Greenfish Relief Map Generator
Someone on the Dungeonforge forum posted about this little program:
http://greenfish.extra.hu/downloads.php
It has a incredibly simple interface:
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And with one click on the [?] button you get a new map, complete with random names pulled from a flat text file.
Here are some examples (I had to convert them from bitmaps, 'cause that is all it saves in):
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rm2.jpg
rm3.jpg
rm4.jpg
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Pretty amazing program. Nice sensibilities behind the basic map structure.
I'm glad I never saw this when I was just getting into mapping. I might not have pursued it so earnestly.
Sigurd
Nice little program! I can see myself using it to create a base for my handdrawn maps. Thanks for posting this
I was thinking the same, Siguard. This is a lovely little program - the coastlines look really credible. Not sure I like the colours on the land, though.
with the colours set to a greyscale it produces a handy image. can anyone figure out how to turn off the grid??
Can it output the height map because you could get your own gradient remap in there and make your own color scheme for the land if you dont like the one it gives you.
I like the Hungarian town names! I thought it was Turkish at first...
I actually kind of like the altitude gradient. It's fairly clear and unobtrusive. I may add its distinctiveness to my collective of gradients.
As a heightfield generator it seems weak. There's a fairly bad orthoganal banding artifact(squares). Even against the paltry selection of terrain generation software on the mac it's not all that great. If your on a PC anyway, there are oodles of greatly superior HF generators. Many of them free.
Still, those town names...
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the link given is dead
version 1.4 will remove the grid lines using 0 as the grid size
i have a file of English town names
Greenfish Software Blog: Greenfish Relief Map Generator 1.4
Version history:
1.4
Added feature: higher map size limit (5000x5000)
Added feature: typing 0 as grid size hides the grid
Added feature: further style settings, e.g. automatic caption
1.3
Added feature: saving random seeds in a combined listbox
1.2
Added feature: now one can select a text file as a database of possible town names
1.1
Optimized: Speeded up map generation
Added feature: loading/saving presets
Added feature: editing style (colors, etc.)
1.0
First release
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