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    Help Making an Atlas Need Some Advice

    Hi

    I'm making an Atlas of fantasy maps and I would like to do them in the style of HandsomeRob's tutorial.

    OK I have Photoshop cs2, Illustrator cs2, Gimp, and can get Inkscape at any time if I need to (Hell it's free).

    Now I'm using FTPro to create maps. is there any technique I can use to smooth out the FT's fractal spaghetti and make it look more like a modern Atlas style map?

    Another question is about using real world maps and modifying them to my specifications to place in my maps. This is if I can't get the FT stuff to work out for me. Any thing I need to know or some tutorials to point me towards.

    EDIT: Sorry that was a dumb question. Just import them into photoshop and do as Ye will.

    One of my drawbacks is I don't have the money to get those really nice 3d programs. One I did look at was WorldMachine. That is one strange program. Anyone here ever use it and is it worth it to figure out?

    Thanks all !!!!! Love this place. I have learned a lot in the time I'v been here!
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    If you're using FT, then get Wilbur (it's free). I normally setup my maps in FT and export as a Special MDR File (*.mdr) for Wilbur to play with. Wilbur's got great options for erosion, bump map and slope map exporting, quite a few must haves. I'm still learning the program but it's pretty good for the price

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    Have you seen http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/CGTutorial/index.html as an example of some FT techniques?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadavar View Post
    If you're using FT, then get Wilbur (it's free). I normally setup my maps in FT and export as a Special MDR File (*.mdr) for Wilbur to play with. Wilbur's got great options for erosion, bump map and slope map exporting, quite a few must haves. I'm still learning the program but it's pretty good for the price
    Thanks I'll check that out!

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    Quote Originally Posted by waldronate View Post
    Have you seen http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/CGTutorial/index.html as an example of some FT techniques?
    Thanks! Yes that's a good one.

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    Hey, Nexis - did you ever find the 3.5 books you were looking for, plus have you got Pathfinder, yet?

    One more thing, just a note for you Waldronate who just posted a link for you is the primary developer for both FTPro and Wilbur, he can be lots of help for you, just thought you ought to know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamerprinter View Post
    Hey, Nexis - did you ever find the 3.5 books you were looking for, plus have you got Pathfinder, yet?

    One more thing, just a note for you Waldronate who just posted a link for you is the primary developer for both FTPro and Wilbur, he can be lots of help for you, just thought you ought to know.

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    Yep found the 3.5 books. Don't like em so I switched to GURPS 4th

    Looking over Wilbur now and I am impressed at what it can do!

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    No problem, Nexis, 3.5 ain't for everybody - GURPS is a good system, however, good gaming!

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