[Award Winner ] Creating an old-school map in Gimp.

[Sheelon666]

NP will send the file in a minute. Work has continued for a bit:- I am definitely getting the impression now that the tute is NOT for total nubs in this arena. If you want you could treat my...bloopers as additions for the tutorial:

Latest is as follows:- the grab handle for the door grapic is actually pretty small, and I found that it was much easier to do the door placement when zoomed WAY in to the screen. Also when anchoring the doors using the anchor icon, to what am I anchoring them? It appears I have to have the Doors layer directly below the floating layer icon, whereupon the door will be anchored to same. Is this similar to the merge layers command? I appear to have accidentally added some doors to my Walls Layer earlier.

Email to follow with the graphic for the map but one other point: in the bottom left just above the single room, there is a spot where an internal wall could be placed, however after accidentally placing the internal wall in the Doors layer, I cannot seem to delete all traces of the wall which was placed there. For the moment I am leaving that spot blank.

[Sheelon666]

At last - nothing fancy but enough that I can narrate the journey through the dusty corridors, and expand and run encounters when the party gets to the appropraite parts of the map! Thanks for the Tutorial Torstan - I hope to continue my own journey into Gimp and hopefully fingers crossed I'll get better as I go along. It really is a matter of being constantly aware of Layer in which I am working, and where I'm placing stuff at the time.

[Sheelon666]

Also did this one using Excel with a little messing about with Autoshapes.

[jfrazierjr]

Also did this one using Excel with a little messing about with Autoshapes.

Dude. thats just sick. Nice, but sick...lol

[Sheelon666]

LOL I'm not sure if that's a thumbs up or a thumbs down! Thanks...I think!!

LOL

[stormiestl]

I never thought of using Excel for a drawing program. I have no idea why I never thought of it because I use it all the time for other things. That is me not thinking outside the box!

Stormie

[nixxrite]

Just found this and wanted to say great guide, I've got an adventure coming up where I have 6 random encounters but no maps so this has just made my life a hell of a lot easier!