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<![CDATA[Cartographers' Guild - Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping]]> http://www.cartographersguild.com/ Forum for maps designed specifically for use as battlemaps, map tiles or for use in any Virtual Tabletop (VTT) software. en Fri, 24 May 2013 07:07:07 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.cartographersguild.com/images/cartographer/misc/rss.png <![CDATA[Cartographers' Guild - Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping]]> http://www.cartographersguild.com/ A new directión http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23146&goto=newpost Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:50:40 GMT Well i registered yesterday to this forum and i post some of my battlemaps in another thread, i was looking a lot of works of members and i reallize... Well i registered yesterday to this forum and i post some of my battlemaps in another thread, i was looking a lot of works of members and i reallize that im very far of a good map, so i make this map using more custom tools.

I made the building in Dundjinni and the background in photoshop whit textures of cgtextures.

I want to upgrade my skills so i will appreciate any kind of comments

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping AmarilloQL http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23146 My battlemaps of my Role master games http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23139&goto=newpost Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:12:29 GMT Hi Everyone, im new here and I decided my first post of some battlemaps that i use in my role plays. i hope you like. Attachment 53872... Hi Everyone, im new here and I decided my first post of some battlemaps that i use in my role plays. i hope you like.

My battlemaps of my Role master games-asalto5.jpg

My battlemaps of my Role master games-map21x12.jpg

a battle in the "verdeoscuro" forest

My battlemaps of my Role master games-llegadaalrefugio.jpg

My battlemaps of my Role master games-refugioandguetorr.jpg

The same location but inside in the druid cottage on the tree

My battlemaps of my Role master games-map43x28.png

Another point of the "verdeoscuro" forest

My battlemaps of my Role master games-map50x30.png

The hamlet of "Konard"

My battlemaps of my Role master games-urma.jpg

A point of the "Lagar" town near the "verdeoscuro" forest on the province of Manor

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mapacampamento.jpg

A charcter campsite on the day before entering a forest full of undead

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mapamund.jpg

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mapamundipolitico.jpg

political map
This is the campaign world that i did and i use to my rpg games. I did it in high school, when used to have a lot of free time and not much sense of how is the real world...

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mapademanor.jpg

The province of Malor more datailed but not finished yet.

My battlemaps of my Role master games-lagarchico.jpg

The town of Lagar

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mapakonardrebe.jpg

A map gived to players in a role play session of the north of Paskagard. Its a distance relation map of the "Gnomish magic academy" whit the capital city of "Reber" and the "Konard" Hamlet

My battlemaps of my Role master games-tableroposadamonedaalai.png

The "moneda al aire" Inn in Lagar

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mapadeprueba2.jpg

The characters refuge when they are on vacations of adventures haha

My battlemaps of my Role master games-mazmorra16.jpg

Corridors of the "Gnomish magic academy" on Paskagard

My battlemaps of my Role master games-ciudadgrande.png

A very large metropolis that i didnt use in my world yet

My battlemaps of my Role master games-map53x18.png

A bridge from "verdeoscuro" forest to the town of Lagar on the serpent hills.

My battlemaps of my Role master games-map119x30.jpg

The temple of the yuan ti builded for the lizardmen in secret in the "verdeoscuro" forest to make blood rituals to Merrshaulk

The software that i used to create these maps are: the online dungeon maker pyromancers.com, city map generator, Photoshop, Campaign cartographer 3 and Dundjinni.

Hope you enjoy, you can use the maps if you like in your rpg games. Sorry for the bad english.

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping AmarilloQL http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23139 Infinite Staircase map http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23136&goto=newpost Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:51:20 GMT I'm preparing to run the Planescape adventure Tales from the Infinite Staircase. Most maps I've made were direct recreations of published 2e TSR maps and I assume I can't post any. But the Stairway of Desolation map was originally done in a 3d perspective. So I get to post my top down version of it. :)

I kept them fairly simple in detail since they are such big maps and I'm short on time anyway. I use them with Maptool and prefer to set lighting within the program. So these don't include the graphics I used for light sources.

These maps are huge and I included the high res versions (10800x10800!!!) in a zip file along with a png of a "cavern" roof that can be placed over the "cave" section of this map. These high res versions are created for a 100x100 pixel grid but can be scaled down to 50% for a 50x50 pixel grid.

