These can be used together images made by the generator can be pasted into the terrain layer of the GIMP tool so that hexes can be changed, and rivers, cities, roads, text, etc. There are a few projects on my site, and Thorf has linked to two: the random wilderness generator and the GIMP hex editor. I'm interested in random map generation, particularly in the old TSR style. It's useful for quickly running through lots of samples, though, and once you find one you like the general look of the "Last seed" button can be used to re-generate it, and increasing the width and height will bring out more detail. There's not a lot of love around for the old style maps anymore, but this place looks promising.Įdited to add: The random hex map generator defaults to a small size, and the results often don't look good that small. I had been using the AKS Hex Mapper hexes in my projects, but it was only for lack of a better tileset - now, thanks to your work, I have a perfect tileset In fact, getting all those new hexes has allowed me to get started on something which I'd been wanting to do for a long time: adding different types of environment to the random map generator.Īnyway, this forum looks pretty cool. Thorf wrote:I gather that he's in the process of converting my hex art to be compatible with AKS Hex Mapper, which in itself may interest some of you here.