Other World Mapper Forum

Looking at a world map today, I had an idea. I realized that my maps don't have nearly enough islands and island chains compared to the Earth. Would it be possible to include an "archipelago generator" in OWM? You would select its borders like a landmass or would draw a path and it would fill the a...

When I was writing this yesterday, I wasn't actually at my girlfriend's Windows computer so I wasn't able to use other world mapper. I check now, and it turns out you can select objects with other tools so I guess what I'm really asking is do you really need a separate move and scale tool. You conv...

stefanstr wrote: For a basic drawing of ocean currents

We talked about several changes, so I wanted to make sure you didn't miss my previous reply. What do you think? That's something we could probably fit into the schedule.

Thanks!

- Alejandro

Alejandro, Frankly I was surprised there wasn't an NDA at the start of Alpha but I came into it with the notion that Alpha software isn't generally talked about in public and since you had created locked forums for the Alpha and Beta testers I assumed you would want to keep the comments on the foru...

unklStewy wrote: Namespaces

Just "tagging" you since I split the topic. This is a very interesting idea we need to look into and it needs its own topic so it doesn't get lost under generic UI feedback

Additional comments/ideas are welcome!

- Alejandro

And, after practicing some more, I don't even think anything needs to change with manually closing the shape. If anything, some visual indicator that I'm on-target would be nice - IE the dot turns red - but I consider that to be pretty low-priority. Very good point. We will add color changing/highl...

Just started toying with OWM, and a few things jump out at me. Most of these are pretty minor though, in general OWM is working pretty well for me: That's great to hear for an Alpha version! And makes the team very happy :) An option to auto-select the feature you just placed. I kept expecting the ...

stefanstr wrote: Maybe W and S? Anybody who plays games will get that it kind of is "up" and "down".

W and S will be!
(now I want to play Unreal Tournament...but it's probably a bad idea considering it's almost 3AM....)

- Alejandro

1) Wouldn't it make sense to merge Select, Move and Scale into one tool? It keeps confusing me that I cannot complete the other operations without switching tools. Maybe there is a good reason to have three tools and I’m not smart enough to see it? We put a lot of thought/planning onto that during ...

- depending on the scroll wheel is a big no-no for folks working on a touchpad (maybe less common on Windows but commonplace on the Mac - and you are going to have a Mac version) - it would be nice if you also added some keyboard shortcuts that do the same thing. Something simple that can be operat...