Just wondering if anyone has created any maps for AoW that they would be willing to share (granted if it's ok with the publishers)? I've been thinking about making them myself but if someone has already done the work that would save me a bit of time.
I haven't started running the adventure yet so I'd need pretty much all of the maps starting with the first adventure.
Dunjinni is both a boon and a bane to me. It's helpful and better than nothing at all (just barely) but I find it incredibly frustrating to use. Everytime I am haunted by my wife's insistance I buy Campaign Cartographer instead (which I stubbornly overruled at purchase time). At any rate, I've used it to create some battle maps for Whispering Cairn (which is as far as the play group has progressed at this time). I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for though and my maps take up several pages, which then need to be laid out carefully - and have a bothersome white border I can't seem to eliminate >:<
I found making a battle map for the submerged rooms the most helpful so far and they weren't too difficult to construct.
I'm willing to try to get them to you but as I said, they're very simple and probably not what you're looking for.
I am in a similar position - I will probably have a crack at using DJ for maps. I am starting whispering Cairn on Thursday next week - I will post here if I get a chance to make maps. If I do they will go up at the DJ website forum.
Personally I love DJ: easy to use, much easier than Campaign Cartographer. Produces amazing maps with relatively small effort and the forum is a fantastic resource overflowing with groovy graphics.
I don't actually own Dundjinni yet. I was thinking of purchasing it. I tried the demo but my computer didn't like it. The demo seemed to have some serious memory issues. There was a guy over at montecook.com who did a bunch of maps for banewarrens. They were nice stuff. He put them up on a site in pdf and in jpg.
Perhaps I should just buy the program and try and see what I can create. As far as the white border, even his stuff had the white border.. don't think it can be disabled (that I know of). I have a friend who owns CC2, and I am not to impressed with it. The graphics are subpar compared to dunjinni's. But it does have several options, which I imagine the full version of dundjinni might.
Is there a better map program for 2D maps then Dundjinni?
Is there a better map program for 2d maps? I feel there is. RFFLOW is a flow-charting program that is incredibly easy to use. RFF Electronics sells it online via a download, but it is not cheap. However, there is a free trial version with limited symbol availability. The website is www.rff.com
It's a super easy flow-charting program that allows you quickly duplicate symbols, drag them around and export to .bmp and .gif or .jpg files.
To make battle mats with RFFLOW, I make sure that I enable "print grid lines" and use the "13" spacing between grid lines and it makes a perfect 8 1/2 x 11 battle mat.
I use the thousands of inherent symbols that come with RFFLOW to create walls, furniture, etc.
If I need to put outdoor features into it, I can import clipart from any other windows program and turn them into RFFLOW charting symbols.
I use thick tan printer paper for indoor maps and thick green printer paper for outdoor maps.
It's much faster and much easier to use than Campaign Cartographer (most of which I loathe), but you still have to put some work into it to make the end result pretty.
However, the program is very small, very fast and very reliable. I started using it at work about 8 years ago and after CC was such a disappointment I started using it as my main mapping program.
I will admit that DJ has a few quirks that need ironing out yet. Printing from the programme is one of them, but they do regular patches that provide new functionality. Outputting maps is best done to jpeg or bmp - you then use a bit of post production in Photoshop (or whatever) to trim it to size. Print as big as possible and then craft knife and scissors.
Or just use a computer projector
But if you have not tried out the DJ forum - do it. Just type in something in the search box - waterfall, radioactive waste barrel, gargoyle, undead dragon etc etc.
And I'm not on commission
Host of Angels,
Not meaning to hi-jack this thread but can you give me a hint on how to include downloads from the Dunjinnni site to my Dunjinni program. When I purchased Dunjinni I went to their site and successfully downloaded their user collections 1 & 2 and also Hammerfell's collection. All other maps, images,collections,etc I've downloaded from their site goes to my document file. When I open it I can look at it - sometimes as a picture, sometimes in document-like fashion but I can't seem to get them to move to my actual dunjinni program to be used when I am personally making a map. Many include instructions on putting it under fantasy/user/whatever, and I understand where they BELONG in the dunjinni menu but how do I GET them there?
Do you understand my ridiculous problem? Can you break it down Barney-style for me? I'd really appreciate it since I've got a dozen downloads that are hanging out on my hard-drive but serve no real application.
no problemo
You need to copy stuff directly into the program file directories, specifically the Map / Fantasy directory.
Open up c: Programme files / Fluid / Dunjinni / Map / Fantasy
For the user collections, copy the entire folder into this folder which already has folders in it called Castle, Dungeon, Temple, Tokens, User, Village and Wild (depends what art packs you have).
For other art pulled from the forum, shove it into the User folder - inside an appropriate labelled folder. So, put a rusted metal spiral staircase in the Objects folder and so on.
You will need to shut DJ down and reboot it for these new images to become available in the programme. Also note that if you use user art, the DJ file will not work for other people unless they have exactly the same file structure. For maps you want to post on-line it is best to stick with non-user art. Also note copyright issues with posting identical versions of published maps on line.
Unless the nice folk at Paizo give us permission...
Any Q's ask or post on the forum - they are friendly.
Host of Angels,
Thank you SO much. I have put in requests to the DJ forum without results so I appreciate your help here.
I'll fiddle with the imports tonight and report in if I have trouble.
Thanks again.
