Map Editors for Mac

**King Tius** · 2010-03-24, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)

Hey all, I'm DMing on a Macbook Pro and am looking to spice up my battle maps. I have a grid system in Numbers (Excel) that works well but I see some people posting really detailed maps and I want in! I've downloaded Inkscape but am having a little trouble getting used to it. Is there some perfectly awesome program I'm missing out on?

**Emmerask** · 2010-03-24, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)

Well you could always install windows on your mac

Anyway my dislike for apple aside ^^

rptools is a java tool so if you are using an osx version that supports java 1.6 (ie osx 10.4 or higher) then that would be a possibility

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**Kaulesh** · 2010-03-24, 09:03 PM (ISO 8601)

Despite being advertised as Windows only, Gametable works just fine on Linux/Mac. You've got to run it from the command line and increase the cache, though.

I would recommend Emmerask's solution, though. It looks much better visually.

**Swordgleam** · 2010-03-24, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)

The GIMP is a great all-around image editor. I've used it to create some pretty spiffy maps.

**King Tius** · 2010-03-24, 11:13 PM (ISO 8601)

I'm dual-booting XP so if need be I can do a Windows-based program but I was hoping there was something available for Mac.

**arguskos** · 2010-03-24, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by King Tius

I'm dual-booting XP so if need be I can do a Windows-based program but I was hoping there was something available for Mac.

I've used the Map Tools of RPTools some. It's alright, actually.

**Lord Vukodlak** · 2010-03-25, 12:19 AM (ISO 8601)

For simple battlemaps or dungeons I just use the drawing program from appleworks 6.0 its ancient but it still works and does grids just fine.

**Draz74** · 2010-03-25, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by King Tius

Is there some perfectly awesome program I'm missing out on?

Yes. MapTool from RPTools.net. It's absolutely incredible, and a good fraction of the developers are die-hard Mac users.

The one problem with it is that it's hard to use it only for mapmaking instead of letting it take over and improve every aspect of your game.

Well, actually from your point of view there might be a bigger problem -- the current version of the program can't actually export any maps that you make to be used outside of MapTool. If you make it in MapTool, you use it in MapTool (or take screen captures to paste into GIMP). They're talking about eventually fixing this in future MapTool versions, though.

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