Cartography
Oct. 28th, 2011 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
candidgameraI have a copy of the Campaign Cartographer software - for those of you who are unfamiliar, it's mapping software that can be used to create a map of a fantasy world, for use with a D&D campaign. (I suppose one can use to create maps of any sort, really, but its target audience is people running roleplaying games.)
I'd done a map of my campaign world ages ago, and it was okay - not great, but good for a first effort. And then two years ago, I bought a new PC. I transferred a bunch of data and programs over the first week I had it - and then the old PC's hard drive died. I thought I'd gotten everything important off of it, but.. as it turns out, I hadn't thought about the map in a while, and I'd missed it.
So it was gone. Well, this week, I have reconstructed it. Actually, I constructed an improved version of about half of it - the areas my game tends to focus on. Just finished last night, and I'm pleased as punch. Now I need to do a bigger one with more area coverage, and several smaller ones with detailed views of particular countries..
I might be at this a while.
I'd done a map of my campaign world ages ago, and it was okay - not great, but good for a first effort. And then two years ago, I bought a new PC. I transferred a bunch of data and programs over the first week I had it - and then the old PC's hard drive died. I thought I'd gotten everything important off of it, but.. as it turns out, I hadn't thought about the map in a while, and I'd missed it.
So it was gone. Well, this week, I have reconstructed it. Actually, I constructed an improved version of about half of it - the areas my game tends to focus on. Just finished last night, and I'm pleased as punch. Now I need to do a bigger one with more area coverage, and several smaller ones with detailed views of particular countries..
I might be at this a while.
