Subterrainian Map Prettier Script

[RobA]

Nope. Just using the B&W to act as a mask defining the "inside" and then building a map (with an optional distortion step).

Layers generated are (top down):
-Wall Style (bevel or stroke)
-Wall Fill
-Wall Shadows
-Grid Bump Overlay
-Grid Stroke
-Floor Plasma Noise Overlay
-Floor Texture

So they can all be tweaked. The floor and wall-fill textures are either procedural (the previous example), or you can specify a Gimp pattern.

In place of the bevel, the wall style can be a solid wall with a pattern (or solid colour) and optional bevel. It does end up giving you a lot of options though....



-Rob A>

[Redrobes]

Its very cool and will be very useful. I am planning on using scripts more to generate standard type maps like dungeons. I reckon where you can script its a good idea to try it. Gimp scripting is a very powerful way of making maps.

[Torq]

That script is a fantastic idea Rob. Any plans on making it available to the circling birds of prey?

Torq

[Steel General]

That script is a fantastic idea Rob. Any plans on making it available to the circling birds of prey?

Torq

If I'm not mistaken, I think once this months contest is done he will make the script available to the masses.

[RobA]

Another teaser is a second script I wrote to batch process. Just point the thing to a folder of templates and it will turn them all into maps having the same settings.

(I also got rid of the shadow in the doors).

-Rob A>

[Sagenlicht]

That script is a fantastic idea Rob. Any plans on making it available to the circling birds of prey?

Torq

I'll completly agree, thats a nice script for sure. Would save me a ton of work

[The Cartographist]

Aaahhh, RobA. You and your teasers...

[RobA]

OK -

Here is the GIMP script. This includes both the dungeon map maker (under filters) and the batch processor for applying the same filter on a bunch of files in a directory (under Xtns in the main Gimp window)

Enjoy!

EDIT: There is an update to the script in this post that fixes one little bug, and allows for downloading a random cave map of the internet as a base map!

-Rob A>

[RobA]

Inspired by Tim's maps, I banged out a quick example of the script:

I used a solid white fill for the BG, java (coffee beans) for the walls, and set the distortion to 50%, grid at 24 px.

Here was the input (traced quickly over tim's map with rounded rectangles and circles):


And the result of the script after adjusting the shadow layer curve and drawing a few doors in with a door brush I made up:


-Rob A>

[Sagenlicht]

OK -

Here is the GIMP script. This includes both the dungeon map maker (under filters) and the batch processor for applying the same filter on a bunch of files in a directory (under Xtns in the main Gimp window)

Enjoy!

-Rob A>

Oh ty ty RobA. This will help me for sure doing my dungeon maps. Will give it a shot as soon as I got some spare time and will post my result.

Thanks again RobA.