Intro + Sizeable Add-on for OWM
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 2:25 am
Greetings from Northern Bavaria!
This is my first appearance here ... so, a quick introduction.
I'm the head of a 3-man RPG team called The Vintyri™ Project. Before anyone thinks I'm out to grab your money, let me assure you that we're a non-profit organization. We sell nothing. We do no kickstarters. We neither solicit nor accept donations. Our products are free on an open gaming, open source basis and are licensed for personal and commercial use.
The focal point of the Vintyri Project is the RPG gaming material that we produce, specifically the Dungeons Daring™ fantasy role-playing game and the Jörðgarð™ campaign setting. These products are off the cartographic track, so that's as many words as I'll lose over them here. If anyone wants to know more, go to https://www.vintyri.org.
These products require a lot of maps. We have more than 500 already, which are available free online. When we began this mapping, we had to conclude that many of the mapping objects we needed in the bitmap quality that we needed were not available anywhere. As a result, we created our own Vintyri Cartographic Collection with about 1,500 features (symbols, objects) and textures (fills). We then acquired license rights that allow us to distribute more than 20,000 bitmap cartographic objects produced by others, all free and for personal and commercial use.
We subsequently released four add-ons in versions for Fractal Mapper 8™, Campaign Cartographer 3+™ and Dundjinni™. That brings me to the reason why we bought an expansion license for OWM and why I'm popping up here. My colleagues, Carl Nielsen and Trevor Cooke, and I are quite impressed with the basic mapping system of OWM although we do see some things that we consider to be serious shortcomings. In the next time to come, I'll discuss those in these forums.
Meanwhile, we are looking seriously at making and releasing OWM versions of all four of our free add-ons. Our decision will depend on whether Three Minds makes some improvements in OWM to make our products work better in the program and what kind of response we get from OWM users in terms of feedback and download statistics. One does, of course, need something to download and something to which one can give feedback before that can be realized.
Therefore, we have released a first alpha version of the Vintyri Cartograhic Collection for OWM. The attached graphic is a very quick and dirty (i.e. cartographically unprofessional) example of what one can do with it.
There is a PDF installation and usage guide. I strongly urge you to download and use it during the installation of the add-on. It will help you get a problem-free installation and it also will show you what tools are in the package and how to get at them in OWM.
The Guide is available here:
https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/vintyri_owm_guide.pdf (2.6 MB)
The add-on is available here:
https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/vcc_owm_alpha1.zip (490 MB)
Download it, unzip it and run Setup.exe. Install it into:
(Install drive and location)\Three Minds Software\Other World Mapper
If you used the default installation location, that's:
C:\Programs (x86)\Three Minds Software\Other World Mapper
This products all are released on a free, open gaming, open source products for personal and commercial usage.
NOTE: The building made with the text tag building tool was made with the OWM building tool, using a Vintyri roof texture. It's quite compatible with the basic Vintyri style. We also used frills from the Vintyri feature catalog Building Parts to customize it.
Servus,
Mark Oliva
The Vintyri Project
https://www.vintyri.org
mailto:info@vintyri.org
This is my first appearance here ... so, a quick introduction.
I'm the head of a 3-man RPG team called The Vintyri™ Project. Before anyone thinks I'm out to grab your money, let me assure you that we're a non-profit organization. We sell nothing. We do no kickstarters. We neither solicit nor accept donations. Our products are free on an open gaming, open source basis and are licensed for personal and commercial use.
The focal point of the Vintyri Project is the RPG gaming material that we produce, specifically the Dungeons Daring™ fantasy role-playing game and the Jörðgarð™ campaign setting. These products are off the cartographic track, so that's as many words as I'll lose over them here. If anyone wants to know more, go to https://www.vintyri.org.
These products require a lot of maps. We have more than 500 already, which are available free online. When we began this mapping, we had to conclude that many of the mapping objects we needed in the bitmap quality that we needed were not available anywhere. As a result, we created our own Vintyri Cartographic Collection with about 1,500 features (symbols, objects) and textures (fills). We then acquired license rights that allow us to distribute more than 20,000 bitmap cartographic objects produced by others, all free and for personal and commercial use.
We subsequently released four add-ons in versions for Fractal Mapper 8™, Campaign Cartographer 3+™ and Dundjinni™. That brings me to the reason why we bought an expansion license for OWM and why I'm popping up here. My colleagues, Carl Nielsen and Trevor Cooke, and I are quite impressed with the basic mapping system of OWM although we do see some things that we consider to be serious shortcomings. In the next time to come, I'll discuss those in these forums.
Meanwhile, we are looking seriously at making and releasing OWM versions of all four of our free add-ons. Our decision will depend on whether Three Minds makes some improvements in OWM to make our products work better in the program and what kind of response we get from OWM users in terms of feedback and download statistics. One does, of course, need something to download and something to which one can give feedback before that can be realized.
Therefore, we have released a first alpha version of the Vintyri Cartograhic Collection for OWM. The attached graphic is a very quick and dirty (i.e. cartographically unprofessional) example of what one can do with it.
There is a PDF installation and usage guide. I strongly urge you to download and use it during the installation of the add-on. It will help you get a problem-free installation and it also will show you what tools are in the package and how to get at them in OWM.
The Guide is available here:
https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/vintyri_owm_guide.pdf (2.6 MB)
The add-on is available here:
https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/vcc_owm_alpha1.zip (490 MB)
Download it, unzip it and run Setup.exe. Install it into:
(Install drive and location)\Three Minds Software\Other World Mapper
If you used the default installation location, that's:
C:\Programs (x86)\Three Minds Software\Other World Mapper
This products all are released on a free, open gaming, open source products for personal and commercial usage.
NOTE: The building made with the text tag building tool was made with the OWM building tool, using a Vintyri roof texture. It's quite compatible with the basic Vintyri style. We also used frills from the Vintyri feature catalog Building Parts to customize it.
Servus,
Mark Oliva
The Vintyri Project
https://www.vintyri.org
mailto:info@vintyri.org