Map creator software

[FeelTheRads]

I'm trying to find again some map creator software that I saw some time ago but can't fucking remember what it was.

It was definitely not Campaign Cartographer or Dundjinni, but similar with lots of premade assets.

The thing I remember from when I visited their site was that they had an update that introduced png support as it was previously vector only. Or was it the other way around? Fuck.. dunno.

Anything?

Edit: NVM, I'm retarded. It was CC.

 

[Elim]

Maptool with...how was that damn thing called...i think it was CSUAC or something like that. A giant torrent with many different objects for creating maps.
Or PyMapper?
Or this thing?
http://www.mapeditor.org/

I use Photoshop for my maps. You can get simple and good looking maps with pretty low effort.

Edit: NvM, i'm retarded, too.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Hmm, eventually I settled for Dungeon Painter which is really easy, but MapTool with that CSUAC collection sounds very interesting. Or maybe I can use those graphics with Dungeon Painter.
Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Ulminati]

I usually use either photoshop (if I have an afternoon free) or maptool from rptools.net. For maptool, I acquired a bunch of high-resolution PDF scans of the dungeon tiles WOTC made. I cleaned them up, made sure they were all scaled appropriately and organized them into folders for floor/walls/doors/furniture/etc. With snap to grid active, this allows me to slap together a passable dungeon in half an hour or so. The most time-consuming part is setting up the line-of-sight walls. Although making the tiles in the first place was a full weekend of tedious routine. The best part of this approach is that once I've set things up to my liking, I just need to place the player tokens on the map and everything is ready to go.

If you have free time and a little photoshop savvy, you could do worse than checking out one of my favourite forums to lurk -- www.cartographersguild.com

They have tons if gorgeous high-resolution maps of god damn near anything, as well as several nice tutorials on techniques you can use for making your own.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I found a lot of graphics (can do myself what I don't find, I guess) and together with Photoshop it's working great. Seems like I'm too pretentious for the existing mapping programs.

Now, there this great hexgrid generator here: http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/
But do you know of anything similar that can do square grids? With coordinates and preferably in vector format? Too lazy to do that myself...

 

[Horus]

If you have free time and a little photoshop savvy, you could do worse than checking out one of my favourite forums to lurk -- www.cartographersguild.com

They have tons if gorgeous high-resolution maps of god damn near anything, as well as several nice tutorials on techniques you can use for making your own.

You deserve thousand brofists for this link.

 

[ds]

Came across this collection of map graphics for different styles that might be useful to someone: https://kmalexander.com/free-stuff/fantasy-map-brushes/

 

[Nathaniel3W]

You found the program you were looking for, but since no one has mentioned this yet, I will: You should try Inkarnate.