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Vintyri™ Raster Mapping
Tutorial for Fractal Mapper™ 9 |
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Fractal
Mapper 8 users: The Vintyri
Raster Mapping Tutorial for Fractal
Mapper 9 will
not work with Fractal Mapper 8. |
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Everything free, open game
content! NOTE: When you download the tutorial package, you
receive a file named FM9Tutorial.zip. It contains two files named Setup.exe
and MUST_READ_ME.txt. Before you run Setup.exe, be sure to read the file named MUST_READ_ME.txt. Certain
requirements must be fulfilled, and certain decisions must be made before you
can install the tutorial and its many accessory files successfully. The instructions are in MUST_READ_ME.txt. |
Raster Mapping with Fractal Mapper 9 This
PDF tutorial takes you step-by-step through the various methods of raster
mapping to produce maps like the one (left) on the cover of the book. It can be used as a learn-while-doing
tutorial with instructions for each step taken in producing the sample
maps. The download package also
includes finished map files of all the samples in the book. Diverse themes also are explored: How does one make symbols and fill patterns
for FM9? When the shape of the graphical objects is
irregular, how does one make the outer white areas transparent? And much more. The
tutorial tells you how to do a needle-in-the-haystack search for what you
need, and, if you still haven't found it, where and how to search for
it. You also may need graphical
mapping objects that fit a special theme, one that isn't covered at all in
the collections below. The tutorial
tells you how to find them, regardless of whether they're free or commercial
products that you can buy. With
step-by-step instructions and fully illustrated with screen shots of every
operation, the user makes the first nine of the FM9 maps shown below. The
10th map is a special case dealing with imported, commercial
mapping tools. Among commercial
vendors, ProFantasy Ltd. in London
now has made all its symbol sets compatible with FM9. Particularly interesting
for game masters running Dungeons &
Dragons® campaigns are symbol sets 4, 5 and 6, which give the FM9 cartographer a large selection of
tools created by D&D® cartographer
Mike Schley to make D&D-style
maps. The 10th sample map
below was made with FM9 and ProFantasy Symbol Sets 4 and 5. To make this map with FM9, you must purchase and install these symbol sets. In
addition, in this tutorial, one learns how to make one's own symbols, how to
add transparent parts to symbols that are not rectangular, how to define
scale property, etc. And it's all
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For an enlarged view, click the map with the
right mouse key!
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