Dunjinni Questions: Mostly Cities and Urban Stuff

[mattcolville]

How long would it take a normal user to whip up a street encounter in Dunjinni?

I'm planning on running a lot of D&D via Fantasy Grounds and while there are lots of map resources online, I find them hard to hunt down and search through and so I'm wondering if it some cases it would be easier to roll my own.

It certainly looks easy enough for normal wilderness encounters, but what about Urban stuff?

If I can whip up streets and roofs in like...30 minutes, then I'm sold. What are your experiences with Dunj?

 

[kitsune9]

I have Dundjinni and it depends upon how many different images you have to create the street encounter or how simple you want it to look. If you're going for "frickin awesome!" look and you have enough images, then whipping it up should only take 30 min at the most. Otherwise, if you have to go around and hunt for the cool images on the Dundjinni forums to be able to build your map, that can take as long as you're willing to hunt.

Also, to increase the efficiency of your image files, be sure to group them by type. For example, I have a folder for buildings so I can just plop them down.

Usually if I do a street scene, I'll create the roads first. Drop down the buildings. Add things like trees, wells, mud, and walls, and then touch up areas by using cover overlays of shadows and crack features. Then I'm done!

 

[Stormonu]

Dungeon and Wilderness are certainly easy - as are building interiors, but I haven't found a great many surfaces for replicating urban exteriors (like building roofs) - unless I'm missing some art packs (I have temple, castle, dungeon, user collection 1, user collection 2, village and wilds) or some of the users have posted some stuff in the forums I'm not aware of.

Kitsune9, If you know of any, I'd certainly like links to the surfaces (or samples of some full maps) for some of the maps I do.

 

[kitsune9]

Stormonu,

You should look in the Dundjinni forums and search for "buildings" or "rooftops".

Here's one set that I liked:

Dundjinni Mapping Software - Forums: Buildings.

A lot of posters post their completed encounter maps on the forums as well though many of them have been photoshopped after they create it in Dundjinni.

For those of you who do not have Dundjinni, but just need some cool-looking maps, go to the Dundjinni website, click on the Forums under User Creations and feel free to browse through. There are various encounter maps that you can save and then print out on your own.

 

[mattcolville]

There's some good stuff in there.

 

[mattcolville]

Is it my imagination or is Dunjinni basically no longer for sale? And has not been since *November* of last year?

 

[cyderak]

Yes Dundjinni has been shut down because the owner of the property has had a family emergency. I bought Dundjinni once before but lost my purchase info so when I moved it from my old computer to the new one it would'nt register. Great software, just poorly organized support.

 

[mattcolville]

Yes Dundjinni has been shut down because the owner of the property has had a family emergency. I bought Dundjinni once before but lost my purchase info so when I moved it from my old computer to the new one it would'nt register. Great software, just poorly organized support.

Well that sucks.

 

[wedgeski]

Well that sucks.

Yes it does, especially considering that the task of making the downloads area of the store available, along with everyone's registration keys, would be trivial at best. I'm afraid I'm more inclined to believe that there is something else going on, or even that the database with everyone's purchase data has been irretrievably lost.