Dragon Map Maker is a new App in Early Access for creating grid based battle maps for Tabletop Roleplaying games such as D&D. It creates 2d maps you can use in Virtual Tabletops or print them yourself to use at your table. (Note: It’s not a Virtual Table Top)
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Dragon Map Maker is a new App in Early Access for creating grid-based battle maps for Tabletop Roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Path Finder, Call of Cthulhu etc. It makes maps you can use on Virtual Tabletops like Roll20, FoundryVTT, FantasyGrounds and MapTools or you can print them yourself to use at your table. (Note: it’s not a Virtual Table Top). This is the Indie Commercial License version of Dragon Map Maker. Check the EULA section 3.3 for further details.
There are some simple elements that come together to make up a DMM map: Grid and Beauty views: You have two main view modes you can toggle between. Grid View is designed to be fast and responsive. Showing the bare minimum so the basics of the map can be read and changed quickly and easily. Beauty View is there to show the user how the map will look when it's rendered with everything spawned and visible.
Rooms: Rooms are what they sound like, Rooms! A house or dungeon is made up of rooms. You can create any number of rooms and simply paint those onto the grid squares. When you create a Room a corresponding button is created in the button list on the right side of the screen. You then assign different Room Themes to your Rooms.
Room Themes (Room based object spawning): You have a large selection of Room Themes to choose from. With more being added as development continues.
Theme Marker Tool (Clever object spawning only where you need it): As well as applying themes to your rooms, you can also add what’s called a Theme Marker to grid squares. This tells DMM you want to add an object of that Theme to the square. DMM is aware of the surrounding squares and will place objects accordingly. It'll even combine Theme Markers to place larger objects if possible. It's an extremely fast and efficient way of adding content to the map exactly where you want it!
Three different sized tables are placed using one Table Theme in seconds, exactly where you want them! It even sits the 1x2 table against the wall!
Object Tool (Hand placed objects): Use it to place an Object Theme anywhere on the map. These can be thought of as containers for similar objects. Select an Object Theme and click on the map to place the object. You can Move, Rotate, Scale, Duplicate and Randomise these objects. Use the arrow keys to cycle through similar objects in the Theme, either on the mouse pointer preview or the objects you have selected with the select tool.
This shows the Grey Stone Rubble Object Theme. It contains a large number of similar rubble objects that you can place when you have this theme added.
Grid Edges: These are simply the edge of a grid square. Draw an Edge Theme onto the map in Grid view using the simple Edge Drawing Tools (Walls, Doors, Windows) or use the Wall Fill tool to click on a Room to add Walls in one click. (Automated spawning tools like the Theme Marker Tool and the Room Tool react to what's near them, including these edge types). Also control the direction and height of the walls with the same tools.
You can also add directional edge themes that have spikes or castle crenulations included.
Biomes: Biomes can be painted onto the grey “Terrain Room” in “Biomes Mode". You can have up to 12 different Biome layers at a time on a single map. These make up the organic Terrain part of your map. A Biome is a set of textures, objects and rules that combine together to create a biome you might see in the natural world or a fantasy one. Forest Floor, Mud, Grass, Desert, Oak Trees, Swamp etc
A small sample of the Biomes available.
A mix of Forest Floor, Path and Oak Trees Biomes
A Mix of Underground, Fir Trees, Water, Grey Rock, Path and Forest Floor Biomes.
A mix of Path, Grey Rock, Scrub, Dead Trees and Road Biomes. (With a quick sprinkle of rock objects)
Paint Height: You can paint height onto your map in Height Mode. You have easy to use painting tools that can apply height onto the map squares, it's really fast and fun. Adding height adds a lot to a map! Some Biomes even react to the height on a map!
The orange rocky part of this image is actually the Sand and Long Grass Biomes set in transparent slope mode so when the Terrain Angle gets steeper you can see through to what Biomes have been painted underneath, which in this case is an orange sandstone Biome.
The Finished Product: 3D looks cool and all, but the real test is what the maps look like when they're rendered out to an image and what they're like to play on. When you're happy with your map you choose a resolution and hit the render button. This will save out your map to an image file. Dragon Map Maker is designed to create 2D maps for printing and using at your table or to be used in Virtual Table tops like FoundryVTT, Roll20, FantasyGrounds etc The final style is designed for maximum readability while still looking detailed and lush. But if you want to tweak something about the rendered look you can with the map render sliders. Here are some examples to check out, rendered directly from Dragon Map Maker. (Find full resolution versions in the Screenshot section above)
This is an example of a desert/jungle map. It includes water with depth and shore line foam, "slope" biomes that go transparent on a slope and show whats underneath them, in this case its orange sandy rock.
Another large map with a Tavern, Forest, Paths and Cave. Showing a range of Biomes used. Underground Rock for the Cave walls, Paths, Short Grass, Long Grass, OakBirch Forest, Scrub land and Rough water.
Will Dragon Map Maker be supported for Mac OS or Linux?
Curved Room shapes?
Can I export 3D maps or assets?
Does it render out animated maps?
Can it do Hex maps?
Sci-fi and modern assets?
Can it do Multi-level/floor/rooftop/treetop maps (ie FoundryVTT)?
Can it do World maps?
