Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb;450193I like your maps, Benny.

Thanks, mate.

So. . . . Map stuff.

I'm considering starting up a new campaign with my world, Mimm. Mimm a world of extreme fantasy, where high-tech humans have ventured in through a system of alien gates.

To introduce players to my world, I've created some interactive maps with Flash. Hopefully I'll have a main map with a bunch of sub-maps which you can access through clicking on the proper areas. Before going too far with this project though, I wanted to get some feed back. If there are some things I should be doing differently, I'd like to know now, before I do all the work of finishing all the maps.

On both the Sea of Dreams map and the Phadros Desert map, there is something that would be nice for some specific feed back on: I made a lot of the area labels only appear with a mouse roll over. The mouse-over idea initially seemed good to me, but it is kind of annoying in execution---the advantage is that I could fit in large amounts of text which would clutter up an ordinary map. From my own experiences with this, I may just end up with going for a more normal map with text you can see, without doing a mouse over. Also, I'm not sure if some of the labels are too hard too read (that is one of the problems with making colorful maps, and something distorting text to fit the right contours.


Anyway, here are the links to the files for the maps (although you can reach the other two if you just start with the main map). Right now the only links that actually work are the "Sea of Dreams" link on the main map, and the "Phadros Desert" link off the Sea of Dreams map.

http://www.siliconstorm.net/maps/MimmSphere.html

http://www.siliconstorm.net/maps/seaofdreams.html

http://www.siliconstorm.net/maps/phadrosdesert.html

Wow... some really great maps!

The flash and mouse-overs work good so long as there is contrast between the mouse-over text and the background map. Looked great from here!

The Italian? FR style map, remarkably excellent as well.

I've been working more over the last year on minis instead of maps, however you'll find a few maps worked on in the last year on the blog here:

GameDev Online



The Misty Caverns ~Fantasy



The Twelve Colonies.... Battlestar Atlantica

I love this thread, its the kind of thread one wants to see here.


I'll note, though, that this kind of image (or lack thereof) is not:

Quote from: Reckall;450200A map of a fantasy world I created for a comic book (in Italian). Never used it for gaming, though:

(EDITED out fucking image that everyone can see but me)

Might be a little better if it was scaled down or posted as a link, though it is pretty cool as a map.

One idea I'm considering now that I've cleared some GMing off my plate is running a pick-up game. I'm in a situation where I've got three actual groups of people to play with, and a cluster of maybe 4-5 more who are part-time or players who will only play in low commitment games. As a result I've been considering an old-school sandbox style pick-up game, like the West Marches (probably using OpenQuest).

To prep for that, I've been using the Dizzy Dragon Dungeon Generator and Print Screening the resulting images to have a ready supply of back-up dungeons.

Here's three of them, in order of increasing size:

http://imgur.com/6b5QV

http://imgur.com/6hvBb

http://imgur.com/aD3AL

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;450405Might be a little better if it was scaled down or posted as a link, though it is pretty cool as a map.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of the "freudian" nature of my post :eek: I have edited it.

Does anyone knows what image hosting service is the best for posting on this forum? I used Imageshack, but for some reason I'm unable to post a thumbnail or a preview: it is either the full image or the link.

Now if Pundit could edit his quote including the same image and nuke it, that'd be awesome.

I resize my images and upload both original and resized versions, personally (I then put the resized version in my posts - a width of 800 pixels does it for a forum).

Quote from: Reckall;450422Sorry, I wasn't aware of the "freudian" nature of my post :eek: I have edited it.

Does anyone knows what image hosting service is the best for posting on this forum? I used Imageshack, but for some reason I'm unable to post a thumbnail or a preview: it is either the full image or the link.

I use photobucket. You can resize images there and save smaller copies as needed. Usually I'll link like an 800px wide image, and leave another link for those folks that want to browse the hi-res hi-bandwidth imagery.

Also, happened to really like Benoist's Ptolus city map, especially the side view, which really emphasized the spatial geography of the city.

Quote from: GameDaddy;450292... The Misty Caverns ~Fantasy ...

Excellent map!

Just to be sure everyone was seeing what I was seeing, there was just the picture of the frog in an icecube and the notice: "domain unregistered, to view register at" blahblahblah, right?

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPundit;450631Just to be sure everyone was seeing what I was seeing, there was just the picture of the frog in an icecube and the notice: "domain unregistered, to view register at" blahblahblah, right?

RPGPundit

No, it was / is a giant comic book map. Reckall transferred it to a link, but your post still has the original image up.

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;450633No, it was / is a giant comic book map. Reckall transferred it to a link, but your post still has the original image up.

This. Please edit your quote out, Pundit.

Quote from: GameDaddy;450292The flash and mouse-overs work good so long as there is contrast between the mouse-over text and the background map. Looked great from here!

Thanks.

I terms of the mouse-over thing, I was just a bit concerned that it might be hard on somebody trying to find a specific place on the map---yeah, you can keep rolling the mouse over everything, but to some extent it is easier to just be able to see stuff.

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;450633No, it was / is a giant comic book map. Reckall transferred it to a link, but your post still has the original image up.

I'll edit it, but then can someone explain why the fuck what I see is that "domain unregistered, to view register at" thingy?

RPGpundit

Quote from: RPGPundit;450753I'll edit it, but then can someone explain why the fuck what I see is that "domain unregistered, to view register at" thingy?

RPGpundit

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Could be any number of things. Possibly it's blocked in Uruguay for some reason?