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Hand of Evil's Mapwhenever - Unfinished campiagn map
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Chronosome
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Very nice! 
Thank you.Chronosome said:Very nice!
ergeheilalt
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What program did you use?
I'd like to convert my hand drawn maps into something a little cleaner [Edit: Apparently my link isn't working - check here: http://www.geocities.com/ergeheilalt/pics.html under Maps ]
Erge
grrr, got the link right
I'd like to convert my hand drawn maps into something a little cleaner [Edit: Apparently my link isn't working - check here: http://www.geocities.com/ergeheilalt/pics.html under Maps ]
Erge
grrr, got the link right
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James Heard
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That's Campaign Cartographer Pro I think. If you're just looking to "clean up" your hand originals I'd suggest just using Adobe Illustrator since it is a little more user-friendly than CC. A lot of the CC-Pro maps have a really similar look to them because of the common symbol sets and such, but with Illustrator it's not too hard to build custom symbols from a scanned image and clone them and your maps never come out looking much like everyone else's maps. Add in filters like you have in Photoshop and you've got a pretty versatile program.
On the other hand, for some looks CC-Pro has got in in spades over Illustrator. If you liked the look from the Harn maps, there are tools for CC-Pro that can help you pop out maps that look like they were printed from the game books once you've muddled through learning CC-Pro. If you've got exact distances in mind, CC-Pro is better than Illustrator too since it has imbedded ruler tools to help you measure distance. To do that with Illustrator you have to make arbitrary rulers and then drag them around for reference as you're building the image. CC-Pro also has add-on sets that make really nice city maps, apparently MUCH easier than Illustrator can unless you're simply tracing a scanned image because their city designer is capable of randomly throwing buildings along streets as filler. Finally, CC-Pro should be coming out with their perspectives add-on soon which has me feeling almost gooey because it claims to be able to help people make those neat little isometric perspective maps that I fell in love with the first time I read Ravenloft.
In addition, Photoshop is capable of dishing out all of this and is best for handling photorealistic textures. If you have ambitions of making your map look like a painting, be easily adjustable, and you don't have much experience with vector graphics or CAD design Photoshop might be the easiest way to just sit down and clean up a hand drawn map on the computer. Plus there are probably a hundred times as many Photoshop tutorials and experts out there to brain pick than all of the users of Illustrator and CC-Pro combined.
Good luck!
On the other hand, for some looks CC-Pro has got in in spades over Illustrator. If you liked the look from the Harn maps, there are tools for CC-Pro that can help you pop out maps that look like they were printed from the game books once you've muddled through learning CC-Pro. If you've got exact distances in mind, CC-Pro is better than Illustrator too since it has imbedded ruler tools to help you measure distance. To do that with Illustrator you have to make arbitrary rulers and then drag them around for reference as you're building the image. CC-Pro also has add-on sets that make really nice city maps, apparently MUCH easier than Illustrator can unless you're simply tracing a scanned image because their city designer is capable of randomly throwing buildings along streets as filler. Finally, CC-Pro should be coming out with their perspectives add-on soon which has me feeling almost gooey because it claims to be able to help people make those neat little isometric perspective maps that I fell in love with the first time I read Ravenloft.
In addition, Photoshop is capable of dishing out all of this and is best for handling photorealistic textures. If you have ambitions of making your map look like a painting, be easily adjustable, and you don't have much experience with vector graphics or CAD design Photoshop might be the easiest way to just sit down and clean up a hand drawn map on the computer. Plus there are probably a hundred times as many Photoshop tutorials and experts out there to brain pick than all of the users of Illustrator and CC-Pro combined.
Good luck!
ergeheilalt
First Post
Cool - thanks!
Erge
Erge
Campaign Cartographer Pro by Profantasy.
You may want to try AutoRealm, a free program.
You may want to try AutoRealm, a free program.
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