Hey all! I started running my first campaign in March and recently made a "world map"(hand-drawn) of the continent they inhabit. I was wanting to have the map overlaid with hexes so that we could have a better representation of distance on the map before finally giving it to the players. Anyone have any suggestions?
Scan the document into a digital format and overlay a hex grid
Abandon the hex grid entirely and just use scale. 1 inch/cm = X miles/kilometers. Figure out movement and distance with a ruler
Get a transparent plastic overlay on top of your map. This placesells some. Might not be best place to buy it, literally the first search result when I Googled - just shows they exist.
Get a digital hex grid image in a paint program and translate your map into digital format, simply by pour filling hexes with the appropriate terrain type color. More work, not as pretty a result, but a functional layout which is ( theoretically ) infinitely extendable off the edges.
Feed the map into a printer, and print a hex grid on top of the map. You only get one attempt at this one!
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You could always create your map from hex-shaped assets, such as these or these. This doesn't require any artistic talent or drawing ability on your part. Just a few minutes of stamping things down. You could even use your hand drawn world map as a temporary "tracing layer" guide that you stamp the hexes over.
"You could even use your hand drawn world map as a temporary "tracing layer" guide that you stamp the hexes over." How would i go about this? Because thats basically what i want to do, but i want to make certain it is to the same hex scale of the Sword Coast(I am a new DM and started with Lost Mines... and have begun to create my world around the sword coast area; a sort of mix between Faerun and my own homebrew setting.
There's a new feature in MapForge v1.0.9 called "Background Image".
Here's a pic a user sent me where they are part-way through recreating a map. The hexgrid is not perfectly aligned, but it shows what I mean well enough.
Hey all! I started running my first campaign in March and recently made a "world map"(hand-drawn) of the continent they inhabit. I was wanting to have the map overlaid with hexes so that we could have a better representation of distance on the map before finally giving it to the players. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!,
Chris
Some possibilities
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Thanks. I'll have to try a couple of these.
Inkarnate.com is a pretty good free map maker, you could recreate your map there and overlay it with a grid of hexes or squares easily.
You could always create your map from hex-shaped assets, such as these or these. This doesn't require any artistic talent or drawing ability on your part. Just a few minutes of stamping things down. You could even use your hand drawn world map as a temporary "tracing layer" guide that you stamp the hexes over.
"You could even use your hand drawn world map as a temporary "tracing layer" guide that you stamp the hexes over." How would i go about this? Because thats basically what i want to do, but i want to make certain it is to the same hex scale of the Sword Coast(I am a new DM and started with Lost Mines... and have begun to create my world around the sword coast area; a sort of mix between Faerun and my own homebrew setting.
Thanks btw!
Emund,
There's a new feature in MapForge v1.0.9 called "Background Image".
Here's a pic a user sent me where they are part-way through recreating a map. The hexgrid is not perfectly aligned, but it shows what I mean well enough.
thanks!