Re: GIMP and maps
Now Ive seen mention that some appropriate brushes might be coming for use in Dom2 maps. Just clipping the trees and mountains and such might work. Im not sure if having a seperate picture file for each is good unless there is a way to keep them in a seperate menu or something so they dont all load every time I use gimp.
Maybe just a seperate jpg with those on it just far enough apart from each other to make it easy to clip-n-paste? Having 2 images up at once (template and map Im working on) seems less cluttered to me than 100 brushes.
And Im suspecting that one of the advantages of using gimp would be the layers feature? I could list a bunch of sites (probably should) where you can get things like satellite images, topographical maps, world maps, fantasy world maps. All of them would work as the initial image. Then Im thinking the cool thing is to work the borders and capital dots as an overlay image? Starting with an image and save it to a layer, then drop the colors immensley and do an edge detect to get some borders based on terrains. Save that to a layer, add more borders for provinces, add capital dots, overlay and save? Something like that?
Im about to tackle learning the layers thing if anyone has some hints.
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[ December 04, 2003, 17:18: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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