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Dragon Map Maker is a new App in Early Access for creating grid-based battle maps for Tabletop Roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Path Finder, Call of Cthulhu etc. It makes maps you can use on Virtual Tabletops like Roll20, FoundryVTT, FantasyGrounds and MapTools or you can print them yourself to use at your table. (Note: it’s not a Virtual Table Top). This is the Indie Commercial License version of Dragon Map Maker. Check the EULA section 3.3 for further details.
There are some simple elements that come together to make up a DMM map: Grid and Beauty views: You have two main view modes you can toggle between. Grid View is designed to be fast and responsive. Showing the bare minimum so the basics of the map can be read and changed quickly and easily. Beauty View is there to show the user how the map will look when it's rendered with everything spawned and visible.
Rooms: Rooms are what they sound like, Rooms! A house or dungeon is made up of rooms. You can create any number of rooms and simply paint those onto the grid squares. When you create a Room a corresponding button is created in the button list on the right side of the screen. You then assign different Room Themes to your Rooms.
Room Themes (Room based object spawning): You have a large selection of Room Themes to choose from. With more being added as development continues.
Theme Marker Tool (Clever object spawning only where you need it): As well as applying themes to your rooms, you can also add what’s called a Theme Marker to grid squares. This tells DMM you want to add an object of that Theme to the square. DMM is aware of the surrounding squares and will place objects accordingly. It'll even combine Theme Markers to place larger objects if possible. It's an extremely fast and efficient way of adding content to the map exactly where you want it!
Three different sized tables are placed using one Table Theme in seconds, exactly where you want them! It even sits the 1x2 table against the wall!
Object Tool (Hand placed objects): Use it to place an Object Theme anywhere on the map. These can be thought of as containers for similar objects. Select an Object Theme and click on the map to place the object. You can Move, Rotate, Scale, Duplicate and Randomise these objects. Use the arrow keys to cycle through similar objects in the Theme, either on the mouse pointer preview or the objects you have selected with the select tool.
This shows the Grey Stone Rubble Object Theme. It contains a large number of similar rubble objects that you can place when you have this theme added.
Grid Edges: These are simply the edge of a grid square. Draw an Edge Theme onto the map in Grid view using the simple Edge Drawing Tools (Walls, Doors, Windows) or use the Wall Fill tool to click on a Room to add Walls in one click. (Automated spawning tools like the Theme Marker Tool and the Room Tool react to what's near them, including these edge types). Also control the direction and height of the walls with the same tools.
You can also add directional edge themes that have spikes or castle crenulations included.
Biomes: Biomes can be painted onto the grey “Terrain Room” in “Biomes Mode". You can have up to 12 different Biome layers at a time on a single map. These make up the organic Terrain part of your map. A Biome is a set of textures, objects and rules that combine together to create a biome you might see in the natural world or a fantasy one. Forest Floor, Mud, Grass, Desert, Oak Trees, Swamp etc
A small sample of the Biomes available.
A mix of Forest Floor, Path and Oak Trees Biomes
A Mix of Underground, Fir Trees, Water, Grey Rock, Path and Forest Floor Biomes.
A mix of Path, Grey Rock, Scrub, Dead Trees and Road Biomes. (With a quick sprinkle of rock objects)
Paint Height: You can paint height onto your map in Height Mode. You have easy to use painting tools that can apply height onto the map squares, it's really fast and fun. Adding height adds a lot to a map! Some Biomes even react to the height on a map!
The orange rocky part of this image is actually the Sand and Long Grass Biomes set in transparent slope mode so when the Terrain Angle gets steeper you can see through to what Biomes have been painted underneath, which in this case is an orange sandstone Biome.
The Finished Product: 3D looks cool and all, but the real test is what the maps look like when they're rendered out to an image and what they're like to play on. When you're happy with your map you choose a resolution and hit the render button. This will save out your map to an image file. Dragon Map Maker is designed to create 2D maps for printing and using at your table or to be used in Virtual Table tops like FoundryVTT, Roll20, FantasyGrounds etc The final style is designed for maximum readability while still looking detailed and lush. But if you want to tweak something about the rendered look you can with the map render sliders. Here are some examples to check out, rendered directly from Dragon Map Maker. (Find full resolution versions in the Screenshot section above)
This is an example of a desert/jungle map. It includes water with depth and shore line foam, "slope" biomes that go transparent on a slope and show whats underneath them, in this case its orange sandy rock.
Another large map with a Tavern, Forest, Paths and Cave. Showing a range of Biomes used. Underground Rock for the Cave walls, Paths, Short Grass, Long Grass, OakBirch Forest, Scrub land and Rough water.
Will Dragon Map Maker be supported for Mac OS or Linux?
Curved Room shapes?
Can I export 3D maps or assets?
Does it render out animated maps?
Can it do Hex maps?
Sci-fi and modern assets?
Can it do Multi-level/floor/rooftop/treetop maps (ie FoundryVTT)?
Can it do World maps?
Dragon Map Maker is a new App in Early Access for creating grid based battle maps for Tabletop Roleplaying games such as D&D. It creates 2d maps you can use in Virtual Tabletops or print them yourself to use at your table. (Note: It’s not a Virtual Table Top)
We are not affiliated with IsThereAnyDeal.
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