May 22, 2015, 10:14 PM
@2mspris said:
@HelloRaptor said:
And while it's intended to use for a MU
whistles innocently
chooses to disbelieve
Yes, this is your fault. I hope you're pleased with yourself! <j/k... mostly.>
Map Maker, Map Maker, make me a map...
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If it's for a MUSH, just make it look sorta like a flow-chart, with boxes and lines.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@Sponge said:
To be clear, your asking about creating new geography, not mapping an existing place (MU), yeah?
The intention is to remap existing geography in-so-far as it's a change up to a real world map. And while it's intended to use for a MU, I'm trying to make an image that will be used on a wiki as the world map to give a rough idea of how what is familiar has been changed & what there is to work with now.
Thank you for the feedback, everyone really.
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http://gobmush.wikidot.com/grid-map
I wish I had a pretty one that looked like a proper map, but this works very well for people. Even in the cases when the line goes like, north-by-northwest and it says N on the grid and shit.
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@il-volpe said:
If it's for a MUSH, just make it look sorta like a flow-chart, with boxes and lines.
I've previously done the inverse: written a bot that can log into a game, map out all the rooms and exits, then spit out a graphviz file which gives you the boxes and lines. It's a pain to get graphviz to produce sensible output for complex graphs like a MUSH grid though
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@HelloRaptor said:
And while it's intended to use for a MU
whistles innocently
chooses to disbelieve
Yes, this is your fault. I hope you're pleased with yourself! <j/k... mostly.>
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@2mspris said:
@HelloRaptor said:
And while it's intended to use for a MU
whistles innocently
chooses to disbelieve
Yes, this is your fault. I hope you're pleased with yourself! <j/k... mostly.>
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@HelloRaptor Sure! Long as they don't have to map it!
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You don't have to map SPACE, at least. I think. Do you? ...is something wrong with SPACE? I didn't think to look up and out. Oh god. >_>
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I'm sure it's just fine! Nothing to see there!
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This won't help you @2mspris, not for making a map of the US/World --
But I found this while looking for a tool to make dungeon / building maps for a d20 game.
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Would it work for you to take screenshots of Google Maps, using the Terrain display mode, then use a paint program to draw boundaries, city dots and names, etc?
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CC3Pro is, as noted, an amazing application. It's also ridiculous, inasmuch as it's a professional drafting tool with a bunch of map stencils and functionality glued atop it. The learning curve is more of a learning cliff. If you happen to have access to a Mac OS X box, Ortelius is a bit like CC3Pro, except actually usable: http://www.mapdiva.com/ortelius/
Alternatively, Roll20 has a great list of map-making resources: https://wiki.roll20.net/Useful_links_for_mapping
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Wanted to toss a quick thank you to everyone who sent suggestions to me on this. I was able to get the maps made that I needed between google earth and some map images that I was able to edit to fit what I was needing. I appreciate the input!