04-08-2012, 04:31 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: UK
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Software for making hex maps
Can anyone suggest some (preferably free) software for creating maps on a hex grid - something relatively easy to use and that can export to a standard picture format as I don't have a printer at home?
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04-08-2012, 05:05 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Re: Software for making hex maps
Autorealm (Wiki-Link) is free and relatively easy to use map tool. It allows export in among others jpg or bmp format. You could also use a tool like PDFCreator (Wiki-Link) to "print" the map in even more formats. Autorealm won't get you results as nice as the expensive and difficult-to-use Campaign Cartographer, but for informative maps with vector symbols and hex grids it's more than good enough.
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04-08-2012, 05:26 AM | #3 |
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Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Software for making hex maps
GIMP (www.gimp.org) is an open source image editor, similar to Photoshop. It supports every image format and can create a hex or square grid at any size you like.
Hexographer (www.hexographer.com) and Dungeongrapher (www.dungeongrapher.com) are both free Java apps that create hex maps (terrain and dungeon, respectively). They save to PNG only, but GIMP can convert from PNG to just about any other format. Finally, PDFforge (http://www.pdfforge.org/download) is an opensource PDF printer, so you can "print" anything to a PDF format. |
04-08-2012, 06:56 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Software for making hex maps
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04-08-2012, 07:52 AM | #6 |
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Re: Software for making hex maps
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll check them out - looks like a number of choices...
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04-08-2012, 06:36 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Software for making hex maps
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The learning curve on raster graphics is a lot easier, and GIMP has some really great scripts available for it in the repository for RPG mappers. Top of the list I would recommend is Dungeon Map Maker, for obvious reasons :) You have to find some nice textures yourself, but there are good repositories of them available online for free.
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04-08-2012, 06:43 PM | #8 | |
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Re: Software for making hex maps
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04-08-2012, 07:23 PM | #9 |
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Re: Software for making hex maps
In inkscape an easier method would be to create an svg hex grid from http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ and import that as a layer into your image.
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04-08-2012, 09:55 PM | #10 |
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