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Definitely less than back in the days. But you can't expect people to spend time on everything for free I think.

Search for Mike Schley assets on ProFantasy.com

@@Wonderdraft_Academy Thanks but I already own a copy of cities of schley, I was able to get the combined trees in the Mike Schley Shop in the Schleyscape category. The name of the token bundle is "The Forlorn Cottage"

You're welcome!

True! But then somehow I keep mistaken hills/mountains from the overlay with those I placed on the 'new real' map and putting my rivers through a hill/mountain asset :D

It was one of my earlier maps when things didn't go as intuitive as they go now, which means that indeed it took a lot of time :)

Not specifically for battle maps, but you can find some other tutorials of using wonderdraft in my channel

@@Wonderdraft_Academy I've just been having a browse of your content and I'm excited to see I can import my own assets. Hopefully I can get that to work as I'm not especially computer smart haha.

​@@snaithiusproductions8445 me neither! I'm actuality really bad with computers. But this is really not too hard!

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Thank you!

I've always been a map enthusiast. I think seeing a lot of maps from the real world helps a lot in knowing how things are 'supposed to be'. You can try to redraw an existing country for example, just to know how geography works and maps are displayed.

with the mouse scroll wheel while placing a river

It definitely saved me lots of frustration!

It is, but I use it mostly just for administration and all communication goes via email. I should definitely update and post something fresh indeed!

I don't really use a theme but manually do the settings. For this map, ground texture is imagination.

@@Wonderdraft_Academy thx!

Thank you!

If you're using tectonic plates, IMO, you're thinking about the wrong things in your map design (at least for RPG maps).

Not sure if you did it already, but you need to quit Wonderdraft altogether after checking those asset boxes. Reloading the map without quitting the program isn't enough

@@EdwinMenzo Ah, that did it! I feel silly now xD thanks!

Thank you!

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. But for Bleau, I kept the assets as they are. I mostly use the mountains and trees from the KMAlexander assets and not the symbols. For the mountains and trees I don't mind that they are grouped. It's way too nitpicky for me to want to pick each individual mountain for example. I just brush over an area and then a nice mountain range appears.

Glad it was helpful! It's not nerves really. I didn't prepare anything in advance and was talking while doing the things on the screen, so I was kind of more talking to myself than to an audience. I don't think I have the patience to prepare videos in advance and to edit them afterwards. I like making maps way more than making videos :)

@Wonderdraft_Academy I feel that. I'm just streaming to try to pull some cash while I work on my portfolio and watch my kid.

@@aneverdayhobbiest2837weird comment bro 😂

Check out profantasy.com, go to 'products', 'symbol sets', 'symbol set 5'. Should work there!

I'm not 100% sure what the issue is without more context, but one thing you could check if the assets are for 'custom colors', 'sample colors' or 'colored' (asset creators use different names for these types). 'Colored' means that you can't change the colors and you can only place the assets as they are. 'Sample colors' means that the assets don't have a color by themselves yet and you can color them using the Ground Color Brush, setting the filter to 'symbols' (or to 'trees' or 'mountains' depending on what assets you place). 'Custom colors' means that you can adjust 3 parts of the colors of an asset (underneath 'custom colors' in the menu on the right side of the screen when you're placing assets). Knowing this, to change the transparency of assets, it depends on which of the 3 types of assets you're using. If it's the 'colored' type, you can't change any of the color, so also not the transparency. For the 'custom colors' assets, you can make one (or more) of the 3 color choices transparent or not transparent by lowering the bottom of the 4 bars (marked with A) in the color selection. For 'sample colors' assets, you can use the Ground Color Brush, selecting the correct filter (symbol, tree or mountain) and choosing the color that you want (again, the lowest bar A is for transparency). Hope this helps!

