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<blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 6493124" data-attributes="member: 1457">I gave HexMapper a try. It's what I was looking for. Each hex of a map is a single surface (grass, woods, sand, swamp, etc.) and a single terrain (flat, hilly, mountainy, etc.). But you can select any hex and decompose it into hexes. In other words, turn the hex into a bunch of smaller hexes. The program even has an &quot;interpolate&quot; option which takes the surrounding hexes into account, resulting in a somewhat organic blending of the base hex (say, &quot;flat woods&quot;) with it's neighbor (say, &quot;hilly scrub&quot;). So when broken down, the majority of the hex will be flat woods but as it nears the border to the &quot;hilly scrub&quot; hex those will fade to &quot;hilly scrub&quot;. It also handles elevation. The program documentation says that it can provide a pan and zoomable 3D view but I haven't gotten that to work. It's clunky and you don't have fine control over the zoom level: each hex breaks down into 49 sub-hexes, each 1/7th the size of the parent hex. So it's not the same 1 hex breaks into 10 hexes of the DMG's continent =&gt; kingdom scale, or the 1 hex into 6 hexes of the kingdom =&gt; province scale. But it's still pretty cool.HexMapper runs in java so it's got some limitations. I would have loved to see smooth scrolling at any zoom level; right now when you zoom you can only edit that single hex; if you've got a river that you want to extend to an adjacent hex you have to zoom out, select that adjacent hex, then zoom in to continue the river.But again: this tool is simple, zoomable, with just enough options (and not too many). It'll suffice. Though I do want to give a videogame editor a shot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zaruthustran, post: 6493124, member: 1457"] I gave HexMapper a try. It's what I was looking for. Each hex of a map is a single surface (grass, woods, sand, swamp, etc.) and a single terrain (flat, hilly, mountainy, etc.). But you can select any hex and decompose it into hexes. In other words, turn the hex into a bunch of smaller hexes. The program even has an "interpolate" option which takes the surrounding hexes into account, resulting in a somewhat organic blending of the base hex (say, "flat woods") with it's neighbor (say, "hilly scrub"). So when broken down, the majority of the hex will be flat woods but as it nears the border to the "hilly scrub" hex those will fade to "hilly scrub". It also handles elevation. The program documentation says that it can provide a pan and zoomable 3D view but I haven't gotten that to work. It's clunky and you don't have fine control over the zoom level: each hex breaks down into 49 sub-hexes, each 1/7th the size of the parent hex. So it's not the same 1 hex breaks into 10 hexes of the DMG's continent => kingdom scale, or the 1 hex into 6 hexes of the kingdom => province scale. But it's still pretty cool. HexMapper runs in java so it's got some limitations. I would have loved to see smooth scrolling at any zoom level; right now when you zoom you can only edit that single hex; if you've got a river that you want to extend to an adjacent hex you have to zoom out, select that adjacent hex, then zoom in to continue the river. But again: this tool is simple, zoomable, with just enough options (and not too many). It'll suffice. Though I do want to give a videogame editor a shot. [/QUOTE]

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