels to get this:

imgur.com/dPCVio6

[Koren n'Rhys]

That site is exactly what I used to create the map of my campaign world "Caldera" back in 2012. I generated a who bunch of maps, then cut, pasted, re-sized and combined to get the final product.

You can see it >here<

[xerxez]

I like these! See I am way behind again...Koren I don't know how I missed your blog, that's great! I'll have to read up in there! Looks like an interesting campaign.

I do weird things to get maps sometimes.

I am OCD when it comes to map making and I'm never happy with what I draw so I will grab texture rubbings off of worn concrete, drywall texture (the larger splash patterns), burned edges of paper, dead leaves I pick up on the ground. I have even splattered daubs of paint on porous paper, let them bleed together and then based my map on the resultant patterns.

I am aware that this is nutso. However, it's also fun! It seems more fun to arrange the geography of a fantasy map when you have a completely random or nearly random design.

[kesher]

Dood, again, renewing requests to see pictures of these things you make!

[coffee]

Feb 2, 2015 18:30:39 GMT -6 xerxez said:

I am aware that this is nutso.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Sometimes nutso is the best way to go!

[Koren n'Rhys]

Feb 2, 2015 18:30:39 GMT -6 xerxez said:

Koren I don't know how I missed your blog, that's great! I'll have to read up in there! Looks like an interesting campaign.

Thanks for the compliment, Xerxex. You'll quickly see I almost never post, but I appreciate it nonetheless!