Excellent software for mapmakers

Gandalf Parker · #1 September 9th, 2006, 11:24 AM

I still think that if I dig thru my old OLD games that I can find one that does really nice random map generation and a full-screen view that I can capture.

DominionsFan · #2 September 10th, 2006, 06:04 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
I still think that if I dig thru my old OLD games that I can find one that does really nice random map generation and a full-screen view that I can capture.

Hm....yes but which game? I cannot think of any in-game mapmaker what would be good to make Dominions 3. maps...well maybe the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 mapmaker. It is 2d based. 2 screenshots:

Gandalf Parker · #3 September 10th, 2006, 02:53 PM

That wouldnt be bad. Screen capture it, remove all pure white (255,255,255), add province lines and one pure white dot to each province, save it in a format that Dom3 can "see", use the dom3 map editor to add terrain values and set who is neighbor of who...

It would offer some very interesting icons to expand on. Edit that province to match why there is a tower or treasure or monster there. That would be way cool.

DominionsFan · #4 September 10th, 2006, 04:38 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
That wouldnt be bad. Screen capture it, remove all pure white (255,255,255), add province lines and one pure white dot to each province, save it in a format that Dom3 can "see", use the dom3 map editor to add terrain values and set who is neighbor of who...

It would offer some very interesting icons to expand on. Edit that province to match why there is a tower or treasure or monster there. That would be way cool.

Yeap, actually this map editor might be very good to make maps. Hm....my elder brother bought HoMM 3. & Armageddon's Blade expansion long time ago. Hopefully he can find the game somewhere in his house.

Frostmourne27 · #5 September 10th, 2006, 09:41 PM

What about the CivIV map editor? you could only do terrain probably, but it can make very cool looking worlds, and you can zoom out far enough to take a screenshot that might look ok. Not too sure though, since I haven't played Civ in quite a while.

Gandalf Parker · #6 September 10th, 2006, 10:22 PM

They all will only do terrain. Only DomMap (for Dom2) and the Dom3 map generator will create a .map file for full play. But interesting scenery is what we have in mind. We can take it into the Dom3 map editor to get a .map file for it.
(well, someone can. Im too lazy)

DominionsFan · #7 September 11th, 2006, 07:20 AM

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Frostmourne27 said:
What about the CivIV map editor? you could only do terrain probably, but it can make very cool looking worlds, and you can zoom out far enough to take a screenshot that might look ok. Not too sure though, since I haven't played Civ in quite a while.

Yeah I was thinking about this game also. Anyways now I am trying to get HoMM III. from my brother. I think that map editor would be perfect, especially if someone ccould edit [photoshop] the created maps a bit. I will surely give it a try.

Cainehill · #8 September 11th, 2006, 11:50 AM

Hmmm - I wonder what version of Campaign Cartographer I have, since they have an upgrade offer for as far back as V2....