Reply With Quote
Welcome to the Guild!
dpmcalister
Hello. My name is Dave McAlister and I run UK Role Players. I was pointed in the direction of this forum by ravells at a very fortuitous time as I'm about to start planning the next campaign I'm going to run and, with that, of course, maps.
My plan is to use Fractal Mapper 8 for the external maps and Dundjinni for the internal maps. My planned campaign is set in the Caribbean during the Age of Piracy so the biggest map will be of the Caribbean itself. For this, I've got a image that I'm going to put into FM8 as a background and then, using the tablet and pen that I'm getting for my birthday at the end of the month, will re-draw it all (the reason for doing this is that the image I've got as too much detail for my liking so I'd like a simplified version).
Aside from simple maps in Dundjinni I have no experience of map making so this will be a learning curve for me
Welcome to the Guild!
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
Welcome to the Guild. Sounds like a fun campaign
I am the breath of Dragons...The Song of Mountains...The Stories of Rivers....The Heart of Cities.... I am A Cartographer....
Finished Maps
Kingdom Of Shendenflar Campaign Setting (WIP)
Everything I post is free for use and redistribution under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence, except where noted otherwise in the thread.
My chance to welcome you to this forum Dave!
We have some FM8 mappers here and a larger number of Dunjinni users who will help you, I'm sure. Although we have a lot of tutorials on this site, I'm not sure if we have any FM8 or Dunjinni tutorials (not sure why that is?), but it's worth doing a search to see what turns up.
The best way is to start a WIP thread and post your map up in stages, you'll get plenty of people giving you constructive advice about your map.
Enjoy your stay at the forum!
Ravs
::edit:: check out this thread, where another member has drawn a Caribbean map.
Last edited by ravells; 03-09-2011 at 07:00 AM.
Welcome Aboard!
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
That map is excellent.. I can only hope that mine turns out to be as niceOriginally Posted by ravells
I'll certainly start a thread and post the various WIP versions.
Thanks for all the welcomes
Welcome to the Guild!
Gidde's just zis girl, you know?
My finished maps | My deviantART gallery
My tutorials: Textured forests in GIMP, Hand-Drawn Mapping for the Artistically Challenged
You might find this FM8 tutorial guide helpful.
Link Here.
welcome to the guild Dave
regs tilt
:: My DnD page Encounter Depot free stuff for your game :: My work page Catapult ::
:: Finished Maps :: Competion maps - The Island of Dr. Rorshach ::
:: FREE Tiles - Compasses :: Other Taking a commision - Copyright & Creative Commons ::
Works under CC licence unless mentioned otherwise
Hi Dave, Just remembered that in the guilds cooperative world the CWBP there are a set of tropical islands too. These maps are CC licensed so you should be able to nick these for your campaign. You can see a link in my sig to all the places in the CWBP and this is Map17.
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...-Outer-Islands
These maps were made by me with a script and if you want to just make the height maps for your islands (quite easy) then I can script run the full colour map from them and save you all the effort.
Posting Permissions
