what is the best "paint" program to work with maps? (in windows)

[numskully]

gimp is a very nice program, thanks all.

in the script area there are 2 random map generators, good ones in fact.

thanks again all!

[Johan K]

Which scripts do you use to generate random maps?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Johan K:
Which scripts do you use to generate random maps?

Actually there are 3 of them. I thought you used them as a base. They look pretty close. Sorry but I didnt notice this post and started another thread that was gimp specific. I mention the scripts there.

[ December 04, 2003, 17:09: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Johan K]

Thank you!

I wonder how I have managed to never notice those all this time.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Johan K:
Thank you!

I wonder how I have managed to never notice those all this time.

Im looking forward to what we will get now that you know.

Now if we could just get someone to write a script-fu to do an overlay layer with province lines.

[Gandalf Parker]

A very interesting generating program Ive found called Fractal Terrains. Check out this little "quick start" file. I especially liked the "skull world" and what that implies for importing images to seed off of.
http://www.profantasy.com/library/fi...Quickstart.pdf
Im checking out the demo now. Not sure if I will buy it.

EDIT: Interesting but I think not worth the price. Very easy to use to get interesting maps. Easy to create, and save settings, for colors and land patterns which work well. But I think I will shift attention back to the GIMP scripts

[ December 06, 2003, 13:18: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Pymont]

For random terrain generation, try Wilbur. It was made by the same people who did Fractal Terrains. It's probably not as sophisticated as Fractal Terrains, but it's free.

Get it at:
http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~jslayton/software.html