Re: Map making aid
 

Looks good. I was playing in the same tools so I understand that this is a map generated automatically by script with some of the icons Kristoffer provided laid down. Looks like a good start.

Ive been playing with the high end of my palette to try and get it to do decent mountainous areas (brown climbing to a grey top).

How do you think swamp/river might easily be added? Just scribble a river with blue, select by color, then blur the selection?

Or maybe a palette gradually going green->yellow (beach), yellow->light blue (river), then back up thru beach to green? So its green on the sides with blue in the middle. Draw with an airbrush type stroke?

Ive been playing with trying to get "edge" to find the color boundarys as a starting point for provinces. Then just draw more across areas that are too big.

NOTE: the program used to do all this is the same as the devs use. A powerful Paint program which is free and available for most platforms. Its called GIMP

[ January 22, 2004, 13:52: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]