r/RPGdesign • u/jiaxingseng Designer - Rational Magic • Sep 27 '19

Resource Need help for map software (and would like to update wiki with it)

  1. So I need to make some small scale (ie. a tavern, a city street, and medium sized base) maps to include in a published commercial product, and I would like to use free software tool with tiles to do this. Anyone have links on a good tool?

  2. I also would like to update the resource page in the wiki with the results from here.

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u/jiaxingseng Sep 27 '19 edited Sep 28 '19

I'll put down what I have:

Great. Download as SVG to customize. open source and free for commercial. I feel it's good enough to use in commercial fantasy products if you can't spend $200 for a map artist.

Never used it. Overland maps.

This can do smaller scale maps with tiles. Don't know how good. Question about if can work with commercial products.

Looks good for large scale maps. Looks like it could be of high enough quality to use in commercial projects.

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https://www.mipui.net/

Simple maps no furniture. Maybe good for layout of buildings.

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u/Mises2Peaces Sep 27 '19

Holy crap that first link O_o

You just made my day. Export to SVG means I can programattically rearrange/color anything I want using javascript. Game changer.

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u/dreamisle Oct 02 '19

Hey there, Dave from Dave’s Mapper here. Some of the contributors have given me specific licenses which are listed on their artist pages, but most have not provided one. I have contact info for most of the artists and can help reach out for specific requests by folks doing commercial projects, but the original ambitions were just to share art for folks to use personally for fun so I didn’t start collecting licensing info until later in the project.

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u/sjbrown Sep 27 '19

World Engine is cool, it simulates plate tectonics to come up with a world map. (I'm a bit biased because I'm a contributor)

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u/JaskoGomad Sep 27 '19

Check out https://www.project-deios.com/ and their city generator video.

It's from the dungeonfog folks