Mapping Elements, Starting with Preset Tables and Chairs

[heruca]

Great crates, Bogie.

Thanks for all the great stuff you post here.

[Bogie]

Thanks Heruca! My way to give back to the community.

Here is another new one, a chest with leather straps.

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[westford111]

this is great stuff. I'm just starting out with mapmaking. I'm toying with Inkarnate which is pretty good for world map's but very limited as far as dungeons. I need to use a different tool. I have a Mac so I'm somewhat limited. I was interested to read that your nice work was done primarily with Dundjinni (which can be used on Mac), but then you also said you need photoshop to do it. I figure I'll start with Dundjinni to get the hang of it, but what do you have to do with Photoshop once you created the base dungeon/map with Dundjinni? Thanks again. Nice Work. D

[heruca]

I'm toying with Inkarnate which is pretty good for world map's but very limited as far as dungeons. I need to use a different tool. I have a Mac so I'm somewhat limited.

See my sig.

As for Dundjinni, I don't think the DJ store is working 100%. Getting DJ running on a modern Mac is doable, but not without jumping through a few hoops. I only managed it with help (Bogie's, IIRC).

[Bogie]

I create these mapping elements 100% in Photoshop and then put them into DundJinni. I can make a map 100% with DundJinni, but I often use Photoshop to clean up little errors or to add lighting and shading effects.

I love using DundJinni, but as Heruca said it is an old software that works best on Windows 7 and older computers. I don't know anything about Macs, but I believe the same is true, it is hard to install it on the newer versions. The DundJinni forums website is working again but the store is wonky and it may be difficult to get your hands on a copy of it.

Check out Heruca's MapForge mapping software. It is still in the late stages of development but a working version is available.
MAPFORGE

[XCali]

Hi Bogie!

I just wanted to say thank you. I did a project a while back and needed to find Sarcophagi! I ended finding one of your resources and used it as base and inspiration for this one. It is hard to find top down Sarcophagi. On top of it I added one of my own hand drawn elements to give it flair, and then added quit a load of cast and core shadows and filters to blend them better. And I added a book.

This is here for you and anybody interested.

Thanks again,
Omri

[Bogie]

Very cool XCali, looks great.

[Bogie]

Back when I first started this Thread I used to post new mapping elements every Friday night. I have not done that for a long time but I just made some new ones and it is Friday Night so here they are. Don't you love Traditions?

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[Gidde]

How DO you come up with all these?! They are awesome as always. If I ever run a game again this resource will be invaluable.

[Bogie]

Thanks Gidde. It is mostly photographing objects I come across. Now that cellphones have great cameras I am always ready when I see things in gift stores, antique stores, museums, even hobby stores. Then I photoshop the crap out of them and turn them into Bogie's Elements.