{"id":574,"date":"2010-02-02T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-05-14T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:22:53","slug":"x-marks-the-spot-11-map-making-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/x-marks-the-spot-11-map-making-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"X Marks the Spot: 11 Map Making Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style pro...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg\/300px-Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg\" alt=\"Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style pro...\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>You&#8217;ve spend weeks, months&#8230;maybe even years creating your world. You&#8217;ve detailed new races, have exciting new character classes, have worked out your worlds ecology, history, monetary system etc. Now it&#8217;s time to present it to the players. But wait! There&#8217;s something else you need before you can begin using your world. That&#8217;s right: you need a map!<\/div>\n<div>Below is a list of map making tutorials freely available on the web:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasymapmaker.com\/campaign-cartographer-video-tutorials\/\">Campaign Cartographer Video Tutorials<\/a>: A list of tutorials for using the map making program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profantasy.com\/?affiliate=17305817305\">Campaign Cartographer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/warlockshomebrew.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/campaign-creation-map-making-tutorial.html\">Campaign Creation<\/a>: A three-part map drawing tutorial at the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/warlockshomebrew.blogspot.com\/\">The Warlock&#8217;s Home Brew<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombienirvana.com\/?page_id=67\">Fantasy Cartography<\/a>: From the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombienirvana.com\/\">Zombie Nirvana Games<\/a>. Gives a video tutorial for creating maps in Photoshop.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/melkot.com\/mechanics\/map-guide.html\">Guide to RPG Mapmaking, A<\/a>: Information on creating many kinds of RPG maps from dungeons to countries.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksix.com\/2009\/04\/tutorial-make-your-own-rpg-maps-in-photoshop-fast\/\">Make Your Own RPG Maps in Photoshop Fast!<\/a>: This is actually a tutorial for creating dungeon maps for use with miniatures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vileworks.com\/photoshop-tutorial-old-fantasy-map-of-your-area\">Old Fantasy Map of Your Area<\/a>: This is a Photoshop tutorial that uses Google Maps or Yahoo Maps as a basis for the game map.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.cartographersguild.com\/showthread.php?1150-[Award-Winner]-A-medieval-town-map-tutorial-in-Photoshop\">Medieval town map tutorial in Photoshop<\/a>: Just what the title says. Creates beautiful maps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stargazersworld.com\/2009\/05\/29\/mercator-style-maps-in-photoshop\/\">Mercater-style maps in Photoshop<\/a>:\u00a0 From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stargazersworld.com\/\">Stargazer&#8217;s World<\/a>. Thanks Stargazer for pointing this one out to us!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jezelf.co.uk\/\">Photoshop Map-Making<\/a>:\u00a0 This is a Flash site, so I can&#8217;t give you the exact address of the map-making page. Click &#8220;Tutorials&#8221; &#8212; that&#8217;ll take you to a five-part tutorial on creating some really spiffy looking maps for your world. I&#8217;m currently in the process of using this tutorial to create the maps for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/\">Guang Keshar<\/a>. While you&#8217;re there, take a look at his portfolio too!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.cartographersguild.com\/showthread.php?4276-Quickstart-Guide-to-Fantasy-Mapping\">Quickstart Guide to Fantasy Mapping<\/a>: A wealth of step-by-step tutorials are listed in this forum post, which also includes basic map making information.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.cartographersguild.com\/showthread.php?1142-[Award-Winner]-Using-GIMP-to-Create-an-Artistic-Regional-RPG-Map\">Using GIMP to Create an Artistic Regional Map<\/a>: This tutorial makes use of the free image creation program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a>. 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You&#8217;ve detailed new races, have exciting new character classes, have worked out your worlds ecology, history, monetary system etc. Now it&#8217;s time to present it to the players. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/x-marks-the-spot-11-map-making-tutorials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldbuilding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}