Map Crafter

[GameMaker04]

Map crafter is a tool that lets you paint a terrain and stamp icon objects onto it. Then you have the choice of saving top down images or 2d and 3d versions of that map. You can also walk around it in 3d, or Spit out an exported model. It is being designed for pen and paper RPG groups, but could have many uses.

It will also let you play a game with your friends over the net. Initially this will be moving gamepeices and havig a chatroom so that you may control the story as you would face to face. But will eventually grow into a PnP MMO game.

it will be available soon at
Economic Software Solution
Http://www.economicsoftsol.com

 

[GameMaker04]

Map Crafter is now available for purchase from our website.
http://www.economicsoftsol.com/

 

[msd]

Map Crafter is now available for purchase from our website.
http://www.economicsoftsol.com/

No trial version available?

 

[GameMaker04]

Not yet. there will be soon.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Sweet looking. Be interesting to see how it will handle dungeons.

 

[shadowlight]

Is it just me or does the scale look kind of silly? Are the islands tiny or are the tower and tower and trees huge?

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Not just you, it looks very 'video gamey', not very mapish.

The Auld Grump

 

[Hand of Evil]

Is it just me or does the scale look kind of silly? Are the islands tiny or are the tower and tower and trees huge?

Scale would be a concern but then it is with so many other mappers too. I think the screen shot is showing capabilities: water, coast, land, foothills, mountains more than user maps. Could be wrong. Also, looks as if you can rotate 3d view of your map, video game'ish.

 

[msd]

Scale would be a concern but then it is with so many other mappers too. I think the screen shot is showing capabilities: water, coast, land, foothills, mountains more than user maps. Could be wrong. Also, looks as if you can rotate 3d view of your map, video game'ish.

Yeah, but the scale seems *way* off in this instance...trees are as tall as mountains it appears...ouch.

Also, the graphics really look (in the one screenshot we have been give...maybe an unfair rush to judgment) like they fall apart at the edges of surfaces. Look at where the forest meets the plains and where the land mass meets the water...that kind of blocky, pixellated (for lack of a better word here) look is kinda strange in this day and age.

All IMHO. YMMV.

BTW, this is kinda why I posed my original question as to whether there is a trial version...

 

[GameMaker04]

Let me address the scale.

Objects can be scaled when placed in the 2d editor.. you can make them larger or smaller. I made the test maps myself, and intentionally made them larger so that they would stand out as landmarks. its just my personall gfx perference. You can make them smaller, or the mountains larger.

And the coastlines.

The coastline edges are dithered. If you were to take a snapshot from up and above the scene .. typical shot it would not look pixalated. However in the next uipdate ill add a smooth option on export that will blend those together.. the terrain is not smoothed so that distant shots will appear crisp.

a few more screenshots made by a user with a different style than my own
http://www.togamario.com/images/Screenshot0.bmp
http://www.togamario.com/images/Screenshot1.bmp
and some submissions from another user

http://www.economicsoftsol.com/mcnews0.jpg
http://www.economicsoftsol.com/mcnews5.jpg
http://www.economicsoftsol.com/mcnews2.jpg?

at the moment Map Crafter is overworld only. Dungeons should be in the next update.. they will be handled with a new set of textures to paint the ground with, and dungeon model peices you can snap together to form your custom dungeon, and misc models to match the theme