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September 9th, 2006, 06:54 AM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
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That software costs more than the Dominions3 game. Anyone know of some free mapmaking software ?
Yes I already have GIMP.
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This one is free:
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September 9th, 2006, 07:12 AM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
Nice looking map. Nice tool I must say. Too bad about price.
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September 9th, 2006, 11:24 AM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
I still think that if I dig thru my old OLD games that I can find one that does really nice random map generation and a full-screen view that I can capture.
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September 10th, 2006, 06:04 AM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
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I still think that if I dig thru my old OLD games that I can find one that does really nice random map generation and a full-screen view that I can capture.
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Hm....yes but which game? I cannot think of any in-game mapmaker what would be good to make Dominions 3. maps...well maybe the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 mapmaker. It is 2d based. 2 screenshots:
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September 10th, 2006, 02:53 PM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
That wouldnt be bad. Screen capture it, remove all pure white (255,255,255), add province lines and one pure white dot to each province, save it in a format that Dom3 can "see", use the dom3 map editor to add terrain values and set who is neighbor of who...
It would offer some very interesting icons to expand on. Edit that province to match why there is a tower or treasure or monster there. That would be way cool.
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September 10th, 2006, 04:38 PM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
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That wouldnt be bad. Screen capture it, remove all pure white (255,255,255), add province lines and one pure white dot to each province, save it in a format that Dom3 can "see", use the dom3 map editor to add terrain values and set who is neighbor of who...
It would offer some very interesting icons to expand on. Edit that province to match why there is a tower or treasure or monster there. That would be way cool.
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Yeap, actually this map editor might be very good to make maps. Hm....my elder brother bought HoMM 3. & Armageddon's Blade expansion long time ago. Hopefully he can find the game somewhere in his house.
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September 10th, 2006, 09:41 PM
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Re: Excellent software for mapmakers
What about the CivIV map editor? you could only do terrain probably, but it can make very cool looking worlds, and you can zoom out far enough to take a screenshot that might look ok. Not too sure though, since I haven't played Civ in quite a while.
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