Joel Fagin
First Post
Hello, all. I'm new here, if you're wondering, and I'm more or less popping in to see if anyone is interested in a little project of mine.
What it is, is a Photoshop file which helps me make custom maps very quickly. It's a selection of layers that you draw on in white, and Photoshop applies some filters to turn your white into bushes, water, grass, rocks and so on. I'll show you what I mean...
Here's a quick shot of the blank map in Photoshop. Notice the layers on the side. You can choose, say, the "Water" layer and scribble on it in white and you'll get a river. Here's some more scribbles showing you craters, rocks, sand, road and a bush.
And here are some finished samples...
A3 map of a generic creek.
A3 map of a generic road.
4 x A3 map of a gully entrance for my campaign. (There's more gully, too, but this gives you the gist of it.)
Each of those takes me about five to ten minutes and I'm fortunate enough to have a colour A3 laser printer at work to rattle off the finished results. Unfortunately, the file is very large and requires a pretty spiffing computer to run it.
I was wondering, basically, if anyone wanted a copy (although I need to find somewhere to host the massive great thing). I was also hoping some Photoshop aficionados hereabouts might want to help out. The problem with maps, of course, is that there's always more to add. Right now, the file does great outside maps but only passable inside maps. Outside, after all, is all terrain, but inside needs things like chairs, barrels, sacks, fountains, coffins, sarcophagi, levers, doors, braziers, stone walls, cave walls, wooden walls... You get the idea.
Basically, I suppose, I'm trying to open source it.
- Joel Fagin
What it is, is a Photoshop file which helps me make custom maps very quickly. It's a selection of layers that you draw on in white, and Photoshop applies some filters to turn your white into bushes, water, grass, rocks and so on. I'll show you what I mean...
Here's a quick shot of the blank map in Photoshop. Notice the layers on the side. You can choose, say, the "Water" layer and scribble on it in white and you'll get a river. Here's some more scribbles showing you craters, rocks, sand, road and a bush.
And here are some finished samples...
A3 map of a generic creek.
A3 map of a generic road.
4 x A3 map of a gully entrance for my campaign. (There's more gully, too, but this gives you the gist of it.)
Each of those takes me about five to ten minutes and I'm fortunate enough to have a colour A3 laser printer at work to rattle off the finished results. Unfortunately, the file is very large and requires a pretty spiffing computer to run it.
I was wondering, basically, if anyone wanted a copy (although I need to find somewhere to host the massive great thing). I was also hoping some Photoshop aficionados hereabouts might want to help out. The problem with maps, of course, is that there's always more to add. Right now, the file does great outside maps but only passable inside maps. Outside, after all, is all terrain, but inside needs things like chairs, barrels, sacks, fountains, coffins, sarcophagi, levers, doors, braziers, stone walls, cave walls, wooden walls... You get the idea.
Basically, I suppose, I'm trying to open source it.
- Joel Fagin
