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

[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

[Steel General]

That anyone gets anything done at in EXCEL at all is a miracle in itself. I absolutely HATE that program.
For me it's more of an abomination than MS-Paint

So kudos to you for creating something useful with it.

[MadCartographer]

Originally Posted by torstan View Post
.fcw? Is that a file format?

Yes it is for CC2 (not sure about 3)

Yea is both CC2 & CC3.

[Gorgul]

Thanks for this great tutorial, even if it brings painful memories from the ruins of Undermountain...

[MadCartographer]

Here is me trying my hand at your Tut. Using CC3.

I hope you like it. BTW, thanks for the tut, well done!

[Geleg]

Thanks very much for this useful tutorial. It's helping me render my hand-drawn beauties into, well, better-drawn beauties!

Still, I do have a question. I'm using the current version of GIMP (2.6.11), which seems to have some differences to it. I'm stuck at the point of trying to add doors to my map. I've got a third layer ('doors'), I've got your 'doors2.png' saved to the clipboard, and am able to paste it to the center of the canvas, but I am unable to move the darned thing. This is undoubtedly my own incompetence, as I have very little familiarity with any of these computer-generated art programs. But it's a bit frustrating. I've clicked the 'rectangle select tool' from the toolbox, and when I hover over the door image that appears in the center of the map, I get an anchor and a small square with 'marching ants' (as you called it), but no move arrows. If I click it just inserts in the center of the canvas.

I'd appreciate any help from you pros!

thanks,

Geleg

edit: I read Sheelon666's posts on the previous page and they mirrored my problems. His fix of zooming in has helped me finally grab ahold of the door icon and move it. I may have solved my own problem. Thanks anyway!

[death_jester]

This thread is all kinds of awesome! Thank you very much for taking the time to post it for us newbies.

Peace
Jester