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New Upcoming Feature: World/Kingdom Road Generator

By Joe Posted on July 8, 2024 Posted in New Features Tagged with new upcoming feature, road generator

Time to show yet another new feature in the next big update: a road generator for world/kingdom maps! With this small tool, you’re able to give it a road color, road style (whether you want straight lines, curved lines, or …

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New Upcoming Feature: Improved Empire/Nation Generator

By Joe Posted on July 7, 2024 Posted in New Features Tagged with generate nations/empires, new upcoming feature

Time to show off another new feature coming up in the new major Worldographer update!  The existing generator to place an empire or nation on the map is arbitrarily limited to have just 5 cities or towns. In the next …

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New Upcoming Feature: Colored Control Points

By Joe Posted on June 14, 2024 Posted in New Features Tagged with control points, new upcoming feature

This feature coming in the next large update to Worldographer is pretty minor. But it is just one example of a slew of minor improvements that make collectively make a big difference! When drawing lines, in Worldographer you can create …

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New Upcoming Feature: Setup Terrain & Feature Categories

By Joe Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in New Features Tagged with categories, new upcoming feature

Back to highlighting some of the new features to look forward to in Worldographer’s next big update! When you add custom features & terrain to the software, you’ll get to pick a category for each.  You will also be able …

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New Upcoming Feature: Add Battlemat Rooms Instantly!

By Joe Posted on May 16, 2024 Posted in New Features Tagged with battlemat, instant rooms, new upcoming feature

Wouldn’t it be cool to pick a room type and a few features of that room (size, doors, windows, furniture style) and then click on the map where you want that room and it auto-magically added it?  In the next …

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New Upcoming Feature: More Pre-Set Rotate Options

By Joe Posted on April 15, 2024 Posted in New Features Tagged with new upcoming features, rotate

Back with news about another new feature in Worldographer!  This isn’t earth-shattering, but it is an example of a minor change that adds up to a big UI improvement… Now next to the Feature’s Rotation spinner is a drop down …

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How To Access The Icons Built Into Worldographer

By Joe Posted on April 13, 2024 Posted in How To Tagged with icons, map icons

Occasionally we’re asked where the icons are within the Worldographer download and how to get them. The easiest was is: Download the Java/Jar version of Worldographer from the Download page. Rename the end of the file from .jar to .zip …

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Worldbuilding 101: Start With What Is Essential & What Is Inspiring

By Joe Posted on February 17, 2024 Posted in Worldbuilding

Over on the main Inkwell Ideas site, we have a new post about Worldbuilding.  It isn’t Worldographer (or fantasy map-making) specific, but I do think folks who use Worldographer would like it. The key points in the article are: Spend …

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“Importing” a Donjon Fantasy World Map Into Worldographer

By Joe Posted on February 8, 2024 Posted in How To Tagged with donjon, trace underlay

Recently someone in our Discord asked for help importing a Donjon fantasy world map into Worldographer.  While we don’t have a direct way to import their maps (nor do I think they provide the raw data) you can trace the …

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Our Massive Map Icons Index Was Just Updated

By Joe Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Icons Tagged with map icons

Inkwell Ideas has made a huge number of map icons over the past several years thanks to our Patreon. Via the Patreon, each month we make 100+ total icons in 4 styles: isometric world/kingdom, classic world/kingdom, settlement, & battlemat based …

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