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Hi Juggernaut...do you mean something like this? Not sure I can help you with gimp procedures but the lines are made by using the 'halftone' filter in photoshop or just a tiling line fill set to the appropriate blend mode.
Computer Screen Maps
Hey all,
I am dabbling with creating some 'computer screen' maps. Think those nice bright green maps used in Sci-Fi or similar styles.
Has someone created a tutorial to do that sort of thing? At the moment I'm looking to basically update these quickly-thrown together jobs I've done as part of a game project.
All help or pointers are greatly appreciated. I'm going to be working with GIMP mostly, since Inkscape is still a very foreign entity to me.
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Hi Juggernaut...do you mean something like this? Not sure I can help you with gimp procedures but the lines are made by using the 'halftone' filter in photoshop or just a tiling line fill set to the appropriate blend mode.
I tried to do something like that in my New York challenge map, if you want to take a look.
The ideas I came up with to make things look like digital readouts were
--to overlay a square grid shrunk down reeeeeally small in order to give the impression of pixels wherever there were fields of color
--apply a soft 'outer glow' effect to just about everything on the 'screen'
--Wireframes (with variable width to imply depth) with an 'outer glow.' I would probably do something similar with the environment's contour lines--easy to do since those look like real-world maps, so getting contour line maps would probably be a piece of cake.
--emulate the UIs that we might have seen in super cheesy, late eighties to mid-nineties sci-fi/hacker films (anything from Tron to Johnny Mnemonic.)
I already have them as outlines. It's just getting the look right... I will also need to colour it... so I'm guessing we should be going for C64 Double-Dragon Colouring?
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Here'e one I made a while back that might give you some gimpy inspiration!
-Rob A>
My tutorials: Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map ~ All My Tutorials
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Um... Where?
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Doh!Originally Posted by Juggernaut1981
Um... Where?
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...-fi-Map-Screen
-Rob A>
My GIMP Scripts: Rotating Brush ~ Gradient from Image ~ Mosaic Tile Helper ~ Random Density Map ~ Subterranean Map Prettier ~ Tapered Stroke Path ~ Random Rotate Floating Layer ~ Batch Image to Pattern ~ Better Seamless Tiles ~ Tile Shuffle ~ Scale Pattern ~ Grid of Guides ~ Fractalize path ~ Label Points
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