About maps, plans and deck plans

[General Pain]

Originally Posted by leonpoi

This is a town I'm going to use. The map is actually randomly generated in a couple of seconds and then exported to a mapping programme. It's a handy feature because villages and towns can be quickly generated if the pcs stumble into one (for example from a random encounter).

excellent map...

how did you make it?

[Cdnwolf]

Sea cruise anyone? If anyone is interested I have the complete deck plans for most of the worlds cruise ships.

[Marc]

From "Close Combat Series", the Arnhem bridge and especially its north ramp and surrounding area, taken and defended by the people of John Frost. In the T2K setup, it could be any European or American city with an important river. As always in these maps, the number shows the height in floors.

City 4.pdf

[leonpoi]

Originally Posted by General Pain

excellent map...

how did you make it?

First I grabbed a random city generator that is good by itself:
http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/...map-generator/

it's so quick and simple to use, and generates pretty good maps (exported to bmps etc) by itself. However, where it gets really good is that fractal mapper has a plugin which you can use to import a saved map from this programme. Once it's imported it looks better, and you can move things around etc. All I've done to the imported map is drag the roads and rivers out a touch, deleted a few dead-end roads from the random generation, and plopped in a building of my own (the barracks over the river) and the rubble etc. I selected a 20m (I think) hex-grid and we're good to go. I love it because I roll Village as a random encounter and while the pcs are discussing what they are doing I'm quickly generating a map, plus you can print a few for future use.

[edit] by the way the plugin works on the demo and I think the demo exports image files.

[leonpoi]

here is another example of a map quickly generated. There are 2 versions here, the first has some shading/fill to represent the area of the town. I would like some feedback from anyone about which version they think looks best.

Also, any idea how I would show fields/crops on the map? I've tried to represent them by hashed/shaded regions but it doesn't look quite right. If anyone has some ideas, that would be great.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3695/mapc.png
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5901/map2t.png

[Cdnwolf]

I use the program too and its great for those small towns that are nestled in the woods.

[Canadian Army]

Here is the Layout for a Royal Observation Corps Monitoring Post and Group Headquarters that I found here: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/index2.shtml

[Marc]

Trying to revive this thread after some months of inactivity...

[Marc]

A partially destroyed urban area.

City 5.zip