How To Draw Fantasy Art And Rpg Maps: Pdf Download

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Map creator

This map creator tool will allow you to the create a whole world of your own design using well over 1400 dissimilar images. I included natural parts for the inner mural, similar forests, mountains and hills. All of these elements tin be dragged around if you enable this characteristic.

To create the maps I used a filigree system, I further divided the maps into sections with 3 connection points. For the top and lesser information technology will exist left, right and the middle, for the sides it volition exist top, lesser and the eye. Information technology might sound a footling confusing, merely the following images should help explain it.

Instructions

If you thought 1180 dissimilar images was all you were getting you idea wrong. You lot can also rotate all pieces, mirror them, you can change the map size and you can drag around and resize the draggable pieces.

To do all this the instructions are as follows:
- Adding a piece to the map: Click on whichever map piece you wish to change (y'all can select multiple), it will have a blueish highlight if it'south selected. At present click on any of the pieces from the pick card (outward corners, inward corners, etc.), the highlighted square is at present turned into whichever piece yous selected. Notation that the draggable and the characterization layers have to be toggled off to access the bottom pieces.
- Rotating a piece: Click on whichever slice(s) on the map you wish to rotate (including draggable pieces) and so it has the blue highlight once more. Now click on one of the rotate buttons ("rotate xc", "rotate 180", "rotate 270", "reset") to rotate it.
- Mirror: You tin can mirror an image by selecting information technology and clicking the mirror button.
- Toggle grid: You tin can enable and disable the grid to get a improve view of the map past hitting the "toggle grid" button.
- Resetting: To reset the whole map, just click on the "reset map" push. This doesn't reset the draggable piece, click "reset drags" for that. To reset an individual foursquare back to a sea piece, click on information technology then it has the blue highlight and click the "reset piece" button.
- Dragging pieces: Tick the "Enable draggable pieces" checkbox. Now click on 1 of the "Land and Body of water" pieces in the choice menu to add a piece to the map. This piece can exist dragged around with your mouse.
- Toggle drags/labels: Toggle the visibility of the draggable pieces or labels on and off using the "toggle drags" button. You have to turn of these layers to access the bottom layer, which is the regular map.
- Layer one & ii: There are two layers for the draggable pieces, this way you tin stack parts more than easily, organize elements by type, and then on. Layer 2 will be subconscious when ane is active to make sure y'all can access it.
- Toggle resize: Toggles the ability to resize draggable pieces or labels, this allows for further customization and for customization with more precision.
- Toggle Filigree Snap: Yous can toggle grid snap on and off by clicking the corresponding button. When grid snap is on, all draggable pieces will snap to an invisible grid. This makes lining them all up much easier.
- Delete draggable/label: To delete a draggable piece or a label, click information technology to select information technology, its edge will turn bluish. Then click the 'delete draggable' or 'delete label' push button respectively to remove information technology.
- Add label:Just click this to add together a label to the map. Y'all can drag it around, resize it and type annihilation you want in information technology.
- Toggle label borders: The borders go far easy to come across the boundaries of the labels and to movement them around, only once yous're done y'all tin toggle them off by clicking this push.
- Random map: Click the 'Random' button beneath the map to have a random map generated in an instant.
- Change map size: Scroll down to below the map, only insert the values you wish to change the map size and striking apply.
- Custom images: You tin add custom images to the map by selecting a regular piece or a draggable piece, so clicking "Fix background" to set the selected piece to whichever image link yous entered in the input field.
- Hex grid: You can toggle a hex-grid overlay using the "Toggle hex overlay on" button. Yous can resize it using the number values, it'll change automatically as you lot change the numbers. This style y'all can adapt the map to tabletop RPGs.

