I have a few mapping questions. The first is whether there's any free and easy to use dungeon mapping tool out there which produces decent looking full color dungeon maps and allows you to use custom tiles. I'm looking for something like the defunct Dungeon Crafter III with the added ability to open previously saved maps to work on them again (a feature which I guess never quite got developed in DC3). Some more advanced features might be nice too, but if I need a map to be extra fancy I can haul it into something like Paint.Net or GIMP and add some layers. I'm mostly just looking for something to whip up quick maps with the ability to use some custom tiles. Some of the online mapping tools seem to have pretty limited tile sets...maybe I just don't know the best tools to use or how to use them though...assistance would be appreciated!
The second question is whether anybody out there has some good "jungle" maps they could share with me or links to sites which have them. At the moment I'm looking for encounter sized maps of jungle locations such as a ruined temple, a makeshift village, and if possible a mansion/inn/villa type building with balconies. I'll be running some adventures starting tomorrow evening, and I'd like to offer the players something nicer than my modest and rather slow wet erase marker drawings on a vinyl mat. Obviously I'm a little short on prep time at this point, and DC3 isn't particularly good for outdoor scenes anyhow since everything is drawn with square tiles.
I'm just looking to print maps out for now and have found that the Poster Razor app is helpful for that. A friend of mine has been using a projector lately though, and I might switch to that or a table with an LCD TV in it at some point. Does anybody have some experience with tables which incorporate a TV and what the challenges are?