We’ve just released the October issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2012. It contains a huge amount of gorgeous bitmap artwork which focuses on alien starships and landscapes. It was created by Storyweaver (Joseph Sweeney’s rpg company) in conjunction with their High Space setting.


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The February issue of the Annual 2012 elaborates on a style introduced in Cosmographer 3: The satellite view overland map. This large-scale, straight overhead style evokes the view a satellite might have on the landscape below. Seamlessly-tiling textures are smoothed together through sheet effects to create the image of an unbroken, natural ( Read more... )

Head over to the rpgmaps blog to see some old-school hex maps I've created for the Cartographer's Annual and Cosmographer.

My current work on Cosmogapher 3 yielded this desktop wallpaper ... the map might look familiar to some people, although no names or labels are show.

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I wish I could how off the other map created in this style, but for the moment this will have to do:

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As posted earlier we're creating a starmap of Sol's astronimical neighborhood for Cosmo 3. It's done now, with functionality to show stars based on distance to Sol, spectral class and likelihood of habitable planets.

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This is a small example of an outdoor sci-fi battlemap done with Cosmo 3, integrating lights and sheet effects.

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No Sci-Fi mapping package is complete without a way to map planetary surfaces. With the new bitmap styles we are aiming for satellite imagery with digital overlays. Here is a quick example.

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