Dissolve style maps. [Serif Drawplus]

[ravells]

I've been doodling with Drawplus, which is a low end vector graphics package, came up with this - I'm aiming for that 'dotted' style of drawing which is quite easily achieved by using the dissolve filter. I am sure you can replicate this using any reasonable vector or raster drawing applications.

How I did it:

1. Create the rooms using rectangles and circles and combine them into a single shape (make sure that the fill colour is the same colour as the background and the line colour is black and as thin as you can get it).
2. Feather the shape by 1 pixel (this gets rid of the line)
3. Use an outer glow filter and set colour of the glow to black and the blend to dissolve. You can also use an inner glow depending on how much you want to break up the straight line shape.
4. Play with the opacity, blur and intensity settings until you are happy with the result.

Ravs