Other World Mapper Forum

I've not really paid any attention to the Partition tool before today, but just realized that it could be a really nice way to draw nations - draw a Landmass-wide Boundary, and then use Partition to split that Boundary into one Boundary per nation. But many borders follow other features - rivers, la...

When drawing with the Add option chosen, the operation the operation fails when the target is "underneath" a boundary. The cursor turns to the "wait" animation and remains that way until the cursor is moved; there is no change to the target object. This only seems fail when the operation starts on a...

7. The New Map button doesn't work consistently - maybe 3 out of every 4 clicks brings up the New Map dialog. That is really odd. Is it just the new map button? Or some of the other toolbar buttons too? The New Map button was the only one that I noticed. I spent some time tonight trying to replicat...

I think I figured out what's going on with the shapes that aren't associated with a landmass. I "staged" these shapes in an other map - one that didn't have any landmasses - and copy/pasted these shapes into my map. Since the original map didn't have any landmasses, I think that the copy/paste resul...

So I haven't been paying much attention to OWM for a while, but I'm starting a new campaign soon so I'm putting it through its paces. Here's some various bugs that I've found: Copy/paste of grouped objects breaks the grouping Editing label text sometimes results in two labels - one with the old text...

An option to auto-select the feature you just placed. I kept expecting the properties pane to affect the last feature I placed. It seems OWM expects you to set up your object properties, then place the object, which seems backwards to me. We originally had it that way. However, consider the case wh...

I was drawing some roads, and went back to edit one, and found that I couldn't select it, and, as far as I could tell, it didn't appear in the layers pane. I was still able to connect other roads to it - at which point the new roads became unselectable as well. I saved and reloaded, and everything w...

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: An option to auto-select the feature you just placed. I kept expecting the properties pane to affect the last feature I placed. It seems OWM expects you...

Are there any plans to build for or test with tablets or digitizers? In my experience, most programs work okay just treating the stylus/touch input as a mouse, and I hope OWM is at least as good as most programs.

What other tools have you used to make maps? What are the pros and cons? Do you hope OWM is a replacement for these tools, or a supplement to them? A couple notable tools I've used: AutoRealm - A pretty great tool for world maps, but had some serious bugs. Has a lot of the tools OWM will have - frac...