OT - Size of medieval capitals

Roanon · #1 May 20th, 2004, 01:27 AM

For pure design, if you are looking for an easy tool to design maps, I am using campaign cartographer / city designer from here, here (search for keyword Taevar). I really love this programm, the maps look complicated and like a lot of work, but after taking a small learning curve its really very easy to use and create such maps.

dogscoff · #2 May 19th, 2004, 02:11 PM

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, if you are looking for an easy tool to design maps, I am using campaign cartographer / city designer

Hmm, that would have been good to know about before I went and made
this.

Mind you, given that Primavera is over 100kn wide, a building-by-building map as shown in those screenshots might have been a bit ambitious...

Roanon · #3 May 19th, 2004, 03:43 PM

delete function still missing in this forum....

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Roanon · #4 May 19th, 2004, 03:44 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Roanon:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
[qb]Hmm, that would have been good to know about before I went and made
this.

You should have asked

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Mind you, given that Primavera is over 100kn wide, a building-by-building map as shown in those screenshots might have been a bit ambitious...

You'd be surprised. City Designer has excellent macroing and random placement features, plus it is very easy to place buildings auto-aligning near streets, copy whole blocks changing just a few features, and much more. Good output with little input. I would guess, for example, about 1-2 hours of work for a map like yours, everything (distance scaling, names, etc.) included. Add a few hours per quarter, and you have a detailled map with buildings...

tesco samoa · #5 May 19th, 2004, 04:04 PM

hey you should also check out world of darkness.. Vampire Dark Ages... They have some great maps of cities from that time.

As does the other series

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 May 19th, 2004, 09:35 PM

City designer doesn't have a demo Version and I don't have money to spare right now, so that's going to have to wait.

Thanks anyway.
In the meantime, I really should put roads in. Half the city's probably starving.

Thanks, all.

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Originally posted by Roanon:
For pure design, if you are looking for an easy tool to design maps, I am using campaign cartographer / city designer from here, here (search for keyword Taevar). I really love this programm, the maps look complicated and like a lot of work, but after taking a small learning curve its really very easy to use and create such maps.

[ May 19, 2004, 21:12: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Roanon · #7 May 19th, 2004, 11:40 PM

Or just search their database or the webring, download a suitable map and pass it as your own