Just brought the Beta - I have Some Questions and perhaps Ideas.
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 10:16 pm
Greetings
Just bought the beta as I spent about a month looking through various map making software and after everything was said and done this seemed the best fit for what i wanted to do (create maps for books i am writing from 20 year old maps.)
First up - Love the program - have tried cc3, hexographer(awesome old school style maps for rpg'ers), inkarnate pretty nifty if small scale rpg map maker)(spelling?), Adobe (need a fucking month to learn it) and every other program I could find or download for making a map. of all of them, yours has been the one I have been able to run with from the start without too steep a learning curve.
Now I am running the Beta 6 version - I have some questions from my playing around with the program (some features I ask about may be there but I have not figured them out yet)
Do you have an overlay or "Lay trace" ability similar to military military maps where you could overlay a clear "layer" on which you can draw military symbols to show army positioning and similar.
Following on from this do you have any intent to include standard nato symbols as part of your package (fairly sure they are not copyrighted as every country uses them) I would like to use these for showing fantasy army manoeuvres and the like.
Do you have plans to include more symbols like the old school standard rpg or D and D type map symbols similar to the programs listed above - The ones you have provided thus far are all awesome but I would still like a simple marker that looks like a city (eg solid black and so on for fort, camp monster den, nest etc (also need to be able to differentiate between "fort" symbols and "city" symbol, disregarding adobe I know the other two programs listed carry all the generic symbols for fantasy style maps (unsure on what the copyright deal is here id you need to make your own variation or not)
Are there any plans for an eraser feature (without have to cntrl z or edit undo where it removes everything to the base layer?
Lastly Im having probably a self inflicted idiot problem - I am using a hand drawn map for a background so I can trace it - however - after following the instruction on http://www.otherworldmapper.com/forum/v ... t=144#p760 I end up with the image i want on the map - but it is stuck to the top left corner and wont let me resize it onto the canvas to fit - is there something obvious (im guessing yes) I am missing to get it to cover the entire background?
That is about it - thanks for the awesome program so far and any tips on how to fix the background image thing appreciated.
Cheers
BF
Just bought the beta as I spent about a month looking through various map making software and after everything was said and done this seemed the best fit for what i wanted to do (create maps for books i am writing from 20 year old maps.)
First up - Love the program - have tried cc3, hexographer(awesome old school style maps for rpg'ers), inkarnate pretty nifty if small scale rpg map maker)(spelling?), Adobe (need a fucking month to learn it) and every other program I could find or download for making a map. of all of them, yours has been the one I have been able to run with from the start without too steep a learning curve.
Now I am running the Beta 6 version - I have some questions from my playing around with the program (some features I ask about may be there but I have not figured them out yet)
Do you have an overlay or "Lay trace" ability similar to military military maps where you could overlay a clear "layer" on which you can draw military symbols to show army positioning and similar.
Following on from this do you have any intent to include standard nato symbols as part of your package (fairly sure they are not copyrighted as every country uses them) I would like to use these for showing fantasy army manoeuvres and the like.
Do you have plans to include more symbols like the old school standard rpg or D and D type map symbols similar to the programs listed above - The ones you have provided thus far are all awesome but I would still like a simple marker that looks like a city (eg solid black and so on for fort, camp monster den, nest etc (also need to be able to differentiate between "fort" symbols and "city" symbol, disregarding adobe I know the other two programs listed carry all the generic symbols for fantasy style maps (unsure on what the copyright deal is here id you need to make your own variation or not)
Are there any plans for an eraser feature (without have to cntrl z or edit undo where it removes everything to the base layer?
Lastly Im having probably a self inflicted idiot problem - I am using a hand drawn map for a background so I can trace it - however - after following the instruction on http://www.otherworldmapper.com/forum/v ... t=144#p760 I end up with the image i want on the map - but it is stuck to the top left corner and wont let me resize it onto the canvas to fit - is there something obvious (im guessing yes) I am missing to get it to cover the entire background?
That is about it - thanks for the awesome program so far and any tips on how to fix the background image thing appreciated.
Cheers
BF