Making your Fantasy Map in QGIS

[morne]

This is great! I love seeing more GIS tools in fantasy mapping. Once I started using them, there was no going back. I use ArcGIS Pro and the Maplex labelling engine is amazing.

Some things I could see being added to this tutorial are creating a custom GCS for non-earth sized worlds and custom projections.

[pakpak]

This is great! I love seeing more GIS tools in fantasy mapping. Once I started using them, there was no going back. I use ArcGIS Pro and the Maplex labelling engine is amazing.

Some things I could see being added to this tutorial are creating a custom GCS for non-earth sized worlds and custom projections.

I've been struggling with this big! I'm lucky because my planet is the same size as earth. But I've been trying to figure out how to make a custom CRS that's larger or smaller than earth. ArcGIS custom projections may be easier to do it with-- I remember that you can set the extent so maybe if you hack it up you can say its like 50,000 miles. If you have any ideas I would love to hear them.


And omg yea! ArcMap's labelling image is leagues beyond QGIS. The lack of maneuverability with the QGIS labelling is honestly making me consider labelling features in paint.net. You're lucky to be using ArcGIS haha. I was able to use it from my work computer but I don't have that anymroe so now it's QGIS, which is many ways is nice but its not the same.