New & Different Map by Sebby

[LeapingShark]

(This thread is not to be confused with kildaere007's pdf vector map currently being discussed in this thread)

Yet another poster named Sebby has just finished an excellent new and different map of Khorvaire using the blank map downloadable from wiz.com.

This newer effort is exactly the kind of map we all expected to see in Dungeon magazine. Since it uses the wiz.com download as a base, it's done in the same art style as the book maps.

Newer map of Khorvaire (3.5 mb)



Take a look, I'm predicting that this version will soon become the definitive map for most Eberron campaigns.

 

[haiiro]

This newer effort is exactly the kind of map we all expected to see in Dungeon magazine.

Yep, it is. This is an awesome map.

 

[RogueRonin]

How would I print this in a size that I can read? Would I have to go to a Kinko's or something? The biggest I can print it at home is still way to small.

 

[Henry]

How would I print this in a size that I can read? Would I have to go to a Kinko's or something? The biggest I can print it at home is still way to small.

If you have MIcrosoft's Paint Program that comes with Windows XP, there is a Page setup option called "fit to X by Y pages" - this map defaults to 5 by 3 pages (in other words 15 8.5" x 11" pages worth of map), but you can change it yourself to fit whatever size you wish, and it will print out in multiple pages. I have no idea if the Windows 98 version has this feature.

I use CorelDRAW myself, so it's got a multipage feature that's easy to work with - possibly JASC's Paint SHop Pro demo has a multipage feature you could take advantage of?

 

[Obfuscated]

I always cheated and inserted over-sized pics or maps into an Excel spreadsheet and printed it out that way.

You can print it as big as you like and you will know how many pages it spans before you try to print it.

-Obfuscated

 

[D+1]

Take a look, I'm predicting that this version will soon become the definitive map for most Eberron campaigns.

Has a few distinct advantages over Kildaere's. First, it's in the same style as the official maps. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with putting it in a different style, but the original style DOES impart some degree of flavor that then gets lost or at least altered. Also, any future maps are certain to use that same style and it is better to maintain a consistent map style.

Second, it's NOT a pdf and thus is inherently more manipulable by everyone else to their own purposes.
Edit: I see that's been taken care of now. Nevermind.

Lastly, since it seems to have been assembled from the map sections provided by WotC and possibly scaled scans from the book it's less likely to have errors which Kildaere seems to have. I could be wrong on that one though. I had considered assembling a map myself just as a personal exercise by simply scanning from the book, then scaling and assembling in Paintshop Pro.

 

[Blastin]

Wow...this thing is wonderful. Hat off to sebby for this and slap to forhead to WOTC for NOT doing it...
So, anyone know if I can take this to kinko's or Staples to get it printed poster sized without them saying "we can't do anything copyrighted like that."?
I'm printing it out as someone suggested above, but I would love to have something that looked like a good poster map. And Sebby did too darn good of a job on this to not have it printed out as a postermap
Blastin

 

[Shadowdancer]

Makes good wallpaper, although you can't read the location names.

 

[Staffan]

If you have MIcrosoft's Paint Program that comes with Windows XP, there is a Page setup option called "fit to X by Y pages" - this map defaults to 5 by 3 pages (in other words 15 8.5" x 11" pages worth of map), but you can change it yourself to fit whatever size you wish, and it will print out in multiple pages. I have no idea if the Windows 98 version has this feature.

Hmm. When I plugged mine into Paint, it wanted to make it 3x3 pages. Though those were proper A4 pages instead of that silly Letter thing you have going on the other side of the pond, plus I used really small margins (10 mm - not sure the printer can actually handle that), but it shouldn't make *that* much of a difference.

OK, just checked how it looked with the default margins: either 5 x 2 pages portrait style, or 4x3 pages landscape - but the right-most pages on that only had a narrow strip of stuff. Reducing the left/right margin to 11 mm instead of 19.1 (the default - probably 3/4 inch just converted to real units) meant it fit on 3x3 pages instead.

 

[Henry]

Hmm. When I plugged mine into Paint, it wanted to make it 3x3 pages. Though those were proper A4 pages instead of that silly Letter thing you have going on the other side of the pond...

Yeah, yeah, you just keep on usin' those weird units over there, I'll stick to my sensible 0.000134 x 0.000174 mile pages.

I'm just glad Microsoft actually made paint useful after all these years - it was a hard press to find anything it could do other than work with BMP's on a most basic level.