Excellent software for mapmakers

DominionsFan · #1 September 8th, 2006, 06:05 PM

Morkilus · #2 September 8th, 2006, 07:37 PM

Cool, I had an old version of that, and totally forgot about it. I personally like the cartoony maps and Lutes maps, but the fractal mapper is way fun to play with.

NTJedi · #3 September 8th, 2006, 07:56 PM

That software costs more than the Dominions3 game. Anyone know of some free mapmaking software ?

Yes I already have GIMP.

Gandalf Parker · #4 September 8th, 2006, 08:30 PM

Gimp actually generates some decent terrain. I was going to make a map off of it but I was too lazy

Check the attachment for one example

Taking a GIMP map into the maptool in Dom3 might be fun to do though.

DominionsFan · #5 September 9th, 2006, 06:39 AM

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Morkilus said:
Cool, I had an old version of that, and totally forgot about it. I personally like the cartoony maps and Lutes maps, but the fractal mapper is way fun to play with.

Yeah those are the best for Dominions.
Take a look at this CC3 map screenie:

..and you can make even better then this easily with it. I might buy CC3 to generate maps.

DominionsFan · #6 September 9th, 2006, 06:54 AM

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NTJedi said:
That software costs more than the Dominions3 game. Anyone know of some free mapmaking software ?

Yes I already have GIMP.

This one is free:

Autorealm

Daynarr · #7 September 9th, 2006, 07:12 AM

Nice looking map. Nice tool I must say. Too bad about price.

Gandalf Parker · #8 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 · #9 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 · #10 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.