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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5569417" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>I'm a senior member of the <a href="http://www.cartographersguild.com" target="_blank">Cartographers Guild</a>. Although Profantasy City Designer is a decent program for making cities, Profantasy software, being CAD is a pain in the ass, unless you're familiar with using it - there is a couple city designer tutorials at the CG however. And that random city generator is nice for creating realistic city layouts, but you have no control at using it.</p><p></p><p>Most of us mappers at the CG, rely on non-mapping specific graphics applications like Photoshop and GIMP or Illustrator and Inkscape to create our maps whether for a city or any kind of map. There are literally hundreds of tutorials at the CG for creating various kinds of maps using those kinds of applications.</p><p></p><p>Because those above mentioned apps are general graphics applications it means you have to design the city yourself without any software help, just use the software to create the buildings, roads, etc that you need for you map.</p><p></p><p>It could be helpful to use the random city generator to get some ideas on road layout, city walls and locations of specific things like parks, etc. Then go to GIMP/Photoshop or whatever your application of choice to emulate the generated city, but place buildings more specifically to where you want to place them.</p><p></p><p>This is how most of us 'pros' making city maps.</p><p></p><p>Here's a hand-drawn city map of Tsue-jo for my second and third adventure Curse of the Golden Spear for Kaidan. I finished the map with color and beveled shapes using Xara Xtreme, my preferred application of chioice...</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaidan/tsue-jo-thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Link to larger version of this map... <strong><a href="http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaidan/tsue-jo.jpg" target="_blank">Tsue-jo castletown</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p>GP</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 5569417, member: 50895"] I'm a senior member of the [URL="http://www.cartographersguild.com"]Cartographers Guild[/URL]. Although Profantasy City Designer is a decent program for making cities, Profantasy software, being CAD is a pain in the ass, unless you're familiar with using it - there is a couple city designer tutorials at the CG however. And that random city generator is nice for creating realistic city layouts, but you have no control at using it. Most of us mappers at the CG, rely on non-mapping specific graphics applications like Photoshop and GIMP or Illustrator and Inkscape to create our maps whether for a city or any kind of map. There are literally hundreds of tutorials at the CG for creating various kinds of maps using those kinds of applications. Because those above mentioned apps are general graphics applications it means you have to design the city yourself without any software help, just use the software to create the buildings, roads, etc that you need for you map. It could be helpful to use the random city generator to get some ideas on road layout, city walls and locations of specific things like parks, etc. Then go to GIMP/Photoshop or whatever your application of choice to emulate the generated city, but place buildings more specifically to where you want to place them. This is how most of us 'pros' making city maps. Here's a hand-drawn city map of Tsue-jo for my second and third adventure Curse of the Golden Spear for Kaidan. I finished the map with color and beveled shapes using Xara Xtreme, my preferred application of chioice... [IMG]http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaidan/tsue-jo-thumb.jpg[/IMG] Link to larger version of this map... [B][URL="http://www.gamer-printshop.com/kaidan/tsue-jo.jpg"]Tsue-jo castletown[/URL][/B]. GP [/QUOTE]
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