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    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    PaladinGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2010

    Default Looking for a Dungeon Mapper

    Ok first off sorry for asking so many questions, I already asked this one too.. I'm posting a new topic because I think to post in the old one would qualify as thread necromancy and whatnot.

    Ok, so here we go. I've been creating a couple maps in http://www.wizards.com/dnd/mapper/launcher.htm this thing, and editing pretty heavily. Now I want to re-map to include the changes I've made. Doing it by hand seems pretty impossible due to scale and my absolutely terrible penmanship.

    I've been looking for mappers online, but all that I've found have been incredibly tile based.. It's too fancy and not nearly practical enough. I essentially want them to look like the black and whites of these do. Thicker lines for walls, little door indicators, non-intrusive grid. Does anyone know if a program that does this sort of thing exists? Or will I need to do it by hand in the end after all? I know it's possible to just get grid paper on paint and apply thicker lines, but even my internet cartography is terrible and I'd really rather the map not look bad (even if it does look unbelievably plain).

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    Orc in the Playground
     
    HalfOrcPirate

    Join Date
    Nov 2009
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    Marburg, Germany
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    Default Re: Looking for a Dungeon Mapper

    If you just want to draw/redraw the map, I'd suggest AutoREALM. It's pretty versatile, based on vector graphics, can use a wide variety of grids (or none at all), has a lot of nice pre-generated map icons (plus a pretty easy way to create your own) and comes with some other nice utilities (like AutoNAME, which can generate semi-random names based on a scriptable set of rules).
    However, it has some small bugs (most of them are merely annoying, but you should still save early and save often...).

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    Pixie in the Playground
     
    NinjaGuy

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    Apr 2007
    Location
    St. Louis, MO
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    Default Re: Looking for a Dungeon Mapper

    Did anyone point you at Dungeonographer previously?
    Remember: On the Internet, no one knows how old you are. Until you hit "Send".

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    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    PaladinGuy

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    Nov 2010

    Default Re: Looking for a Dungeon Mapper

    Quote Originally Posted by shuyung View Post
    Did anyone point you at Dungeonographer previously?
    Nope, you are the first.

    Also I am using it currently, it fits my needs pretty much exactly. Thanks man ^^

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    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    NinjaGuy

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    Aug 2009
    Location
    New Brunswick, Canada
    Gender
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    Default Re: Looking for a Dungeon Mapper

    Gozzy's Cartographic Emporium is awesome. Makes it randomly given parameters you choose from pull down boxes.
    Last edited by Crossblade; 2011-02-20 at 11:01 PM.

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