Having fun with mapping ~ Yggsburgh/Blacktooth Ridge

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:37 pm

Using Hexmapper, I threw together a crude map of the Blacktooth Ridge and Outremere (now New Aenochia) putting in Yggsburgh and a few other points of interest for my campaign.

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
Hmm, I see photobucket squished my map somewhat, hopefully y'all can see it OK.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:44 pm

Could you just e-mail it to me? This pic makes my eyes hurt.
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:52 pm

Treebore wrote:
Could you just e-mail it to me? This pic makes my eyes hurt.

Will do. Say, any chance you could host it? Then I can show the full size.

Thanks.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:00 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Will do. Say, any chance you could host it? Then I can show the full size.

Thanks.

I'll see if my wife will do it. She knows how to upload it, etc...

IE she is our webmaster.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:06 pm

Looks good to me. Is there a specific reason why you made rivers so much more prevelant?
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:13 pm

Treebore wrote:
I'll see if my wife will do it. She knows how to upload it, etc...

IE she is our webmaster.

Thanks, that'd be great. The map is only a MB or so (jpg).
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:15 pm

Treebore wrote:
Looks good to me. Is there a specific reason why you made rivers so much more prevelant?

Hey, yeah accident. I didn't realize until I was almost done that I could have drawn the rivers instead of using a hex tile!!
I may just make a bigger one. Darn thing is addicting and fun to use, even though it's somewhat crude. I've played around with some of the other mapping tools and may just try them when I finish this one.

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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:33 pm

Nice job Rhu! I love it... it makes we want to connect Yggsburgh and HH togheter with Hexmapper now. Nice work.
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CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:10 pm

That does look neat!
I didn't know Yggsburgh was close to Blacktooth Ridge.
Edit: nvm, please. I'm up past my bedtime
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moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:32 pm

This is cool... and this is also the first time I've heard of this little program. Google yielded those secrets and I'm downloading it.

Are the tiles all part of the base program or did you get other ones from other sources?

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:33 pm

Omote wrote:
Nice job Rhu! I love it... it makes we want to connect Yggsburgh and HH togheter with Hexmapper now. Nice work.
-O

Thanks, it's a fun little program.
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Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:33 pm

Very nice -- would like to see the non-squished version, too.
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:34 pm

CharlieRock wrote:
That does look neat!
I didn't know Yggsburgh was close to Blacktooth Ridge.
Edit: nvm, please. I'm up past my bedtime

Thanks. Technically, Yggs isn't part of the World of Airhde, but one can make it so if one wishes. Heh, and add it stuff from all the other great campaign/module worlds!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:36 pm

moriarty777 wrote:
This is cool... and this is also the first time I've heard of this little program. Google yielded those secrets and I'm downloading it.

Are the tiles all part of the base program or did you get other ones from other sources?

M

Thanks, M. There was an enhanced set of tiles that didn't come with the program. I'll try and find the link.

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Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:40 pm

I'd like to try out this mapping program with custom tiles too so if you guys have links to the necessary resources, that would be great.
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moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:57 pm

I believe this would be the link to the actual program:
http://home.paonline.com/zaikoski/ak/TOOLS.HTM

As for the enhanced tiles... I saw mention of some on En World (while I was tracking down the program) but I don't know if they are it.

M

EDIT 1: A link to those Enhanced tiles mentioned on En World

EDIT 2: Link removed as it was useless.
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:13 pm

moriarty777 wrote:
As for the enhanced tiles... I saw mention of some on En World (while I was tracking down the program) but I don't know if they are it.

M

EDIT: A link to those Enhanced tiles mentioned on En World
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/dnd/Hexes.zip

Thanks M. Those hex tiles don't seem to work with this program.

Here's a link to the ones supported by Hexmapper:
http://www.tridrpg.org/admin/dmtools.php

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moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:34 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Thanks M. Those hex tiles don't seem to work with this program.

