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Hey all,
I'm attempting to use GIMP to take the Kingmaker maps, layer the player's blank hex map, and reveal only sections of what can be explored.
I'm having difficulty matching up layers, and selecting only sections to reveal.
Does anyone out there have GIMP experience who can help me?
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Over on the Cartographer's Guild forums, there are plenty of people with strong GIMP-Fu. They are a friendly bunch.
I've been over there, but my questions are Kingmaker-specific.
For example, I can easily deal with the base map -- but how do I find or extract a symbol for Oleg's Chandlery and paste it into my GIMP detail layer?
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Hey all,
I'm attempting to use GIMP to take the Kingmaker maps, layer the player's blank hex map, and reveal only sections of what can be explored.
I'm having difficulty matching up layers, and selecting only sections to reveal.
Does anyone out there have GIMP experience who can help me?
I don't use GIMP, but I've got Photoshop CS 4, and I'd be happy to whip up some simple icons for your map, based off those in Kingmaker. I've been doing mapping for my group's game the old fashioned way, but I'm also doing fancy online maps for the showing off and whatnot. You can see the current, no-fancy-icon version here.
Note: I don't have any of the adventures after "Varnhold Vanishing," due to being incredibly poor and unemployed, but I do have access to the other adventures, so I've seen the little map symbols and can make versions you could use pretty quick. Also, I can provide a version of my map and hexes sans art if you'd like.
I'm a player in a Kingmaker campaign and I'm also doing our mapping with Photoshop. I've been thinking about some icons too, so I'd also be glad to see what you come up with!
Here's a map of the area we have explored so far (contains spoilers of Stolen Lands locations)
Hey all,
I'm attempting to use GIMP to take the Kingmaker maps, layer the player's blank hex map, and reveal only sections of what can be explored.
I'm having difficulty matching up layers, and selecting only sections to reveal.
Does anyone out there have GIMP experience who can help me?
I use Gimp2. I took a screenshot [using Screenhunter] of the map, and then I use Gimp to "fog-of-war" the bits that the party have not explored.
Warning: Contains Spoilers of map locations
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If you have Foxit PDFEdit you can export the map page and then move all the labels so they are contained within their own hexes which means you can avoid spray/smudging out the text that invades other hexes.
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I used GIMP to layer the player handout blank hex map over the DM map, and unveil hexes as they explore.
I tried Foxit PDF editor, and it let me manipulate the map icons ... sort of. Most of them are multiple images, and I can't just cut and paste them into my current GIMP map.
I'm looking at adding a map/label layer in GIMP, and putting the images of settlements, etc. into it. It'll be useful when then the players get further along, and I need to add new settlements and towns.
Any specific suggestions on extracting the icon images and bringing them into GIMP?
I removed a link from an above post. Please don't redistribute our cartography.