Can my "RPGplaneMapMaker" photoshop action set be in the list?
Can my "RPGplaneMapMaker" photoshop action set be in the list?
Vue 8 frontier for free
Hi,
3d world magazine issue 139 has vue 8 frontier for free at its dvd. Vue is a powerful landscape editor/generator (like Bryce but has more features). More on vue at http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products...ue_8_frontier/.
Has anyone here looked at a terran generator called World Machine? It looks intriguing but I haven't tried it and am not sure whether it would be useful for what we do here. Plus it looks very shiny and sparkly and distracting.www.world-machine.com
Yeah, lots of us have played around with it but I think there's only one or two guys who are actually proficient with it. It's not intuitive and uses things called nodes, which basically act as a function that happens to the terrain like raise it or lower it, erode it or erode it more, etc. It looks like a flow chart that you'd find in an office somewhere so it's kind of hard to get used to. But if you do get the hang of it, it does some pretty cool stuff.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
If you do get used to a node-based workflow, though, you'll wish everything worked that way. What wouldn't I give to have a node-based image editor? I tend to do photo retouches in my film compositing software now rather than Photoshop.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
http://www.bryanray.name
Here are some more.
Leveller
http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller/
Great program for serious application or just fooling around
ImageSynth2
http://www.luxology.com/imageSynth/
Excellent for creating seamless textures from ANY image
MicroDem
http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pgu...m/microdem.htm
Free - useful for opening DEM (Digital Elevation) files
Texture Maker
http://www.texturemaker.com/news.php
Flaming Pear
http://www.flamingpear.com/products.html
Photoshop plugins. India ink and Lunar cell are pretty cool
The heavy weights ...
Global Mapper
http://www.globalmapper.com/
The Daddy ...
VNS3
http://3dnature.com/vns3.html
Excellent! good for ecosystems - massive learning curve but worth it
CityEngine
http://www.procedural.com/
Pain to use ... has some cool features such as importing OSM (Open Street Map) data
Many thanks to everyone contributing to the thread, I now have a weeks worth of programs to try out!
Ok, I'm also new here but am amazed to see nobody has mentioned Tiled.
The blurb SaysA list of games created using Tiled can be found HERE and include Platformers, RPGs (both Orthogonal & Isometric perspectives) & Shoot-em-ups.Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor, built to be flexible and easy to use. In addition to its own map format, Tiled supports read/write plugins for using it with proprietary map formats or formats used by other editors.
Dungeon Painter Online
http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online
Free online mapping software.
Plenty of textures and objects,
layers and groups,
export to images and PDF,
map hosting,
hex and square grid,
simple file format, etc.
Does anyone know an alternative to the "Its Full Of Stars" program?
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