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14 MORE MOUNTAINS HERE: calthyechild.deviantart.com/ar…Image pack HERE: calthyechild.deviantart.com/ar…
EVEN MORE ICONS, PLUS A FONT, PLUS TEXTURES, PLUS CONTINENTS AND A TUTORIAL FOR HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN MAPS HERE: calthyechild.deviantart.com/ar…
All the free fantasy map generator related things I could find: feedthemultiverse.com/free-fan…
Realized you made a horrible mistake by trying to make your own map? My fantasy map portfolio is available at www.feedthemultiverse.com and I am available for hire.
converted this and the "I want more mountains" brush set for the GIMP with my permission and can be found here. thewhitecrayon.deviantart.com/…
Someone on Reddit converted these to WONDERDRAFT BRUSHES! www.reddit.com/r/wonderdraft/c…
Yes, you too can convert them to any program you would like and if I find them or you send em to me, they will be added.
It has come to my attention that this post shows up when you search for "How to make a Wondermap Map Brush" probably because of that comment above. The answer to how to make a wonderdraft map brush of course WAS NOT ANSWERED in this listing... UNTIL NOW. If you came here hoping for the answer to that question, here you go:
How to make a Wonderdraft Brush
First get a png of the brush you want. All Wonderdraft assets must be png files, nothing else will work. Now you must place it in the right spot in the Wonderdraft folder. Where I write "NAME-OF-PACK" name the group of brushes. For example you might put my brushes in a file labeled "Tiffany Munro" "Calthyechild" or "Feedthemultiverse". Where I write NAME-OF-ITEM-TUBE, this will be named after the GROUP of items that you are placing in that folder. For example, "Pine trees" "Palm trees" "Volcanoes" etc as the program will cycle through those images as you use the brush.
To make a BRUSH for landscape/sea texturing, place it in the primary Wonderdraft folder, that is C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/brushes/NAME-OF-PACK/(image files go here)
To make a TREE brush, place it in C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/sprites/NAME-OF-TREETUBE/(image files go here)
For the tree brush if you put multiple files in that folder, you can repeatedly put down several trees.
To make a MOUNTAIN brush, place it in C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/sprites/mountains/NAME-OF-MOUNTAIN-TUBE/(image files go here)
Mountain brushes are like tree brushes, you can put multiple in here.
To make a SYMBOL brush, C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/sprites/symbols/NAME-OF-SYMBOL-TUBE/(image files go here)
Symbol brushes aren't exactly the same but the place they go uses the same logic.
To make a PATH brush: C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/textures/paths/(horizontal looping image files go here)
These must be horizontal looping ribbons or it won't look right. Think of it as like a ribbon being laid out.
To make a TEXTURE fill:
Textures must be a seamless png. No other file type will work. They cannot be resized in the program, so please make them appropriate in size for the sort of texture if it were placed on a printer paper/standard screen map.
Ground textures go here: C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/textures/Ground/(image files go here)
Water textures go here: C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/textures/Water/(image files go here)
How to make a Wonderdraft frame:
Make a square png that is the full round of the frame with all sides/corner icons in place. Then place it here: C/(your username)/Roaming/Appdata/Wonderdraft/assets/NAME-OF-PACK/textures/Frames/(image files go here)
Want more Wonderdraft and DungeonDraft tools? Have money? My paid assets can be found on Cartography Assets! Check them out for Wonderdraft appropriate tools! cartographyassets.com/creator/…
Want assets for Roll20? marketplace.roll20.net/browse/…
Have you ever wanted to make a FANTASY MAP and been too lazy to make your own vaguely mountain and treeish shaped blobs?!?!?! NOW YOU TOO CAN MAKE A FANTASY MAP! Includes VAGUELY TRIANGULAR SHAPED BLOBS MASQUERADING AS MOUNTAINS! VAGUELY TRIANGULAR AND HAIRY SHAPES PRETENDING TO BE TREES! CIRCLES WITH A LINE ON THE BOTTOM PRETENDING TO BE A TREE! TERRIBLE-QUALITY HOUSE-ISH SHAPES! A DREADFUL LOOKING COMPASS ROSE! A FEW GRASS SHAPED BLOBS! AN ABSOLUTELY USELESS PILE OF ROCKS! AND MANY MORE SHAPES THAT YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER USE BUT YOU'LL DOWNLOAD ANYWAY!!!!!
Woot! I probably spent no more than 30 seconds on each brush. >_> It's up to you to add scatter effects and figure out how to use them.
As usual: free for use for absolutely everything and anything you feel like, EXCEPT for redistributing the brush pack (unless you converted it to another program and credited me). Yes! Use them commercially! Use them in your comic! Use them in your novel! Use them on your head! Don't credit me if you don't want to! Don't show me if you're too lazy or think it's awful! (but I will fave what's done with my brushes on DeviantArt if I am alerted to its presence.) Edit: I have seen my brushes show up seriously so many times since I made them (it's 2019 at the time of this edit) and all I've ever done is comment "omg I made those hi." Fear nothing, make maps.