I don't know how useful an Infinite Staircase map would be to the public. But here ya go....

http://www.rpglocker.com/DnD/Infinite_Staircase.zip

Infinite Staircase map-infinite-staircase-upper-01-small.jpg

Infinite Staircase map-infinite-staircase-01-small.jpg

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping Oryan77 http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23136 Ruined neighbourhood http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23133&goto=newpost Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:51:01 GMT This is just a big battlemap used for playing Mordheim on a virtual game table. It uses a variety of other people's elements and some of my own. Sadly I stopped working on it and just dragged in a bunch of rooftops to fill in the rest, but perhaps it will be useful for anyone wanting to run a large urban encounter. I have a higher quality version as well as the .psd file but they is too large to post here. Let me know if you would like either of those things and I'll figure out a way to do it.

cheers
Meshon

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping Meshon http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23133 IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23021&goto=newpost Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:18:03 GMT This 'mapping' project is several steps to the left of the usual mapping done here, and I'm not sure which forum to drop this into but this one seems the most likely.

IL2 Sturmovik is a WW2 air combat simulator game. It has a 'mission generator' which allows you to build battle-maps and geographic features. This one below is a German aerodrome September 1st 1939.

Two elevated shots of the aerodrome.

IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome-aerodrome0.jpg

IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome-aerodrome1.jpg

This is what the mission editor looks like.

IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome-aerodrome2.jpg

This is what you get after you add time and weather elements.

IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome-aerodrome3.jpg

IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome-aerodrome4.jpg

IL2 Sturmovik battlemap - aerodrome-aerodrome5.jpg

Cheers,
~Scribbler

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23021 Stairs - Trying to get better http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22992&goto=newpost Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:13:12 GMT I've been working on a good methodology for producing stairs that look like stairs, and I'm not quite there yet. Here's an example, showing a straight staircase descending north to south (100dpi 5' per inch scale). It's not terrible, it's not even bad, but I think there's room for improvement, especially at the bottom, where the descent shadow mixes with the final step shadow on the floor, producing a missing step. My basic process (Gimp):

Lay out steps using standard fill techniques.
Build a series of step shadows using Gaussian Blur in a Soft Light layer.
Build a single gradient descent shadow covering the steps in a second Soft Light layer.

The walls are just black placeholders, and they have a light shadow applied.

Stairs - Trying to get better-stairtest.png

Any thoughts on how to improve this?

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping mthomas768 http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22992 Pirate bar on a shipwreck http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22919&goto=newpost Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:52:00 GMT Attachment 53380 (http://www.cartographersguild.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=53380) I wanted to do a pirate bar at some point (yes, still on a...

I wanted to do a pirate bar at some point (yes, still on a pirate ship kick), but I really didn't want it to be yet another fantasy bar. So this idea is for a bar built on the wrecks of two ships. The backstory is roughly that one ship rammed the other, they got entangled and couldn't extricate themselves, and ran aground on some rocks. The hulks survived and a local entrepreneur braced the wrecks and turned them into a bar. Now there's a dock for the brave and foolhardy to berth their boats to come aboard and sample the finest rum in the land.

This sketch has some of my working process - it was originally going to be a ship that had run aground into a bar - but then I was struggling to make that work. Then two ships side by side, and finally the two locked together like this.

I want this to have all the terrain needed for swashbuckling bar fights. So far I'm thinking:
• a plank (or two) that can be walked.
• cannons or ballistae on the prows for 'crowd control'
• Rigging for swinging
• Lots of multiple levels for jumping and tumbling
• Below decks strong rooms for pirate/mafia boss/illegal bootleg rum - and a cell for keeping rowdy guests who've got too rowdy
• platform for performances.

What other things should a pirate bar on a pair of wrecked ships contain?

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping torstan http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22919 A Quick Geomorph http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22896&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:36:54 GMT I decided to see how fast I could pull together a geomorph-style tile this morning, using the same style as my most recent mapping project. I did... I decided to see how fast I could pull together a geomorph-style tile this morning, using the same style as my most recent mapping project. I did this at 100dpi, 1" = 5' scale, starting in Inkscape to lay out the walls and then moving to Gimp for textures and fills. I stole a couple of decorations from Bogie's thread of premade mapping elements and resampled them to scale.

Here's the basic tile:

And here's the same tile duplicated and rotated beside itself to test the matchup between them:

This took about two hours, with a couple detours. I had to rejigger the doors to fit this resolution. I stole them from my Tombs project, which is 150dpi. I also had to rebuild a grid to this scale.

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping mthomas768 http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22896 Wild Road http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22885&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:41:49 GMT Here's a couple maps I put together ages ago but have just rediscovered on my hard drive. They should fit together end-to-end for a longer road if you need a running battle!

And without the barrier log...

Hope they might be of use.

cheers,
Meshon

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping Meshon http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22885 Ambush site http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22876&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:22:48 GMT Here is the site of a road ambush by highwaymen... Attachment 53304 (http://www.cartographersguild.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=53304) As... Here is the site of a road ambush by highwaymen...

