Re: "Hand Drawn" style maps...
Good find BB.
That one isnt bad. But if the map was dropped down to almost a 2-color image (black and white) then sepia'd Im thinking the result would look more like a pencil drawing.
There are also tools on many paint programs to try and do the same thing. Posterizing might help also (kills the details in order to make big solid-colored areas)
Something else people might look at is the old Dom2 3rd party map-generator called DomMap. You can set it for the colors you want. And either speckled or solid-colored provinces. The result is considered ugly now but since it creates a fairly useful map without added images then it would work to create a blank template to find and add your own images to.
http://www.dom3minions.com/~dominion...andomMaps.html
or even the stripped down "blanks" that Targa used to start with for his maps (also made with DomMap).
http://www.dom3minions.com/~targa/blanks/
You might also look at Harbringers new mapgen which can create template maps that are wrappable. Like these..
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMap...ll_Wrapped.htm
Add in some graphics from other programs and it can be a unique and very playable map
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Last edited by Gandalf Parker; October 26th, 2008 at 12:51 PM..
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