How To Make A Fantasy World Map On Computer
You can download the map or we can print a wall sized version for you.
How to make a fantasy world map on computer. Exclude small islands to begin with. Select a solid paintbrush of 2 3 pixel size and select black as the foreground color. Draw a rough sketch of your map. Make sure to make the borders of the landmasses are jagged like coastlines not smooth and curvy unless you have a very good in your world reason for doing this not just because you re lazy.
As your game continues you can easily get updated maps to show new areas or discoveries. Azgaar s fantasy map generator and editor. I wanted to make maps that look like something you d find at the back of one of the. Think of one that s fitting.
It helps to use a computer because it is easier to edit than on paper. Zoom in to see the map in details. Even though i treat the map as a product of its fantasy world. Fill the land with black and the water white.
Draw your coastline and islands. A map meant to fit in a hardcover book and subsequently a paperback can t be as detailed as a real world map and still be legible. Target the map layer then select all and copy switch to your channels tab add a new channel by clicking on the create new channel button. These are some notes on how i generate the maps for my twitter bot unchartedatlas which is based on a generator i originally produced during nanogenmo 2015.
You may also be interested in this companion piece which describes the placename generation. You could use real words like bliss yellow or frost or you could make one up. Now paste the layer content onto the new channel and hit command i to invert photoshop uses white pixels as selective areas. If you re stuck think of the attributes of your world.
Click white as your foreground color and click on the paint bucket and fill the page with white. Finally think of a name for your world. сlick the arrow button for options. There s javascript code for the generator on github here and the original messy python generator code can be seen here.
No other tools or artistic skills required. For example if your culture believes that the gods. Whatever the reason is when describing this mythical world you will need a map to show the world you have created.