Some useful addons?

[jfrazierjr]

Not much help, but you did your best.

Mountains I just want an overhead view.

Perhaps it be best if you can link to a few styles you are looking to immitate... even with overhead views, there are quite a number of styles, some easier than others to deal with. If I recall correctly, PDN does not have anything like the Bump Map(though it might be somewhat fakeable with emboss or something like that), so that might leave some tutorials out from the get go...

For example, here is a hand drawn style of overhead mountains see the second and third images. Those you could do with just about any tool since it's mostly the artist at work. RobA's regional map tutorial for GIMP uses GIMP's bump map and render clouds features quite a bit, so if PDN has anything similar, you might be able to follow along with that. Or Ascension has several that begin with Photoshop in mind... here


There are also a few PDN tutorials in the Tutorials forum, just go the the advanced search and put in "Paint.Net" in the keywords and limit it to the tutorial forum.