Here's a link to the ones supported by Hexmapper:
http://www.tridrpg.org/admin/dmtools.php

Thanks... I've removed the offending link from my post and grabbed the one you linked instead.

I'll be having some fun with this!

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Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:37 pm

Wish I could load that at work and mess around but alas, network admins won't like that very much. Looking forward to checking this out once I'm home, definitely want to plot out my campaign world (at least the part the players are in now) and make more sense of the geography as I merge Inzae, Airhde and Yggsburgh, plus some other stuff, together.

Thanks for the links!
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CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:32 pm

Is there a commercial site for these? Those versions don't seem to want to run. Says I am missing a file. (like, one your supposed to buy or something?)
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moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:23 pm

CharlieRock wrote:
Is there a commercial site for these? Those versions don't seem to want to run. Says I am missing a file. (like, one your supposed to buy or something?)

You'll need the Visual Basic Runtime stuff:

Here it is:
http://home.paonline.com/zaikoski/ak/AK ... br60un.zip

There was also this note on the page with the original program:

Quote:
Each ZIP file contains only the program and necessary supporting files ... if you've ever installed a VB 6.0 application before, this is probably all you need. These smaller packages do not come with an installer, so please make sure to unzip the HexMapper and the Town Designer with the -d (or Use Folder Names) option; they will end up under a directory called AKS. A Help file is included in all but the Random City Generator.

I haven't tried to install it myself yet so those were the only two things I could think of to help you out. The program itself was freeware.

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Alcahaelas · Post by **Alcahaelas** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:23 pm

I created a rough map of the general area my players are moving through. Looks cool and they liked it, helps them "visualize" the lands they're moving through. About 30 miles/hex, 55x30 hexes I think, so a pretty good chunk of the world.

Works nicely, very simple to use--thanks again for the resources!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:06 pm

Alcahaelas wrote:
I created a rough map of the general area my players are moving through. Looks cool and they liked it, helps them "visualize" the lands they're moving through. About 30 miles/hex, 55x30 hexes I think, so a pretty good chunk of the world.

Works nicely, very simple to use--thanks again for the resources!

Hey that's great and glad you got it working.

Hopefully CharlieRock can get it working as well.

I had forgotten there were a couple of weird issues with the VB runtime stuff and the program on my XP box comes up with a couple of boxes as though the install program is trying to come up, and so I cancel them and eventually the program loads and works fine.

I also have it on my Win98 machine and it works fine.

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Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:43 am

Have you guys seen the Hexmapper Haven Yahoo group?
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:42 am

Emryys wrote:
Have you guys seen the Hexmapper Haven Yahoo group?

Thanks, I'll check it out!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:37 am

Rhuvein wrote:
Thanks M. Those hex tiles don't seem to work with this program.

Here's a link to the ones supported by Hexmapper:
http://www.tridrpg.org/admin/dmtools.php

Hey Moriarty ~ apologies. Those hexes and some others I've found will work with Hexmapper. Last night I looked at the Hexmapper help files and they explain how to add hexes. One must edit a hex.txt file and add the .bmp hex file names.

So other hexes or custom ones that you create can be used.

My bad, sorry.

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Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:10 am

Is there a way to get a copy of the full size map?
*looks nice
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Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:05 am

Nice looking map!
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moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:21 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Hey Moriarty ~ apologies. Those hexes and some others I've found will work with Hexmapper. Last night I looked at the Hexmapper help files and they explain how to add hexes. One must edit a hex.txt file and add the .bmp hex file names.

So other hexes or custom ones that you create can be used.

My bad, sorry.

Truth to tell, I haven't had time to play around with it but thanks for the heads up. I went back to grab those extra hexes (for when I do).

M
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:58 pm

Thanks for the comments on the map.

I put the map on another hosting site, let's see if it will show the map in full.
http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=btryggsyc7.jpg

OK, click the link and then click the image.

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