Map Instructions Image

Saving and loading your map

It's possible to save your map and get back to it subsequently, yous can do so by simply clicking the 'save map' button. This will salve the map with all the pieces, including draggable pieces, locally in your browser. This only works if you lot don't use incognito mode and only if you use a modern browser (and so no IE7 for instance). You can close your browser after you lot've clicked salve, information technology'll still be at that place when you open up it again.
toggle When y'all want to load your map you merely click 'load map' and it'll input all the map pieces back into their original positions. Do annotation that if you inverse the map size y'all will take to modify it once again before loading the map.

Saving locally

It's also possible to relieve the map data locally. Simply click the "Salve local" button to have the lawmaking create a text file with all the map code in it, then click on the download link to download information technology direct to your estimator. Now you lot tin can utilise the "Choose file" field to upload your map data and employ it in the futurity. This method makes certain there's no hazard of losing all your data in example your browser data is wiped, for case, but information technology does mean keeping runway of your downloaded file.

Important: Draggable pieces and labels

Note that when the draggable pieces and/or labels are toggled on (and thus visible on the map) you won't exist able to select the squared pieces beneath, the draggable pieces and the labels are placed using an overlay which blocks you from accessing what's beneath.

Planning tool

This tool is mostly meant for planning purposes, at to the lowest degree if you lot want a detailed map. Natural elements are extremely varied, not only in size and shape, but also in positioning, their effect on other natural elements and much more than.
A tool like this won't exist able to replicate nature well, a square filigree system with predefined images would require far more than images to do then. Only it still works cracking equally a tool to help you plan the platonic version of your map. You can still place elements where y'all roughly want them to be.
To illustrate this, I made a map using this generator every bit a planning ground and I then fine tuned that map in an editing plan to become a more natural looking map.

Map Instructions Image

Click the paradigm for a larger version.

Y'all can plainly go way across this, like DeviantArt user TheFrenchedCanadian who made the piece beneath. With a little time and skill you can turn the rough, planning version into a fully fledged map.

Map Instructions Image

Click the paradigm for a larger version.

Saving the prototype

If y'all wish to relieve the map yous've created all yous have to exercise is click the 'Turn into image' button and an image will announced below it that looks exactly like what you've created. The just difference being that this is a single image, rather than a whole lot of separate images. Simply right click it, select 'save as' and name information technology what you wish. That's all there is to information technology.

Copyright

Many of you have asked how they can utilize the maps created with this map creator. You lot're costless to employ maps yous've created in books, games, and similar projects as long as my site'southward credited. Everything else (the tool, the assets, etc.) are off limits. If you have a question, feel free to send me a message with the contact form.

Tip: You can elevate and resize the menus below.

Outward Corners

Inward Corners

Sides

Icons

Top-Left

Top-Right

Bottom-Left

Bottom-Right

Peak-Left

Tiptop-Right

Bottom-Left

Bottom-Right

Geography

Structures & Copse

Water

Regular Controls
Read the instructions higher up for more info on the controls.

Custom image:

Draggable-only Controls
Enable draggable pieces

Other Controls

Hex grid size:

Random map
Infinite worlds! Well, not actually infinite, but still, billions upon billions of worlds!
Simply click the button below and a random globe created randomly from a database of over 1200 (I didn't include the land and sea icons) $.25 and pieces will exist generated within seconds.

Change map size
If you demand a bigger map you can change the size by inbound the width and summit you wish below, the values are in units of squares, like the ones you run across when the grid is enabled.
I've capped the maximum size at 35 10 35, which is also large for many screens anyhow. The minimum width is 6, the minimum peak is 2.

Note: Using a big value for width on a pocket-size screen will likely brand the page mess up a lilliputian. Zooming out volition fix that, but it'll make creating a map more than difficult, so try to stick to what fits on your screen.

Width: Length:
Irresolute the map size will reset everything.

Note: Sometimes pieces may show up every bit water in the finished image. If this happens modify that prototype in the map to a different 1, then change it back and turn to image again. This usually fixes it.
As well, labels aren't saved. If y'all need those a screenshot is however the easiest way of getting them, or but add them afterward using fancy fonts. :)