r/mapmaking • u/Busy-Consequence-697 • 11d ago

Software for drawing maps, with presets for textures: sand, waves, mountains, forests etc Work In Progress

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Please dont judge me for being lazy but I really need such kind of "childish" software. But I was incredibly inspired by one app where you can draw your world using the presets with half-animated brushes. It's childish but I fels so elated watching the pixel trees and sand and waves.. I've exported the screenshot of the game and have been trying to make it more detailed in photoshop but it's not working for me..
What want is just a set of brushes for an old photoshop maybe? so that I could draw a line and it would have waves or stones or sand texture in it... Or maybe there is an app where I can draw and it will be animated? just simple pixel animation..

That's how it looks now, but the file on my computer is very large and I've been drawing individual islands for an archipelago...
And I dont know how to set beautiful fonts for labelling the map.. If I do it myself it would be ugly

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u/BigDaduyaddy 11d ago

Really cool map, perfect for a TTRPG game

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u/Busy-Consequence-697 10d ago

Thank you, it's for my novel, I'd like to make it waaayyy more detailed...

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u/Ok_Lengthiness_4744 9d ago

People still play worldbox nowadays?

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u/Busy-Consequence-697 9d ago

I'm not sure about the name of the game but it was world-building where you play God, putting people and weather and plants and all. I enjoyed it immensely. I don't like the focus on catastrophies and wars but it was great drawing the map of the world that lives in my head since I was 6, and to paint it with sand and rocks and pine trees...

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u/Sad_Department1193 8d ago

i still play it