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Title: Tools for map creation
Post by: Mikai on 16 January 2025, 08:06:50 PM
So perhaps useful for some folks here, some might not know those yet: Various tools for creating maps.

Tools by watabou
You can find the following at the given link

https://watabou.itch.io/

Tools by Azgaar
You can find the following at the given link

Other commercial tools
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: Elbows on 16 January 2025, 08:46:43 PM
Yeah the dungeon creation one has been one I've had stashed for a while.  Great little one-shot dungeons.
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: Dean on 17 January 2025, 07:35:51 AM
The Region generator is perfect for Fantasy campaigns
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: Mikai on 26 January 2025, 08:48:08 PM
Quote from: Dean on 17 January 2025, 07:35:51 AM
The Region generator is perfect for Fantasy campaigns
Added Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator to the list at the opening post, a bit more complicated at usage at first glance. Might offer a bit more options though.
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: Malebolgia on 27 January 2025, 08:17:35 AM
I love Inkarnate, had a subscription for 2 years now. It can create beautiful maps and isn't that hard to use. You can use it to make worlds, regional maps or even battle maps. Here's some maps taken from google:

(https://preview.redd.it/s0rni93odgg51.jpg?auto=webp&s=614b30f9f8b06a5a6276350782622ee0e7a5e6c2)

(https://willowhwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/tucapon-inkarnate-map.jpg)

(https://cdn2.inkarnate.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=4000,height=4000/https://inkarnate-api-as-production.s3.amazonaws.com/jq6e5905ndgbc19mhv4a26knlz6b)
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: tomrommel1 on 27 January 2025, 08:42:52 AM
Very nice maps indeed.
One question, are there any tools to create naval maps?
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: Mikai on 27 January 2025, 06:57:03 PM
Inkarnate is a good name drop, Malebolgia. I have added it to the list as well as Wonderdraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RqEuUZDAIQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wonderdraft.net%2F

Quote from: tomrommel1 on 27 January 2025, 08:42:52 AM
Very nice maps indeed.
One question, are there any tools to create naval maps?
Do you have some example map at hand to show what you mean by naval maps?
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: tomrommel1 on 28 January 2025, 09:51:10 AM
I mean maps of coastal regions, for gaming on with sailing Ships. Would be nice to depict different water depth.
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: tomrommel1 on 28 January 2025, 09:53:59 AM
like this:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whiteclouds.com%2Farticles%2Fnautical-maps%2F&psig=AOvVaw3dwZFIcL-4buObM8wXNR8c&ust=1738144290748000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCIjo-p-SmIsDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: Mikai on 28 January 2025, 07:24:24 PM
I think that this should be possible to do with Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator, although I don't know how long you need to fiddle out how things are working there. At the tools there is at least the option 'Routes' which seems to offer options on how to edit searoutes as well. It seems like you can work with an imported height map there and I can see at least three different sea depth levels.
https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

The OpenSeaMap project might also be interesting for you if you play games based on the real world:
https://map.openseamap.org/

And there are also the QGIS Resources for Mariners if you want to work yourself into it. In case you want to study something related with Geography, QGIS tools are in general something useful to get into:
https://joeberkovitz.github.io/qgis-nautical/

Hope this was of help for you  :)
Title: Re: Tools for map creation
Post by: tomrommel1 on 29 January 2025, 06:26:37 AM
Thanks Mikai!