This tutorial on creating fantasy city maps at the Cartographers' Guild is an excellent place to start even if it is written with Photoshop in mind.įinally, the unquestionably-best way to learn how to create fantasy city maps in GIMP (if you haven't already guessed from the festival of links) is to sign up at the Cartographers' Guild forum so you can read through the reams of material there.
Another sources of "street-like images" you can trace is stock photography of broken glass.įor a less street-dense map, working on improving your map-centric image manipulation skills has more payoff for the time invested than experimenting with plugins to do the job. I haven't been able to find any others, though.Īnother method is to use something other than a plugin to generate a network of lines: this tutorial uses a city-generating program to create a street network image, which is then imported as an image and traced by hand. If you're on Windows using the GIMP, there is a Voronoi diagram plugin binary that can randomly generate street-like lines ( as seen here) suitable for a city map, but it's an old plugin that isn't maintained anymore. If you've got a small city or are drawing only a high-level view of it you can get away with hand-drawn streets, but for more complex streets like in this city map that would be mind-meltingly tedious. The hardest part of making a fantasy city map is laying down the streets-everything else (city walls, surrounding terrain, water, building fill, text, etc.) is the application of more basic cartography techniques. However, depending on what you're going for, there are plugins that can help. That’s not bad.You don't exactly need plugins for this sort of thing: the most important skill for using raster software like the GIMP for map-making is learning how to use the existing functionality to get the effects you're interested in. But, I’ve been hearing good things about Wonderdraft and the maps people create using it are pretty. I couldn’t experiment with this because you have to pay to download it. Kinda defeats the purpose but I really like those colors and how easy it to make a landmass and doing so would make things a bit easier. Since I can export the basic version, I could open it in Photoshop and finished editing. Obviously, with the free version, you’re limited to what you can do. I wish the shape wasn’t as round but I still like how this turned out. Also, like that way they do for the coastline. I like Photoshop but is there a better fantasy mapmaking software out there? Inkarnate But, I am curious if there’s an easier way. I mentioned in the last post 2 Ways to Make Fantasy Maps in Photoshop, that I, as the title says, use Photoshop to make my fantasy maps.
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