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Old January 21st, 2005, 03:51 PM
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Default Re: How to make maps?

There is DomMap which is a Dominions map generator with pages of options. Its not the prettiest maps but it can be used as a starting point. Check out these.
http://www.dom2minions.com/~dominion...andomMaps.html
They are re-generated fresh each day. Feel free to snag one and improve it with paste-on graphics

A guy named Targa did some nice maps and he used DomMap (which is free and downloadable by the way) to generate "blank" maps like these..
http://www.dom2minions.com/~targa/blanks

There are also "terrain generators". I think Photoshop might have addons for that. I know that GIMP does which is a free paint program of that level (though not so easy to learn how to use). Here are some examples of those...
http://www.dom2minions.com/~dominion...ects/gimp1.jpg
http://www.dom2minions.com/~dominion...ects/gimp2.jpg
http://www.dom2minions.com/~dominion...ects/gimp3.jpg
http://www.dom2minions.com/~dominion...ects/gimp4.jpg

Or you can find maps already done. Fantasy worlds, from books, etc. Some nice ones have been done from US Geological Survey arial photos. I keep looking because Im SURE that some of the older games had map generators which would work well for us but I havent found one I really like yet
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