Hey, thanks for the reply :) @@EdwinMenzo Unfortunately the problem still persists. I'm either too stupid to get your explanation, made some other mistake or the assets are just not usable atm - probably all three :/ I was trying to use the "Cartography Icons Pack" created by "Elven Tower", since his mountains are one of the few that look good as a kinda cliff-thingy imo. I tried working with the layer-option too but still couldn't bring them to work. Still, thank you for trying to help me. I really appreciate it :)

@@Artist2 Hey, I only now see that I made that previous reply under my private account, but just so you know: that reply was by me :) I didn't know that asset pack yet, but downloaded and tried them out. They're indeed transparent by default and in Wonderdraft you won't be able to color them. There's someone who made these assets ready for use in Wonderdraft and the creator (Elven Tower) allows the use of them as long as you've purchased the original ones. You can find them here: drive.google.com/file/d/1OXLLBxocRlTXF_o9HcnTEP8PGAgfUv2L/view

Holy shit!@@Wonderdraft_Academy Thank you so much!! <3

You're welcome @@Artist2

With the lasso tool. On the left of my screen at 1:21 you can see how to get there (1st to 'land' and then to the bottom option on the left). Once you made a selection, click somewhere on the screen and the selection will turn into a rectangular box. Going with the mouse somewhere on a side of that rectangle allows you to rotate the selection. Make sure that you're not working in an old Wonderdraft version in which this tool didn't exist yet.

@@Wonderdraft_Academy thanks for reply but it doesn't seem to work for me, after making the selection, i tried clicking on the selection and nothing happen, and clicking outside the selection, it deselects. I am using version 1.1.1 maybe that's why.

@@CATventurYes indeed, as I mentioned the functionality didn't exist in old version yet and 1.1.1 is a very old version. You can upgrade it for free.

Thanks a lot!! I actually rarely use the territory tool myself as indeed, it's not the most convenient tool to use (mostly the fact that it doesn't 'snap' in line with the coastline). It's quite a time-consuming effort and that combined with the fact that I'm not a big fan of political maps for fantasy worlds makes that I rarely use it (borders are a relatively modern invention and we - modern humans - are used to seeing borders, but I prefer basing fantasy maps on Medieval or older eras, in which there were no political borders yet).

Hey, what's the size (resolution) of the canvas you are using? Of course I can't be sure, but it sounds like you're using a relatively small canvas for your map. While the font size differs greatly for the different default fonts of Wonderdraft, it sounds like a very small font to me (I usually don't go below 24 on a canvas of 4960x3508). So you saying that a font of above 12 is too big and covers too much of other areas, makes me think that your canvas size is much smaller than what I usually use. An A4 canvas (3508x2480) is still fine to work with, but I wouldn't go below that. This A4 size is meant for good quality printing on A4 size paper (standard printing paper) so going below that, means that your map is intended for a smaller size than standard printing paper which could explain why things are getting blurry and too small. You can also try using a different font. Some fonts are much more bold than others. And finally, you could try to work with a (non-transparent) font outline in the same color as your font, so that the letters become thicker. Good luck!

The use of the tablet is mostly about saving time but it does also help a bit in getting it better spaced out indeed. With the tablet and pen it's easier to 'fill' an area rather than moving the cursor in lines. With a mouse you mostly move it from A to B and the mountains appear on a line between A and B. With a pen on a tablet you 'zigzag' (like scratching or I don't know exactly how to describe it in English) between A and B so instead of a line, you get an area filled with mountains. Another tip in case you didn't know: for the trees and mountains brush, on the right side of the screen you can change the placement rate and placement density. Playing around with that may also help you achieving what you're looking for.

Thank you! Hoping to get back to making new videos soon!

I usually make my maps on a 3508 x 4960 canvas. At the end, you can always resize it to something smaller if needed for whichever reason. For reference: normal A4 printing paper at decent quality resolution would require a 3508 x 2480 canvas. So what you use (1920 x 1080) is actually quite small.

@@Wonderdraft_Academy Oh ok. I thought I could resize with that resolution Idk I'm not great at this stuff. Yeah, my world is larger then Earth so I need a bigger canvas. I saw one on TH-cam guy went even higher pixels. I don't need too detailed as I just need it to be big enough to fit two pages side by side in a Novel. I can always do less details for that I guess , but to more online. Thank you, really like the videos. Saw you on Reddit

@@TheVoidofNothing11 Of course you can always go larger than the resolution I gave, but I most often don't find it necessary. Especially not for a novel where you have limited space (1 or 2 pages) anyway and you should focus of highlighting the important things instead of cluttering it with details. And don't forget that for example, putting large scale mountains on an A2 canvas results in the same thing as putting small scale mountains on an A3 or A4 canvas. If you use huge assets on a huge canvas, it will still look like a small map without a lot of details. To make a world map feel large, it's more important to size down the assets rather than upscaling the canvas (unless you want to hang it as a poster on the wall).

