Map Tutorials & Guides

[size=16][b]A list of links to map tutorials and guides at D12 & the Web.[/b][/size] [size=9]Please do not add any comments on this page, this is not a discussion page, it is a resource page. If you have a related link, please send me a message.[/size] [b]DXII Guide to Map Making:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/589/dxii-guide-to-map-making [i]Everything needed to know about how to make a map at DXII[/i] [b]Region Bonus Formula:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/1858/region-bonuses [i]How to calculate the bonus value for a region (also in the DXII Guide above)[/i] [b]Troops & Neutrals:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/2026/neutrals-24-to-128-teritories [i]An image of a spread-sheet that calculates the spawned troop amounts & neutrals for maps with between 24 & 128 territories[/i] [b]Copyright Tutorial:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/1221/maps-and-copyright [i]How to apply for permission to use copyright material[/i] [b]Paint.net Plug In Tutorial:[/b] http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/1708-how-to-install-pluginsgeneral-plugin-troubleshooting-thread/ [i]How to use Paint.net plug-ins[/i] [b]Example First Post:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/782/example-first-post [i]How you should present your first post about your new map[/i] [b]Showing Maps in your Post:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/1995/risk-the-west-indies/post/29842#post-29842 [i]How to add your map image to your post[/i] [b]Map Suggestions (not an actual map):[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/93/map-suggestions [i]Where you should suggest a map you plan to make or would like to see at D12[/i] [b]Map game editor:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/2004/risk-map-editor [i]Make your own game on any map to test how the game play works.[/i] [b]Render Clouds to create a random land mass:[/b] No image links working [i]A tried and tested method for obtaining natural looking land for your fictional map.[/i] [b]Drawing Outlines, Borders & Territory Dividers:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/2007/outlines-borders-amp-territories [i]One of my regularly used methods (the easy one).[/i] [b]Using the line tools in Paint.net:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/1803/map-dabble#post-30114 [i]A highlighted pictorial reference for Smooth Connections.[/i] (Image links not working) [b]How to make Curved Dashed lines in Photoshop CS2 or earlier:[/b] https://dominating12.com/forums/3/map-creation/2002/map-tutorials-amp-guides/post/52336#post-52336 [i]A pictorial step by step tutorial.[/i] [b]Andrews Schoolroom Chart of Geographical Illustrations:[/b] https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~200861~3000550 External Link (zoom in)

I need a lesson in textures. i'm using the texture tool in paint.net rather than black & white layers. :D

think i figured it out. just turn the textured things i find into black and white images, then use the opacity thing?

[quote=aeronautic]Please do not add any comments on this page, this is not a discussion page, it is a resource page. If you have a related link, please send me a message[/quote] LOL Hoody, perhaps I should have put it in big bold letters. I think you mean that certain pre set (program) textures use two contrasting colours to give the desired texture effect. This is true with a lot of them, even in Photoshop, which I thought you had now?! However, most of us don't use the program textures, well not on their own anyway, a texture can be anything, even a zoomed in image of an asphalt road and textures can be placed on top of other textures and dropped in transparency to show both. You can do this with many different textures, moving them above or below each other in the layers to make the least prominent ones at the top whilst raising and lowering the opacities until you find one that you like, then you can merge down from the top texture layer to the bottom one, leaving you with one layer of texture. Of course you can make many like this until you are happy with one for your map. You can even put colour screens over certain layers to create different colour tones, by making a new layer and filling it with a nice hard colour then drop the opacity until it is just a coloured semi transparent screen. This is a handy thing to know if you want to put a colour tone over any layer, but be aware that screens take out your clarity of detail. I had plans to make a texture tutorial just like the outlines tutorial, as well as mountains, rivers & bridges tutorials. I started the mountains tutorial this evening whilst making mountains ready for the Westeros map and your NZ map, but it may be a little while before I can dedicate quality time to tutorials, which is a shame because that's where these posts should have been in order to keep this page as a resource page only. Perhaps the programmers can move these to the tutorial page when it is made?

Curved Dashed Lines (Sea Connections). I use Photoshop CS2 and as far as I know, there are no tools for making dashed lines and the curve facility (Arc) is difficult to find and use. This is something that is used on most maps and is difficult to produce and of low consistency quality in my version of Photoshop. Below is a pictorial tutorial to make them. If there are any Photoshop users that know of a better way or a tool for making them in Photoshop CS2 or earlier versions, please let me know here and I will update the tutorial. [spoiler=Curved Dashed Lines][img]https://www.the-inkstore.co.uk/map_resources/Tutorials/Curved-Lines/Curved-Line1.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.the-inkstore.co.uk/map_resources/Tutorials/Curved-Lines/Curved-Line2.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.the-inkstore.co.uk/map_resources/Tutorials/Curved-Lines/Curved-Line3.jpg[/img][/spoiler]

Link added to Post #1 List [b]Andrews Schoolroom Chart of Geographical Illustrations:[/b] https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~200861~3000550 External Link You can zoom right in to this, so it is all readable to the tiniest detail. It is very old (1915), but the terminology is all still in use.