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Offline Mikai

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Tools for map creation
« on: January 16, 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
  • Medieval Fantasy City Generator
  • Cave/Glade Generator
  • Generator for Dwellings
  • Neighbourhood Generator
  • One Page Dungeon Generator
  • Fantasy Region Generator
  • Village Generator
  • some other stuff

https://watabou.itch.io/

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

Other commercial tools
« Last Edit: January 28, 2025, 07:12:34 PM by Mikai »

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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 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.
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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2025, 07:35:51 AM »
The Region generator is perfect for Fantasy campaigns

Offline Mikai

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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2025, 08:48:08 PM »
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.

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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 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:





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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2025, 08:42:52 AM »
Very nice maps indeed.
One question, are there any tools to create naval maps?
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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 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

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?

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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 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.


Offline Mikai

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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 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  :)

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Re: Tools for map creation
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2025, 06:26:37 AM »
Thanks Mikai!

 

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