Using Photoshop CS3+ To Generate Random Maps

[lch]

Re-inventing the wheel, take #122. :P No, don't take this as criticism. It's just that an alternative way to generate random maps for Dom3 tends to show up somewhere and boils for some time, until it grows stale and another attempt takes its place at a later time. Unfortunately there's no concerted effort to get somewhere. Although this tutorial doesn't contain any new concepts (generate perlin noise / heightfield, colorize) it's good that you're giving explicit instructions how to achieve the effect.

[Gandalf Parker]

Thanks for the instructions. I sincerely hope other people follow up on it and create some new maps that people like.

These are some images I created with the random generation scripts in GIMP (which is free). I never bothered to make anything with them but maybe someone else will be interested.
http://www.dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/projects/GIMP/

Also, people might consider some tools such as posterizing, or sepia, which can give an image an old parchment map appearance which some people find very appealing.

Gandalf Parker
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