Dynamic Map Generator

[Naryt]

I found this City Map Generator this morning. Yes, yes, it's not handcrafting a work of wonder using the latest tools but it does a marvelous job of producing a very usable map in a matter of seconds. Hats off to Drachenzahn (Dragon-tooth) for creating such a great little tool.

[ravells]

Wow! The cities look really organic and convincing...especially the big ones when viewed at a distance. Great find!

Ravs

[Naryt]

Wow! The cities look really organic and convincing...especially the big ones when viewed at a distance. Great find!

Ravs

My only beef with it is that it doesn't appear to export to any image formats.

[Naryt]

Just a quick note on this, the program has been updated and now allows image exporting to BMP.

[pyrandon]

Thanks, Naryt: great find.

[Airith]

Just a quick question, is there any way to get the 'print colors' to show up when you generate the map? Instead of just lines and boxes?

[Torq]

I dont think you can view the printable output in the program itself, but I installed a pdf printer and it works fine. You print to a pdf file so you can see exactly what the output will be before committing to paper.

Torq

[Aval Penworth]

I noticed that until yesterday no one had explored this thread for a while, but I was intrigued.

Had a go at three different size cities with this random city generator today. Using only colour select and the drop shadow, bevel and add noise filters/ layer styles in photoshop got some pretty good results in just a few minutes. It's pretty cool that you can make a failry big city in the same amout of time as a village. I spent less than an hour to create all three maps.

Clearly, as it's random, some roads and rivers would need to be doctored. And some extra attenion on building distribution wouldn't go astray. But that shouldn't take too long.

This is probably old news to manyof you veterans, but a great discovery for me and others new to the forum.
This little program is a gem in my opinion. If you haven't had a look at it yet, why not give it a try.

[Elothan]

Nice job on these
I think i like the secon one best, but It does seem to have quite a bit of stray roads (roads that have no apparent function or reason to be there) Perhaps you Could add in some farms or something to give them a reason to be there ?