Does anyone know any good, free, preferably no-download-required, cartography software? I'll explain my reasons for all of this in the following paragraphs:
Good is easy enough to get. I don't want my map looking awful.
Free is because I'm a kid without a job and no means of earning my own money, and my parents are too strict to go for the "I'm underage so give me money for stuff".
Preferably no-download is because I have a small laptop with not that much download space available.
Software is because the entire group is online, and we've never met in person and are scattered all around to globe, so I can't draw and photocopy handouts.
Anyone know anything that meets this criteria?
One Word: HEXOGRAPHER! If you GOOGLE "free hexographer map" several good sites pop up. I LOVE inkwellideas.com (I think that is the website). They have a FREE version that is very user friendly. It does involve a download but it is just for the execute command so I don't think it is too large of a file. The maps are created in an .hxn format which can only be viewed/edited through their freeware BUT you have the option to export into a .png format which can be viewed and printed! And even upload on this site to share!
Thanls. I just clicked the first one that showed up when I did a search for hexographer, and for what I'm doing it's okay. I'm just starting work on the region right now, and then I might go and do a city.
The first thing that pops up when I search hexographer is sort of glitchy on my computer. Not sure why. I'll try inkwells now.
After much experimentation I am using Hexographer for my campaign world map - excerpts below.
