- Basic "drawing" tools: landmass, water body, river, road, region and more!
- Different pen styles for each "drawing tool," including random fractal segments, line segments, curve segments and Bézier curves, and free hand pen. Random segments can be regenerated real-time with hotkey.
"Fractal Pen mimics patterns found in nature"
- Customizable settings for each map element include textures and backgrounds, outlines, shadows and more. All with independent and overall opacity settings. All rasterize real-time as they are changed.
"Properties for a map object. (i.e. Landmass)"
- Automatic generation of shorelines for landmasses, lakes, and rivers. Shorelines have different style options, such as spread and color, and can be changed, enabled or disabled, at any time.
"Auto generated shoreline types for land"
"Shorelines from different landmasses interact automatically."
"Lake and river shorelines"
- River tool has smart connection to other rivers and landmasses (Can be toggled ON or OFF)
"Automated tool to make rivers and lakes merge seemlesly"
- Automatic integration between rivers and water bodies, so that rivers "merge visually" into lakes, but remain as separate layers.
"Automated tool to make rivers and lakes merge seemlesly"
- Region tool can follow existing elements (landmasses, water bodies, other regions, etc.) to indicate natural borders (Can be toggled ON or OFF)
"Region tool can follow existing map objects"
- Label tool for placement of map text. Customizable font, color and outline color, style and alignment, as well as rotation angle.
- Feature tool for adding map symbols (castles, mountains, etc). Edit options for map symbols: scaling, rotation and opacity settings, as well as ink color (You will be able to import your own Map Features. (See Art Importing Tool below).
- Canvas options: fill canvas with a color, a texture and/or image, each with independent opacity controls! The canvas can be set to your own image of a map and then traced with Other World Mapper's tools.
- Move, Scale and Rotate tools may be used on all map objects.
Link to Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zxIzfVkJk
- The ability to modify shapes from control points, for all the map item types.
- Copy properties from one item, and paste to another. Set the tool properties based on an item's properties.
- Default themes that set the default properties for all tools, allowing creation of maps in a particular style quickly.
- The ability to save and share your own default settings as your own map theme.
- Square and Hex grid with options for line style, thickness, color and opacity, as well as vertical and horizontal spacing, and optional snapping.
"The map from our video with grid enabled (grid opacity at 32%)"
- Distance tool and the option to set the map scale.
- Anti-aliasing for objects and effects, blending of objects with "smooth" edges.
- Option to have a circle or ellipse represent the edge of a flat map (instead of rectangular edge).
- Art importing tool to make it easy for you to bring your own artwork into Other World Mapper.
- Multiple document interface. You can have multiple maps opened as separate tabs and copy/paste items between them.
- Exporting of maps to various image formats (jpg, png, bmp, etc) and PDF, and the option to upscale exported map.
- Exporting of “raw” vector data to SVG format (i.e. landmasses, regions, etc. without rasterization), and the ability to export pixel coordinate data for map features (i.e. xml file). This should be particularly helpful for game developers.
- Printing/Plotting of high resolution maps.
- Separate layers for each map object and layers window to hide/show and swap z-order of individual map items, or entire map item category (i.e. change the z-order of all regions).
- Stretch Goals As Listed and Unlocked on Kickstarter
- Stretch Goals As Suggested and Liked/Commented on by Three Minds Software*
- Continental Drift Tool - Using a region tool to define a cutaway section from a larger landmass with drag and move options to simulated continental drift.
- Canyon Tool Setting - Either a tool setting for the river and lake tool or a unique tool to implement simple canyon features on a map.
Casey