How To Make A Fantasy World Map In Gimp

You may have to do a few attempts but it is a good first step.

How to make a fantasy world map in gimp. Let me know if you have feedback or how to improve my maps. Fill the land with black and the water white. Draw your coastline and islands. Select a solid paintbrush of 2 3 pixel size and select black as the foreground color.

Terran as found source. I wrote this one to point out a difficulty i had in my d d campaign. Creating fantasy maps with gimp. Playing online requires digital maps so i taught myself using gimp.

They ll probably get you something workable a lot quicker. If by chance you are willing to accept or work with a randomly created cavern map then following these simple steps will create a finished map in minutes. In this video i show you everything i know about making a unique tabletop gaming map. Come join me live on tuesdays and thursdays at 7pm est.

All that is left is for you to add a text layer and placement of cities and roads etc. For this map creation exercise you ll need some textured pictures of sand or rock. Choose the paintbrush tool and fill in the selection with the colour of the text you choose. Holding the whole world in your.

Or if you re looking for a world map wonderdraft or inkarnate all of those are a lot simpler albeit more restricted and less artistically open than using a graphics program to simply draw a map and nothing stops you exporting the result and touching it up with a graphics app after the fact. Gimp has a fast create button for making a world map or at least a portion of a world map. This one is shows how i created the adventure map by drawing on paper scanning processing then assembling it all in gimp. Back on the layers tab select the main text layer of your map.

It creates land with contours and water with color and shading. Creating intricate fantasy maps is a time consuming operation if you have a specific layout you are looking to replicate. Updated on october 4 2019. Pictures of bricks or granite blocks.

I ve been drawing maps for d d since first playing the game in 78. Let the software do all the work for you. Click path to sele c tion. Different textures create different results.

Click white as your foreground color and click on the paint bucket and fill the page with white. On the paths tab right click on the path created for the text. Beach sand pictures are great and easy to come by.