If you want to support me, please link to my fantasy map portfolio at www.feedthemultiverse.com or my comic at www.stargazersgate.com .
A fave if you use them, might use them, or like them would be awesome.
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-reads the description for each brush on photoshop [dies laughing]- thank you, calthyechild, for making my day, when its not even 5AM yet. i am now hyper
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ARE YOU STILL HYPER? I kid, I kid. Thanks!
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LMFAO i love your description <3 im so downloading these. and using them.
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Haha, thanks. You're welcome!
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xD man I'm faving this for your comment alone 
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Bahahaha, yeah, the comment may have been slightly dripping with sarcasm... I think I may have been miffed that day that the brushes I spent all of 15 seconds per brush on were miles more popular than any art I'd ever done, spending hours and hours on. Come to think of it, I still am! DAMNIT. I'll never have a picture get 250 favs, but make a few shitty looking tree blocky shapes and people fall over themselves to download it!
Thanks. My ego is appeased.
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<3 I know EXACTLY how you feel. about 7 years ago when spring cleaning, i discovered baby mice that i then rescude from ants (I didnt notice them until they started squeaking) I took a photo of my hand full of baby mice. Yep, same thing -_- even now, almost a decade later,every day i have another fave on the damn mice 
So dont be too insulted! At least this is being faved and commented on so much because its useful!
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That description was very enjoyable to read XD
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Haha, glad you found it enjoyable!
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Thanks! You're welcome!
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I can use these commercially? I shall fav!
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Barring actually selling the brushes themselves, you can go ahead and use anything you make with them commercially. ^_^ Don't forget the extra mountains set!
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Extra mountain set?
Oh, will I be able to use them for my book?
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There's a bunch of extra mountains I made later in a new set linked in the author comments, since I made them a bit later I didn't want to merge the sets and have people who got it before get gyped. They're more awesome than the mountains in the initial doodly set.
All commercial use is allowed. Just don't sell the brush set as your own. 
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Oh lol
My computer never loads the author comments, so I didn't see that lol
I'll try to see it now. This new Da is really hard on my PC >.>
Okay, I won't. I'm not a thief
Thanks for creating this! I made the map, I just needed something to give it a better feel ^.^
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Oh, yeah, it's hard on my PC too. I basically only come on to answer comments now... and only some of those.
I don't think you're a thief, I was just answering my terms of use for commercial use.
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Will do! It'll help with fanfiction maps too lol
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Fanfic FTW. (thumbs up) I've never made a map for a fanfic, though... just original fiction.
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I do both, and people seemed to really liked the idea when I made a sampler out of GIMP
I just love writing and drawing lol
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Bwhahahaha... well, okay, I admit it. I amassed quite a collection of brushes I'll never use. And people keep raving about how amazing and useful my 5 minutes in Photoshop grass brush set is so I suspect there was a touch of smartassery in there... needless to say, thank you for appreciating my artistic observations on the brushes.
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Oh my goodness, yay! I found the version of these for GIMP first and was sad, because I haven't used GIMP for aaaages. But photoshop versions! Hooray! <3
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The GIMP edition links back to these ones. I let people convert my brushes if they so desire since I only have Photoshop installed now. 
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The more I use these the happier I am that you exist
Not in a stalker fashion more like that appreciative feeling we have towards those that help others.
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Haha, yeah. >.>
(stalks)
Nah, I love helping people.
I'm glad they could help you, really! Be sure to show me the end result if you upload it, I'd love to see what you did.
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Since you just saved me hours of work I am totally going to favorite this
Now I mean that it makes my thoughts all happy...not actually sexing a brain...I think that's illegal.
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Don't forget the mountain expansion pack for more mountains.
You're welcome, glad you like them.
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I'm still no cartographer but this has helped me progress in my story work greatly
It was a scary prospect.
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I'm glad that it helped you, then! I'm no cartographer either... I just went a bit nuts and studied cartography for a few days so that I could do it right. >_> I'm no good at it because, man, there's so much to know in cartography and I can't say that it's my prime interest.
Of course, you could always go the typography route: MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN RIVER RIVER LAKE MOUNTAIN TREE TREE TREE TREE TREE...
Yeah, I made a map like that once. >_>
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Those are my favourite brushes. I really love them and all the other brushes you've created.
Thanks for your work a thousand times!
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XD Well, I'm glad you like them! Have fun with my brushes!
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OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!
you have no idea how happy you have just made me!!
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Well, I have an idea--you have some pretty excited emoticons going on over there.
Thanks! Glad you like them.
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Even having them available (and so freely! 
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Well, I do hope you make your own fantasy map! It's fun to invision a world and then make it real... or a little realer, anyway. Besides, digital map-making, especially with brushes, is pretty easy.
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You're welcome! There's extra mountains in the mountains set too.
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The map making tutorial seems to be dead.
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