#PROFANTASY SOFTWARE TORENT FREE#
Add custom map items (Buildings & other objects on the "Map Items" tab.) The free version lets you add 10.Run the map key wizard to quickly create a key.Make child/sub-maps where 1 hex from a current map becomes between 4-30 hexes in a child map.Expand existing maps with extra hex rows/columns.Change terrain & feature icons and add new custom terrain & features.How much does this cost? The basic version is free though the paid version is more useful, allowing for the following (taken from the Hexographer website): The learning curve is very small - you'll be producing maps right away and as you grow in proficiency (I'm still a relative novice) you'll find you can do more and more with it. Overall, I'm very pleased with the product (which can also be used to make Traveller sector maps, village maps, etc.) Hexographer provides a nice balance between utility and artistic merit - the maps you produce will be extremely useful for gaming and will be far from shoddy looking. Id also like to see more "official" support for maps like the one I'm showing above, with larger master hexes and smaller-scale hexes (in my map the smaller hexes are the "real" ones, the larger ones having been drawn over it). For example, I'd really, really like for there to be an undo button. There's a few things I'd like to see improved.
#PROFANTASY SOFTWARE TORENT PRO#
I've run it both on my Windows 7 PC and my MacBook Pro and I know there are people who run it on Linux as well. The maps themselves can be saved as a PNG image if you want something that can be viewed by anyone. You can designate certain things as GM-visible only to allow you to print out a players' map. The maps produced have various features which can be turned on or off. It is still in development - for example I've yet to provide labels. The map above did not take me long to make - perhaps an hour, and it was one of the first maps I made with Hexographer. The main use I got out of this was the ability to draw bodies of water which do not follow a strict hexagonal pattern. Hexographer also provides a tool to draw polygons. which can either follow the outlines of individual hexes or be drawn free-form.
For example, you can make roads, rivers, borders, etc. There are tools that allow you to make variations from the strict hex icons. The map above makes use of the default template. At its default each hex gets its own terrain.You can change the appearance of your map by using a different terrain template, giving you different icons for each terrain. There's a few things worth noting about the map I'm developing.
super-hexes and smaller hexes) is something I downloaded from the Welsh Piper, a blog for busy game masters (I'd encourage you to spend some time at the site if you're anything like me with a job, a family, and a hobby that has you making maps.) Note that the regional hex template I'm using (i.e. The larger hexes are 25 miles per hex while the smaller hexes are each 5 miles. What I'm doing in this map is a map in the style of the old Judges' Guild Wilderlands map.
As its default, Hexographer produces maps in as style reminiscent of the original D&D Gazetteer series.īelow you can see a map I'm in the process of making with Hexographer (and the banner for this blog was made with it as well): Indeed, there are often advantages to producing maps in this style, as it allows a game master to better map out his setting for adventures, whether on an epic quest or exploring a "sandbox". That brings us to Inkwell Ideas' Hexographer, product which steers towards producing hex maps whose main advantage is utility (though the maps produced are by no means ugly and are reminiscent of the maps produced in the 70s and 80s by TSR and Judges' Guild. Suffice to say while Campaign Cartographer can produce excellent maps, doing so requires practice and time - Campaign Cartographer is essentially a CAD program that has been customized for map making. I've tried my hand at making maps which aspire to goals beyond mere functionality, using using ProFantasy's excellent Campaign Cartographer products. In my house, for example, is a framed map of New York City as it was around the time of the American Revolution. Personally I absolutely love maps and I suspect I'm not the only one in the hobby like that. Individual game masters have a bit more flexibility as they have just their own groups to satisfy. I've noted two common goals in RPG maps, those of utility and those of artistic merit.
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