[Award Winner] Battlemaps in Photoshop

[Wulfquee]

Howdy, you are most welcome to include it in an easier to use format. I can't speak for wdmartin, but I thought it was a very useful trick so if he has no objections go for it.

just waiting on Wdmartin to replay before i post it

[Wulfquee]

just waiting on Wdmartin to replay before i post it

still no replay from Wdmartin

[madcowchef]

Looks like you got a very serviceable map already, congrats! I think your walls turned out particularly well. Hope it gives you some great ideas for making your own maps for your group.

[madcowchef]

Great choice of textures I especially like what you went with for the water. I use blender for smaller map elements, but rarely for terrain at large. Combining it with the much beloved Wilbur is a fun way to model mountains that I've only rarely messed with, as you say the intuitive interface is not a thing for blender.

[egdcltd]

Great choice of textures I especially like what you went with for the water. I use blender for smaller map elements, but rarely for terrain at large. Combining it with the much beloved Wilbur is a fun way to model mountains that I've only rarely messed with, as you say the intuitive interface is not a thing for blender.

Thanks! I'm pleased with how it turned out. Prior to this, I'd only done two interiors in Dundjinni.

I have seen someone creating battlemaps regularly in Blender, but it isn't the easiest thing to use.

[johnvanvliet]

Great tutorial! I've been trying to learn Blender to make battlemaps

not the best tool
nor even a "ok" tool for that
( yes it can be done , just like MS's Excel spreadsheet CAN be used to DRAW a image using the cells )
there is an Japanese artist that dose that


while blender can edit raster data it is not meant for that

i export uv mapped images and edit those in gimp and reimport them into blender


blender is great for 3d and some 2d'ish like this random generated texture
-- an exception is the node editor for guided RANDOM things

[Aabra69]

Just thought I'd throw this out here. Just finished making this pretty generic road for any number of encounters. Feedback would be appreciated.

[Meshon]

Just thought I'd throw this out here. Just finished making this pretty generic road for any number of encounters. Feedback would be appreciated.

Hi Aabra, that's a fine looking map. You should post it in the Battlemap forum, you'll be more likely to get feedback there I think. One thing I like to see on roads is evidence of travel; wheel ruts, horse prints, that sort of thing.

Cheers,
Meshon

[egdcltd]

One thing I like to see on roads is evidence of travel; wheel ruts, horse prints, that sort of thing.

Cheers,
Meshon

I want to do things like that - I posted in the Help forum - but perhaps you can point me to something, as you've mentioned it.

[Aabra69]

I want to do things like that - I posted in the Help forum - but perhaps you can point me to something, as you've mentioned it.

I would also love to do it. I tried adding some straight lines for wheel tracks.... I then reduced the opacity and used a grunge brush to randomly delete parts of it. I applied an emboss filter with a texture.... it looked.... I mean it wasn't terrible I suppose but the map looked better without it. Any suggestions on how you would create it? BTW I made another Swamp map which I have posted in the Battle Maps forum as you recommended. Hopefully I'll get some good feedback.