As you can see, the crafty rogues hide themselves behind camouflaged mantlets (I made these for the occasion, and posted them on Bogie's thread)

I don't know how much I like this map, it could almost certainly use some improvement. Getting rid of the line of rocks between the hill and the road would help prettify the map. But this is a tactical element (the hill is much steeper there, forcing the players to climb while under fire or taking the longer way around it -in which the bandits have dug some spear pits) and I wanted it to be clearly represented on the map...

The place also look a bit green... But, he, it is suppose to be the end of summer so that kind of make sense...

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping Simon33600 http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22876 WIP: floating boulders (need help/suggestions please) http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22763&goto=newpost Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:03:31 GMT New map I'm working on (currently unnamed), of large boulders floating above a poisonous fog.

I don't want to add any other major elements to it, but since it's such a simple scene, I do want to include some nice details (on the rocks). Problem is, I've been staring at it (off and on) for the past couple hours and I'm having a complete mind blank.

Any ideas/suggestions about what I could add to "spruce it up" and make it a little more interesting would be much appreciated!

Also, I did consider adding some monkey bridges between the rocks...but I think I'd rather leave them like this, so players have to figure out how to traverse them. >:)

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping Neyjour http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22763 A corner of the crypts http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22726&goto=newpost Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:40:14 GMT This is a piece of an early version of my current project, an underground temple/crypts complex done with Gimp/Inkscape. I've been focused on getting floors I'm happy with, and I think I'm getting close. The doors are just placeholders, the raw layout as it comes in from Inkscape. The caskets/coffins are first draft. I'm pleased with the general look, but I need to do some better textures for those. And now that I'm looking at it, it looks very bright for a crypt...

A corner of the crypts-samplecrypts2.png

Feedback always appreciated!

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]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping mthomas768 http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22726 <![CDATA[Modern & Near-Future Street Tiles]]> http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22540&goto=newpost Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:15:29 GMT Hello, I finished my cyberpunk street tiles, all are available plain for modern use and with blue lights lining the streets for a cyberpunkish... Hello,

I finished my cyberpunk street tiles, all are available plain for modern use and with blue lights lining the streets for a cyberpunkish look.

Also included is the PSD file which I used to create all the tiles, so in that file is everything you need to create your own tiles, even some instructions are included in the "data" layergroup.

In any case, if you have any ideas for stuff that is missing, please tell me and I will try to incorporate it into the next version. I will even do custom work if you need one specific tile for your campaign, maybe with a certain marking or something.

Here's how to use the tiles:

After extracting, there is the main folder with all tiles plus the PSD file and a folder "Lights" which has copies of all tiles, only with curb lights.

All tiles follow a simple naming scheme to quickly find what you're looking for:

First digit:
I = Straight Road
L = L-shaped Turn
T = T-crossing
X = X-crossing

Second digit:
N = Narrow street, for suburbs and side streets, alleys etc.
W = Wide street, for main roads and highways

Other keywords:

Asphalt (plain road without sidewalk)
VTOL (VTOL landing spot)
Plaza (plain sidewalk without and road or curb, as well as some decorative asphalt spots in the middle... For putting a potted plant or something in it.

I recommend first doing a basic street layout, then placing special street tiles for pedestrian crossing etc, and then adding a 3 square wide sidewalk along all roads.

Even better would be to create your city grid in your favourite graphics editing program, this way you can easily add grunge and trash etc. without having to worry about tiling issues.

Comments welcome! (Via PM or eMail: "chernoskill (at) gmx (dot) net".

Have fun building your city ;)

Cherno

Streets_ChernoV1

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[/spoiler] ]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping Cherno http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22540 Stormtower BattleMaps http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22519&goto=newpost Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:51:03 GMT Hi,

I've run the mini-adventure "Stormtower" from Dungeon Magazine twice (it is most notable for being the campaign from one of the Penny Arcade D&D podcasts). The first and last map in the adventure are easily built with dungeon tiles, but the middle three are not so I thought I'd share what I built for those.

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0Bz...it?usp=sharing

I've used maps posted on this forum in my campaigns for years, trying to start giving back! ]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping RoboTony http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22519 Revenge of the Marauders Battle Maps http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22512&goto=newpost Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:12:24 GMT Hi,

I made these maps for use in a Dark Sun campaign for which I ran the "Revenge of the Marauders" adventure available in Dungeon magazine.

The maps are a wizard's tower that the heroes enter from the top and progressively work their way down to the vault.

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0Bz...it?usp=sharing ]]> Virtual Tabletop/Battlemap Mapping RoboTony http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=22512