Comments | restiva: Old School Dungeon

restiva

Old School Dungeon

Jul 02, 2012 21:21

Been trying out some more mapping in GIMP. This time I made a classic dungeon, following this tutorial. This one was pretty easy, much less fiddly than the last one I tried. I'm actually pretty happy with it, although I couldn't work out how to rotate the curtain image I downloaded, and the colouring isn't perfect. Guessing it's going to take a ( Read more... )

dnd, mapping, 2012

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dr_sponge July 2 2012, 18:57:30 UTC

Nice. Aren't there tools ("apps" I guess they call them now days) for just making such maps? - I always find GIMP so frustrating. When I used to play old-school dungeon crawl games (with the "3d" views that move in blocks, on a grid based map), I would ignore any auto-mapping feature, because half the fun was building up the map with pen and paper (yay for maths books).

restiva July 3 2012, 13:54:19 UTC

Yeah there are. But it's useful making them myself. Partly because this means I can make them for my DnD group the next time we're doing a deathtrap dungeon, and partly because I'm trying to learn how to use GIMP in general. I can wait to be able to make decent icons.

Recently got accepted for a distance GIS Masters actually. Going to be breathing mapping software soon!