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Which is best? Campaign Cartographer? Dundjinni?
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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5884604" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>First advice, join the Cartographers' Guild website, this is a site dedicated to the creation of maps for fiction, RPGs and other uses. Most if not all of the professional cartographers in the RPG industry are members there.</p><p> </p><p>In that site are lists of all known mapping applications, costs, where to find them. Also on the site are tutorials for most of those mapping applications.</p><p> </p><p>If you're looking for something simple to use - Hexographer is not bad.</p><p> </p><p>If you don't mind CAD (I hate CAD) - CC3 is a good choice.</p><p> </p><p>If you like stamping programs (I don't) - Dundjinni is a stamping program.</p><p> </p><p>If you ask a pro cartographer what they use - most likely Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, Illustrator...</p><p> </p><p>If you ask me, I'll say Xara Designer Pro 7 (which is what I use) which is a vector drawing program like Inkscape or Illustrator, but has very powerful beveling, transparency, works well with bitmap images, and I find to be the fastest to create effective maps.</p><p> </p><p>Here's a link to my <strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/media-lounge-miscellaneous-geek-topics/257465-gamerprinters-map-emporeum.html" target="_blank">Cartography thread</a></strong> here on ENWorld - again all created using Xara software. Note there are also many illustrations, especially at the end of that thread, they too were created in Xara.</p><p> </p><p>Join the Cartographers' Guild as your most important decision!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 5884604, member: 50895"] First advice, join the Cartographers' Guild website, this is a site dedicated to the creation of maps for fiction, RPGs and other uses. Most if not all of the professional cartographers in the RPG industry are members there. In that site are lists of all known mapping applications, costs, where to find them. Also on the site are tutorials for most of those mapping applications. If you're looking for something simple to use - Hexographer is not bad. If you don't mind CAD (I hate CAD) - CC3 is a good choice. If you like stamping programs (I don't) - Dundjinni is a stamping program. If you ask a pro cartographer what they use - most likely Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, Illustrator... If you ask me, I'll say Xara Designer Pro 7 (which is what I use) which is a vector drawing program like Inkscape or Illustrator, but has very powerful beveling, transparency, works well with bitmap images, and I find to be the fastest to create effective maps. Here's a link to my [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/media-lounge-miscellaneous-geek-topics/257465-gamerprinters-map-emporeum.html"]Cartography thread[/URL][/B] here on ENWorld - again all created using Xara software. Note there are also many illustrations, especially at the end of that thread, they too were created in Xara. Join the Cartographers' Guild as your most important decision! [/QUOTE]
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