Rare I comment on videos but literally stumbled onto your channel and I got to say. This is the most ingenious way to make a fantasy map and this got me really excited to see what I can do with this. Thanks for sharing this!
so... i just stumbled to this video while browsing landscape tuts and stuff for gaea to use for an Unreal project. and half way through i thought "wait, i got wonderdraft back in 2018 for D&D and have not used it since! this video is awesome - unexpected and needed *heart *
@@Kyrios_Eustace welcome to the channel! That's pretty much how it came about, my love of DnD, then realising the awesome maps you can make with tools like Gaea 😊
@@dakkon77blackblade20 Create a new layer just for your rivers in Photoshop or whatever software you're using, and edit the mask just with the brush tool (100% hardness), following the rivers by hand. As you get closer to the river sources, decrease the brush size (use your map as a guide if it already does this). The end result we want is an image that it white background, with the rivers in black
This is really cool! One thing I noticed though is there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the height map from wonderdraft and the locations of the 'mountains' you make using the perlin. Do you have a workflow for manually adding mountains or elevation to specific areas in Gaea2?
You can download Gaea2 for non commercial use without purchasing a licence, the limitation as I mentioned is that you are limited to exporting heightmaps at 1k resolution. You can replicate the workflow I use in Photoshop using a free alternative such as GIMP www.gimp.org/ Let me know if you have any issues
This is true, I now prefer Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator for creating randomised starting terrain. I would say the wonderdraft workflow makes more sense if you already have a map in wonderdraft that you want to use, or if you want to hand draw the starting landmass (could also be done with the draw node in Gaea, but probably wouldn't be as easy)
Rare I comment on videos but literally stumbled onto your channel and I got to say. This is the most ingenious way to make a fantasy map and this got me really excited to see what I can do with this. Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you so much, it all started because I wanted to be able to 3D print a campaign map. A TH-cam rabbit hole later, and here we are!
so... i just stumbled to this video while browsing landscape tuts and stuff for gaea to use for an Unreal project.
and half way through i thought "wait, i got wonderdraft back in 2018 for D&D and have not used it since! this video is awesome - unexpected and needed *heart *
@@Kyrios_Eustace welcome to the channel! That's pretty much how it came about, my love of DnD, then realising the awesome maps you can make with tools like Gaea 😊
This is a really awesome workflow and very clever utilization of tools. Thanks so much for sharing
Glad you liked it! So happy to hear it's useful
Awesome stuff - used a very similar workflow to create my 3D world map using gaea 1 - def need to get my hands on gaea2.
It's still a little buggy right now, but it's very powerful!
I have been looking for a video about gaea. Thank you very much.
@@skywu3098 I hope it's useful for you!
Been waiting for something like this for a long time. Thanks for putting it together!
You're very welcome, I hope the series is useful!
This is great. Many thanks for starting this series!
Glad you enjoy it!
Love the content and it's super cool! Excited to see part 2!
@@ponnyou8336 Thank you 😊 Part 2 is mostly done already so watch this space 😉
@@KilroysKartography this version of Gaea is FREE? or 200$ thank you
Great video 😮... Just today I looked for exactly this kind of workflow 😊
Great timing! Really pleased to hear you're enjoying the tutorial ☺️
@@KilroysKartographyWhile I try to wait for your videos.... How did you go about tracing existing rivers in source maps?
@@dakkon77blackblade20 Create a new layer just for your rivers in Photoshop or whatever software you're using, and edit the mask just with the brush tool (100% hardness), following the rivers by hand. As you get closer to the river sources, decrease the brush size (use your map as a guide if it already does this). The end result we want is an image that it white background, with the rivers in black
@@KilroysKartography Thx for the quick reply! do you merge that layer with the initial hightmap or is this just a map in the end?
@@dakkon77blackblade20 Export it as a separate image, this will allow us more flexibility in Gaea2 later
This is really cool! One thing I noticed though is there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the height map from wonderdraft and the locations of the 'mountains' you make using the perlin.
Do you have a workflow for manually adding mountains or elevation to specific areas in Gaea2?
@@BenExcell Check out part 4 for this type of workflow 😊
IS this ALL paid software?
You can download Gaea2 for non commercial use without purchasing a licence, the limitation as I mentioned is that you are limited to exporting heightmaps at 1k resolution. You can replicate the workflow I use in Photoshop using a free alternative such as GIMP www.gimp.org/
Let me know if you have any issues
Can you share this heightmap?
Here you go 😊 drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ugEKP985O_MHtN1lebuoUvZCZJzynmcN
I'm sure Wonderdraft isn't doing anything that smart . You could definately build everything in gaea
This is true, I now prefer Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator for creating randomised starting terrain. I would say the wonderdraft workflow makes more sense if you already have a map in wonderdraft that you want to use, or if you want to hand draw the starting landmass (could also be done with the draw node in Gaea, but probably wouldn't be as easy)