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[Ibid Straydrink]

Hello there, everyone.

I am in the market (without much of a budget, albeit) for a fantasy map generator AND editor. You might have heard of the pen & paper roleplaying game "Dawn of Worlds." Basically, players take turns acting as gods or "fates" and expend points to collaborate or conflict in the creation and development of a fantasy world- much akin to DF's worldgen, but that being the game itself. I'd like to host a session on these forums, but I am finding that drawing and making editions to a map on MS Paint rather crude and tedious, and I don't know where else to look.

What I need is a low budget editor whose files could be shared and altered by others players. On the other hand, a neat tileset or two that I could cut images from and allow players to paste on the sloppy MS Paint atlas would be a good thing as well.


Referrals greatly appreciated!

- Ibid

[IronyOwl]

I suspect emailing/uploading+downloading the files would be more of a pain that just using paint. I know there's numerous free photoshop-ish clones (GIMP comes to mind) that might be marginally better than paint (multiple layers, and such).

In terms of something custom-built for this purpose, I'm afraid I can't help. I suppose Battle for Wesnoth (free TBS) has hex terrain and sprites you might find useful, assuming they're the right size.

[Virex]

I suspect emailing/uploading+downloading the files would be more of a pain that just using paint.

Use Subversion or Dropbox perhaps?

[ed boy]

You can use google documents or a similar thing to create a spreadsheet, with each cell corresponding to a map tile in the game. Edit the permissions so people can edit the spreadsheet, have a code for what the cells represent, and you're set.

[TolyK]

dropbox is broken now. waiting until they fix it. 
plus it rapes my internet. but not others'. odd.

for that I recommend GIMP and sending files through conference "calls" in skype. works like a charm.

[Dippimunch]

Try AutoREALM, totally made for tabletop roleplaying cartography. Pretty powerful, and with a little practice can achieve some good looking stuff 

http://autorealm.sourceforge.net/

[Ibid Straydrink]

Try AutoREALM, totally made for tabletop roleplaying cartography. Pretty powerful, and with a little practice can achieve some good looking stuff 

http://autorealm.sourceforge.net/

Wow... this is amazingly detailed, but it gave me a seizure when I first opened it.

I think this might be above my learning curve, and a little too advanced for a multiplayer browser game of the uninitiated strangers... but I'll see if I can work this out.

Hey, this is neat!!

Thanks!


A question, however: Is there a way that you know of to alter the height and width of the maps/number of grid units, rather than just changing their size? I can't seem to find anything on it...

[Dippimunch]

Unfortunately, I have yet to master the program. I revealed to you the hill in the distance, but not the path to reach it.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Unfortunately, I have yet to master the program. I revealed to you the hill in the distance, but not the path to reach it.

Much appreciated.

[Argembarger]

I think this might be above my learning curve

It doesn't even matter that you struck that statement through.

You posted it on a dwarf fortress forum.


Oh AUTORealm. How I wish I had more time to learn your mysteries...

[quinnr]

Pretty awesome program there.
Thanks for the link!