Interesting Technique for Hex Maps

[RobA]

That is a very interesting technique... If you smoothed the height map hexes with a gradient you could get a more gradual effect as well, but it would require more work. Definitely a neat idea.

Just blur it! That would smooth it quite well.

(If anyone a a hex map, load it up here and I'll give it a go)

-Rob A>

[RPMiller]

Give this one a shot.

[RobA]

Best I could do (It was a pain because the map you attached isn't exactly hex).

It is a quick and dirty heightfield that I generated by selecting by colour, expanding the selection by 6px then shrinking the selection by 5 px, then filling with a color.

Different blurs of the height field produce different results.

Ideally, the mosaic filter (with a hex tile should work, but I just couldn't get it to line up with the image...


-Rob A>

[RPMiller]

Neat! That was a map that someone posted at the RPTools forums for use with MapTool.

I'll be sure to direct them over here to show them what you've done.

[ravells]

Very nice! Lovely results Rob. As a matter of interest, why did you increase the selection by 6 and decrease by 5 rather than just increasing by 1?

[RobA]

To get rid of the stuff in the middle of the cells (mountian symbold, plains symbols, etc)

-Rob A>

[Hawke]

Very cool! I love what you did with the map, I hadn't ever thought about anything like that. Sort of reminds me of HeroScape.

[RPMiller]

Welcome Hawke! Hawke is from the MapTool forums and the creator of that hex map in case anyone is wondering.

You play HeroScape? HeroScape is big fun. I own pretty much everything for it. Although this latest Wave has been difficult to find.