Conmap

If you've thought about the geography of your planet, you'll eventually need a ConMap to organize the information. This section deals with how to make good, realistic, and eye-pleasing maps. Table of Contents Getting Ready Projections The Basic Outline Nations Mountains Thematic Maps Finishing Touches Examples of Conworld Maps Computerized mapping Mapping software tools provide a wide array of options for creating maps at many different levels as well as rendered scenes of landscapes based on those maps. Free software TerraJ by Martin Smith, an open source Java cross-platform solar system generator combining Fractal Planet, StarGen, and Planet Generator GeoMorph relief editor G.Projector by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a free cross-platform Java application that can reproject a map from a cylindrical projection to a Mercator projection, for example AutoRealm is an open source mapping utility for creating maps of castles, dungeons, and cities Commercial software L3DT by Bundysoft, a comprehensive commercial terrain modeling solution. Fractal Mapper by Nbos Software, targeted at maps more similar to human-drawn maps AstroSynthesis by Nbos Software, a star-mapping tool that maps the positions of groups of nearby stars in 3D Daylon Leveller by Daylon Graphics, a terrain sculpting application for Windows Terragen by Planetside Software, a terrain generator and rendering application Unknown status Wilbur by Joe Slayton, a free digital terrain sculpting application for Windows The Galaxy galaxy generator by Dmytry Lavrov External links map tools wiki Terrain building tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 from ME-DEM, the Middle Earth Digital Elevation Model project Geography Conworld series C 0%