Chopper War Map Rework

[PanzersEast]

I reworked the Map for Chopper War.....

[bayonetbrant]

I like the cross-hatch / quilt texture.  How'd you work that one up?

[Barthheart]

Yer a machine PE! Well done on all your work. O0

[Nefaro]

 O0

You gonna use similar terrain graphics for Thud Ridge?  8)

[GJK]

I certainly applaud the effort, but your hexes look elongated vertically which drives my OCD crazy.

Also, and this is personal taste but I gather that you are looking for opinions but personally one of my biggest pet peeves are fill patterns that noticeably repeat over and over as you have here.  It looks much too unnatural and well...photoshop generated.  I hate computer games that have tiled images as well by the way. And, unlike Brant, I don't care for the cross-hatch photoshop layer effect either - that too looks too unnatural.

I love the counters that you've done though!

[PanzersEast]

I certainly applaud the effort, but your hexes look elongated vertically which drives my OCD crazy.

Also, and this is personal taste but I gather that you are looking for opinions but personally one of my biggest pet peeves are fill patterns that noticeably repeat over and over as you have here.  It looks much too unnatural and well...photoshop generated.  I hate computer games that have tiled images as well by the way. And, unlike Brant, I don't care for the cross-hatch photoshop layer effect either - that too looks too unnatural.

I love the counters that you've done though!

I tried to stay in the confines of the authors map, so I did not have a lot of leeway on the hexes.

I understand about the repeated hexes, but they represent a movement modifier so they have to be the same to represent the modifier.  I will say, doing map graphics outside the normal 2d generic tiles are not easy.


PE

[Nefaro]

I certainly applaud the effort, but your hexes look elongated vertically which drives my OCD crazy.

Also, and this is personal taste but I gather that you are looking for opinions but personally one of my biggest pet peeves are fill patterns that noticeably repeat over and over as you have here.  It looks much too unnatural and well...photoshop generated.  I hate computer games that have tiled images as well by the way. And, unlike Brant, I don't care for the cross-hatch photoshop layer effect either - that too looks too unnatural.

I love the counters that you've done though!

You should see the original ones.  These are a big leap compared to those.

[PanzersEast]

O0

You gonna use similar terrain graphics for Thud Ridge?

Yep, that it the plan  O0

PE

[GJK]

You should see the original ones.  These are a big leap compared to those.

Agreed with you there.

I may of found the program here, but "DrawHexGrid" is a great little program that will draw any size hexgrid that you need and put it on a transparent layer for importing in to your favorite image editing program.  It's what I used on my last couple of maps:

http://cryhavocgames.net/Tutorials_Utilities.htm

[Nefaro]

You should see the original ones.  These are a big leap compared to those.

Agreed with you there.

I may of found the program here, but "DrawHexGrid" is a great little program that will draw any size hexgrid that you need and put it on a transparent layer for importing in to your favorite image editing program.  It's what I used on my last couple of maps:

http://cryhavocgames.net/Tutorials_Utilities.htm

Nice!

I figured there was some decent freeware out there somewhere.  But the one time I looked it was like finding a leaf in a jungle.

[PanzersEast]

You should see the original ones.  These are a big leap compared to those.

Agreed with you there.

I may of found the program here, but "DrawHexGrid" is a great little program that will draw any size hexgrid that you need and put it on a transparent layer for importing in to your favorite image editing program.  It's what I used on my last couple of maps:

http://cryhavocgames.net/Tutorials_Utilities.htm

I'll check that out... I usually hand draw or manipulate most.  I'll give it a look see.

PE

[Jack Nastyface]

so what do you use to create your counters and map work?  Photoshop?  Gimp?  Inkscape?  Or sumpin' else?

[weateallthepies]

A couple of other useful resources:

mkhexgrid is a command line tool for creating hexgrids with a number of options:

http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/

Also a boardgames plugin for InkScape which does hexgrids and has tools for counters and cards:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~perni/iboardgameexts/

[bayonetbrant]

buncha links just posted in the Game Forge / DIY section; they're from the CSW maps folder (which I 'moderate')

fell free to add to them.