Map making aid

Kristoffer O · #1 January 21st, 2004, 10:57 PM

I have just added a map making aid on the Illwinter site. It's just a xcf file (gimp) with some trees and mountains. Just cut and paste. I hope it will encourage mapmaking. I wonder what took me so long.

If you need the file in another format I'll make another one.

Gandalf Parker · #2 January 21st, 2004, 11:23 PM

Thanks much. I guess I should put up some of the palettes I did which make the GIMP rendering scripts work better. Between the two its a good start. Here is an example of a rendered map from GIMP.
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/rendered.tga

BTW if no one mentioned it yet I do appreciate the different temple images for each race.

Nice thematic touch.

[ January 21, 2004, 21:26: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Arralen · #3 January 22nd, 2004, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
I have just added a map making aid on the Illwinter site. It's just a xcf file (gimp) with some trees and mountains.
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I wonder what took me so long.

Me too ....

I already set my, ahem, "phase-in-my-life-attenderess" to make me some symbols/icons so I can get rid of those ugly DOM-1 style maps. She's quite good with pen&pencil&paper ..

Kirstens Sci-Fi and Fantasy Art Gallery
Kirstens Fan Art Gallery

Sadly, she's not quite that good when english is concerned. Check out here pages anyway ... while I'm doing some articles for a living and return to mapmaking afterwards.

yours,
Arralen

[ January 22, 2004, 00:00: Message edited by: Arralen ]

#4 January 22nd, 2004, 01:13 AM

I see you modeled for the Jack Sparrow doll!

Arralen · #5 January 22nd, 2004, 01:16 AM

Sssssshh!!

It's pure coincidence that that doll looks like anything from some film. Or bears the same name. really. Otherwise there would be copyright issues... .

And o.c. Kirsten would never think about making such a doll for someone else, unless she may give it away for free ... .

same for the beanie dragons, by the way ...

A.

[ January 21, 2004, 23:20: Message edited by: Arralen ]

Arralen · #6 January 22nd, 2004, 02:20 AM

O.k. gave it a try ..
Random map created by fu-script (GIMP), icons manually added.

A cutout from the map - the part I actually worked on.

The whole .tga for download - not that interesting perhaps.

The GIMP gradient file I used for generating the map.

Hope this works and the files don't get deleted too fast (it's 'free' server space, you know

)

A.

PS: We need hills!!

PPS: I occures to me that there are different perspectives used in this pic - the map is top down, the icons are from an somewhat angled perspective. I'll try to mod the map to fit this ..

[ January 22, 2004, 00:24: Message edited by: Arralen ]

#7 January 22nd, 2004, 02:27 AM

The Icons being slightly off top perspective isn't that bad. You just have to make sure you draw your borders correctly and it shouldn't be an issue at all. I prefer it that way.

Arralen · #8 January 22nd, 2004, 07:53 AM

Bump - any comments if the colors are o.k. for most of you?

A.

#9 January 22nd, 2004, 08:01 AM

The colors look fine to me. Make a frosty mountain and a volcano, and maybe a jungle (if you have the icons) and post the pic, then we could tell on things like that. Also a river and a marsh? (Maybe make a Delta) for swampy effects.

Saber Cherry · #10 January 22nd, 2004, 08:04 AM

Looks pretty good...

Let's see. Beaches (pink-white or yellowish) would be nice. Hmmmm...

The size ratio of icons to landforms give the map an impression of being tiny.