1E World Map Style Icons Released

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If you like Hexographer’s easy to use interface, but prefer maps in the 1E World of Greyhawk boxed set style, we’ve just released a new icon set that fills this niche perfectly. This page has more details including samples, a how-to video, and how to order. Note: The icons are transparent PNGs, using in other bitmap map/image editors which import PNG.

Hexographer already has built in several icons to create maps in the 1E World of Greyhawk map style, and there is a tutorial that shows how to use Hexographer to create these maps. But this icon set gives you more options: more tree clusters, mountain ranges, etc. Plus there are icons for new/different terrain types! These icons are done in the same style by artist/cartographer Keith Curtis, but cover other terrain such as: dead tree forests, forested mountains, sand dunes, badlands, etc.
 

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Very cool!

Question, I want to use these to make maps of the Starship Warden. Is there support for some kind of template or constraint like the large oval shape of the warden?
 

Your could make an oval with a thick wall (go to the shapes tab, select an oval, then set the border width and color as desired and set it to have no fill. So that would get you a large oval, but there is no logic to trim the edges of the icons at the wall. The wall can be placed above the terrain so if the wall is thick enough it would cover part of the icon.

I'd give that a try with the built-in icons, and if you get the effect you want then pick up the pro version and extra icons.

And of course if you are comfortable with Photoshop or GIMP you could always do the bulk of the work in Hexographer and then export the map as a PNG and do the fine tuning using the other software.
 


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