After clicking on 'select area' you should be able to draw a rectangle around the part of the map you want to make a detailed map of. If you don't get the option to do that, it's best to report a bug on the Wonderdraft discord server.

Thank you!

What do you mean?

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If you go to cartographyassets.com and search for Lapis, you will find them. There are two packs of trees and mountains by Lapis (which I combined into one folder, so I don't know which tree is from which pack).

@@Wonderdraft_AcademyAwesome, Thanks!

When you double (mouse) click the river ends

@@Wonderdraft_Academy thx!

@@Juan41374 You need to have a land mass for this to work lol

Thank you for this series! Ive been struggling and learning nothing from others just plopping random symbols without explanation; This series is just what I needed!

Thank you!

Thank you! Those city assets are made by Mike Schley and available through ProFantasy. It was some time ago that I got them, but if I remember correctly, you do need to purchase the ProFantasy software before being able to get access to those symbols.

@@Wonderdraft_Academy Tyvm

Thank you! I plan on doing a dedicated video about colouring soon!

Hey, sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. 'Roaming cartel'? If you mean to delete the default Wonderdraft assets, then you probably shouldn't. It's not possible to do that similarly to custom assets.

@@Wonderdraft_Academy ye i was talking about to delete the standard symbols (the ones that take the colour of the ground) because after all the asset that i have installed it gives me load time everytime i open the symbols buttom thx for the answer

@@Darthandrea Those you can't delete indeed. But the default symbols shouldn't be causing that much trouble. It's usually the (bigger) custom assets that do. In the top 'assets' menu you can uncheck assets that you're not using in your map to prevent them from loading and slowing down your program (make sure to not uncheck assets that are used on the map)

Thanks for the feedback. That's the first time I hear that as normally, I usually get remarks that with my voice I should become a drill sergeant in the army :D I think it's a combination of being too far from the mic (and quality of the mic) plus me talking while mapping, which means I'm not fully aware of how I talk as I'm thinking about how to map. I'll see what I can do about it for future videos!

Thank you! Today I'm posting a new video in which I talk you through the process of creating a world map from start to finish. In that one, you can see how I do the coloring. The key to proper blending is to just always set the opacity at the lowest possible (except when using white for snow). When holding the mouse longer, you can still get the color without transparency, but at least you're in control. When I'm coloring ground, it's a lot of 'click click click click' with the mouse (quick strokes) rather than holding the mouse button. Color blending is about blending 2 transparent colors, not about blending two opaque colors.

Glad you liked it!

Hey Robert, I don't have an ipad (or tablet) myself, so I don't dare to give you any advice on that. The minimum requirements for using Wonderdraft are given on its website (wonderdraft.net) so that would be the best place to check. What I do know, is that you should definitely take the requirements serious. It's not 'just' a drawing program where you draw and color. Wonderdraft works with assets which means you're basically adding hundreds or thousands little PNG images onto your map. I have quite a decent (gaming) laptop and even then, when working on a large and detailed map, you can clearly hear and notice it's working very hard to handle it. So I don't think it's necessarily that ipads aren't supported by default, it's just that they in general don't have the specs needed to run software like wonderdraft smoothly. As long as you stick to small maps without many details and not use custom assets, it might work. But again, I'm just a user without an ipad, so no guarantees. As for the output: you own your exported maps with full commercial license to use (as long as you didn't add any custom assets to the map for which you don't have a license to use them).

Thank you for the reply. Ah, it seems like a heavy program. I see now the requirements. So Inkarnate owns all maps no matter if I pay for the pro version? So if I want to publish a fantasy novel they would somehow own those maps?

@@robertlindberg815 No idea. I don't own and have never used Inkarnate, so can't help you with that.

Thank you! In my more recent videos I also actually talk to explain what I'm doing :) The trees are from Lapis and available on cartographyassets.com

As long as there's interest and as long as I have time, I probably will!

I'm very glad to hear that! I'm trying to pick topics that are asked a lot on social media or elsewhere.

Definitely! Will put it on my list of one of the next to-do videos!

The canvas size is 2480 x 3358

You're welcome!