Zombie Nirvana Cartography

ZombieButch

First Post

• Aug 16, 2006

• #1

For folks who haven't stopped by my website yet, I have about twenty free maps available on my cartography page. I've just added two new ones: a small city done in a modern-looking mapping style, and a castle and the village surrounding it. These were done as unlabelled generic maps, so you can print them out and label them as you see fit.

 

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ZombieButch

First Post

• Aug 19, 2006

• #2

Added a new map tonight, inspired by S. John Ross's maps as well as the work of some old 17th century Dutch cartographers I was admiring last night. Mostly a proof-of-concept piece, to figure out some techniques, but still, it was pretty fun!

 

ZombieButch

First Post

• Aug 19, 2006

• #3

Last night I added a tutorial to my site, for a alternate method of creating the nifty texture effect S. John Ross used for his Uresia: Grave of Heaven maps. It's on the front page at Zombie Nirvana, and S. John tells me he'll be adding it to the Uresia website Blue Lamp Road when he gets a chance.

 

jgbrowning

Hero

• Aug 19, 2006

• #4

Cool. Always glad to see maps.

joe b.

 

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Baron Opal

First Post

• Aug 20, 2006

• #5

When you look at the Dreed Sea Witches map, the landmass is covered in a forest. How was that done, and can you do it in campaign cartographer?

 

ZombieButch

First Post

• Aug 20, 2006

• #6

Baron Opal said:

When you look at the Dreed Sea Witches map, the landmass is covered in a forest. How was that done, and can you do it in campaign cartographer?

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I'm guessing that that's a map in the d20 version of Uresia... I have the BESM version, so I can't be sure.

That said, just having seen S. John's other maps and having seen how he places forests on other maps, he probably put it there using the same method. In other words, creating a seamless forest pattern in Photoshop.

You might be able to do it by using a bitmap fill style in CC2, with a seamless forest BMP. I've never tried it, though, so I can't say how well it'd work.

 

Jürgen Hubert

First Post

• Aug 20, 2006

• #7

palehorse said:

Last night I added a tutorial to my site, for a alternate method of creating the nifty texture effect S. John Ross used for his Uresia: Grave of Heaven maps. It's on the front page at Zombie Nirvana, and S. John tells me he'll be adding it to the Uresia website Blue Lamp Road when he gets a chance.

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Well, I've added it to the RPGNet Art Tutorial List...

 

ZombieButch

First Post

• Aug 20, 2006

• #8

Jürgen Hubert said:

Well, I've added it to the RPGNet Art Tutorial List...

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Cool. Now that I'm a little more awake, I'll probably go back in and polish it up a bit. (What with me writing at 3AM and all... I've noticed a couple of wonky bits now that I look over it again.) And I've toyed around with a couple of additional bits that I'll add back in as well.

 

ZombieButch

First Post

• Aug 25, 2006

• #9

Here's Skull Island, a little map I knocked out with a nifty random map creation technique and some noodling.